BOOKET OUT Workshop for school classes: Drawing with smoke
24.01.2025, 11:00
The workshop is booked out.
For secondary school students (grades 7-10) on the Delocazioni by Claudio Parmiggiani
with Jonathan Heil and Leopold Geißler
Duration: 1.5 hours
In the 1970s, the painter Claudio Parmiggiani began his series Delocazioni (Displacements): Paintings in which the outlines of absent objects are drawn through the use of fire and smoke. They are created by soot deposits in a fire chamber. Parmiggiani’s unique technique is reminiscent of the photographic process of the photogram, in which objects are placed on light-sensitive paper and exposed to light so that their outlines appear as a negative print.
How can soot and smoke be used to depict something? In this workshop we will find out together. We will explore the question of what it means to use ephemeral materials such as smoke and soot to create something lasting that bears witness to transience and memory.
In the workshop, the group will explore Parmiggiani’s method and create their own works of art. Using candles and ceramic tiles provided by the Frankfurter Kunstverein, the participants will experiment and create images with soot.
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.