Indovarsi

The Fondazione has at heart to accompany young artists for the development of the carier and projects.

The Fondazione has imagined Indovarsi, a 15-day artistic workshop for the 5 recipients of the WONDERFUL! Art research program 2024 1st edition – Maria Manetti Shrem, of the Museo Novecento, Firenze (Italy). The partnership between the Museo Novecento and the Fondazione was born from the desire to extend the historical and artistic links between the cities of Florence, Nemours, and its neighbor Fontainebleau into the present. These links forged between the crown of France and the Medici family date back to the Renaissance and are marked by the handing over of the Duchy of Nemours by Francis I to Giuliano de’ Medici in 1515.

A few weeks before their final exhibition in Firenze, the four visual artists Friedrich Andreoni, Lucia Cantó, Benedetta Fioravanti, Giovanna Repetto and the curator Benedetta Casini, came to throw themselves into a new space, that of the Picardeau and its territory, to connect with it in a spontaneous creative impulse.

The dense program of the workshop was kept secret until the last moment. It offered long immersions in nature, such as the Fontainebleau forest and the rivers, visits to the local major sites : the Château de Fontainebleau, the Musée de Préhistoire d’Île-de-France or the Musée Départemental des peintres de Barbizon. A collective sound workshop with artist and sound designer Vincent Tordjman, as well as an encounter with the artist duo Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain (Marcel Duchamps price nominees 2024). By the end of these fifteen days, the artists and the curator produced videos, sound work, and performances presented to the public during an ephemeral event at the Picardeau, headquarters of the Fondazione Claudia Cardinale.

It is in homage to this relationship that art has helped to weave between these territories, that the Indovarsi workshop borrows its name from the neologism of the Florentine poet Dante. In his immense work, the poet uses the Italian vernacular for the first time, to the detriment of Latin reserved for scholars, punctuating his text with invented words. Appearing at the end of the last lines of Paradise from The Divine Comedy, in the face of the unbearable radiance of the ultimate vision, indovarsi is composed of the preposition in and the adverb dove, literally meaning “to put oneself in the where” – a way of suggesting the mystery of the incarnation, “to give place” rather than to take place. Through this poetic gesture, Dante sets in motion his questioning and our ability to let the “where” become oneself. It is through this prism that the Fondazione Claudia Cardinale has taken hold of indovarsi, as a living, active call, which sets in motion and gives rise to the very desire for momentum, the need to tend towards this “where”. It immerses into the reader like an instant soluble solution.