BOOKET OUT Workshop for school classes: Fossils of the future – We create a personal archive with colours
13.12.2024, 11:00
The workshop is booked out
About the painter Claudio Parmiggiani
For secondary school students (grades 7-10)
with Tokessa Pangert and Emma Hartmann
Duration: 2 hours
In his series ‘Delocazioni’ (Displacements), Italian painter Claudio Parmiggiani focuses on the absence of things. His pictures show white shadows of objects – such as bottles or books – whose outlines have been created by smoke deposits in a fire chamber. The soot covers the surface of the panel. Where once there was an object, the surface remains white. His pictures are metaphors for the passing of time and memory. The soot covers everything present, just as dust settles over time.
The aim of the workshop is to stimulate the imagination of children and young people to consider their own point of view from the perspective of future people. What will remain of our present time in the future? What traces will we leave behind? What does this tell the people of the future about us? If we look at everyday objects as fossils of tomorrow, what do they say about us? How could they be discovered and interpreted in the future? Can objects that we love and consider vital become archaeological finds of the future?
Together we will create small, individual archives that will lead us into a dialogue about time, memory and stories. Using artistic techniques, the group builds ‘fossils’ from objects.
The group works on templates that form shapes of favourite objects, which are applied to an image carrier using spray paint.
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.