BOOKED OUT Workshop for school classes: Memories in concrete
24.01.2025, 11:00
The workshop is booked out
About the Cretto di Gibellina (the large crack in the town of Gibellina) by Alberto Burri
For secondary school students (grades 7-10)
with Loana Rasbach, Isabella Rein, Anny Ambrosia Garcia and Daniel Kauffeld
Duration: 1.5 hours
The Sicilian town of Gibellina and the lives of its 5,000 inhabitants were destroyed by an earthquake in 1968. On the ruins of the former town, Alberto Burri created the so-called Cretto (crack), the largest work of landscape art in the world. The monumental work preserves the remains of the dramatic history and events of a city. The artist has covered the entire 90,000 square metre hill with a layer of white cement. Burri’s vision was to design this place as a silent memorial to the destroyed city and its inhabitants. And at the same time to create a place of beauty and grandeur that honours the respect and grief of the people. Here, art has fulfilled the task of healing a wound. To protect and preserve the wounded.
In this workshop, we will focus on artistic practices that help to revive the past and reflect on it. Through sculptural design with concrete, the children and young people will actively engage with the themes of farewell and remembrance.
Please note that the workshop will take place in German.
About the workshop series for school classes in the exhibition The Presence of Absence in cooperation with the Institute for Art Education at Justus Liebig University Giessen
The workshops for children and young people are organised in cooperation with the Institute for Art Education at Justus Liebig University Giessen. Under the direction of Tobias Becker, the students of his project seminar offer a rich programme specially developed for the Frankfurter Kunstverein.
The starting point will be individual works of art or exhibition objects from the fields of art, natural history and archaeology. The workshop leaders will familiarise your class with various materials and techniques that illustrate the themes of the exhibition. Through the practical use of materials such as clay, plaster, soot, but also stargazing apps, children and young people are introduced to numerous topics through vivid sensory impressions, through feeling and touching.
The workshops are about learning to read traces and to perceive them as the starting point for imagination and stories, but also for logical reasoning. In the workshops, the students will also creatively design signs and traces themselves in order to experience and reflect on the world that surrounds us.
Our motto is to know the past in order to imagine the future and thus positively change the present.
Further information here.