Projects
We enhance inclusive culture.
We design and realize moments, events, exhibitions, workshops that want to promote an inclusive culture, starting from art.
We are a pair of polyhedral lenses, a tool to look at reality from different points of view, so as to make it richer and clearer.
Exhibitions
13-15 October 2023
ArtVerona,
Verona
A palimpsest of events with a strong artistic, scientific and social value dedicated to art and neuroirregularity, aimed at enhancing artistic expression in all its manifestations, declinations and divergences, within the event artverona 2023.
The talk “Connective art: the faculty of differences” between Maestro Michelangelo Pistoletto and Dott. Leonardo Zoccante; the dialogue between the two will guide the public in a confrontation that, starting from the concept of the Third Paradise and the latest publication of the Master “The formula of creation”, comes to a new interpretative model of the neurodivergent artistic faculties, exploring the relationship between Art and Sciences of Mind.
An international collective exhibition of inclusive art “Connective Art”, curated by Matilde Nuzzo and Francesca Malverti, which showcases the works of Richard Boulet, Dianelis Massip Lopez, Mario Pellegrini.
A performative installation with the Italian artist Patrizio Vanessi, who for many years has realized experiences of connection between the artist himself, other artists and the public. For the occasion, Vanessi will create together with artists of Connectivism (Lisa Perini, Efren Perlotto, Thomas Tessari, Lorenza Cielo) a large canvas, which will be cut at different times of the three days of the event and shared with the public of artverona, as an emblem of integration, inclusion and sharing,
September 2021, Spazio Thetis, Arsenale Nord di Venezia
April 2022, Biblioteca Frinzi of Verona, on the occasion of Euritmie, scientific-cultural review on the theme of autism spectra
October 2022, Castello Visconti di Somma Lombardo
A collective exhibition of 11 artists, which has more than 30 works including ceramics, charcoal and sketches, portraits and self-portraits, paintings on canvas, some from private collections.
With the participation of the Atelier Espressivo “I Pitturatori” and Richard Boulet.
The selected works represent a path of identity research: often inspired by the experiences and relationships of everyday life, the artists transform into matter their feelings, memories, friendships, loves. A world that desires to emerge strong in its complexity, which manifests itself through expressive and aesthetic forms that return to the origin of artistic creation and reveal its essence.
April 1st- 23rd, 2023
Hall of the Threehoundred Palace of Treviso
Civic Library of Verona
Two places particularly symbolic for the city’s collective growth hosted the first exhibition by LENSart.
The Civic Library is perhaps the guardian venue of culture and knowledge par excellence. A place of culture, knowledge, meeting, dialogue and growth in the life of the city of Verona.
The Hall of the Threehundred Palace, a historic building dating back to the 12th century, is also a place of meeting, discussion and growth in the life of the city of Treviso, where the City Council still meets today.
April 21st – June 30th, 2023
AMO Bistrot, Verona
Promoted by Ippocampo APS
Pairing or contrast: this is the first meaning of Dualities, which sees in dialogue two pairs of artists and artists: Albert and Mr Heart, in the first room, Lisa Perini and Lisa Binato, in the second.
Duality of form and matter, of meaning and support. Artists and artists remind us that one does not exist without the two, that we are strongly and indissolubly linked to the comparison with the other, that the different is nothing but the necessary condition to make the existence of each being shine, in all its uniqueness, peculiarity and beauty.
Performances
19 September 2023
Presidenziale Estate of Castelporziano
Connection, interaction, dialogue, generation, collectivity, responsibility, society, science, art: there are many key words that could be associated with the socially engaged art initiative that was inspired by the Third Paradise on 19 September at the Presidential Estate of Castelporziano, and which saw the participation of neurotypical people, neuroatypical, children and adults. The performance, which aims to dissolve the paradigm of distrust towards the different, is proposed by Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto Onlus and Connectivism in the framework of the Quirinale Contemporary project of the Presidency of the Republic.
Vanessi in collaboration with Lisa Perini, Efren Perlotto, Thomas Tessari, Lorenza Cielo, Marco Carbogno, Richard Boulet
October 2023
A double participation: on the one hand the artists, who share the canvas, on the other the collector, who will have only a part of the whole.
Literary Kaleidoscopes
A reading tip, a list of books that touch on, explore and cross the themes addressed by LENSart artists.
Like a kaleidoscope, they show all the colors, shapes and facets a person can have and the change, the continuous morphing, transforming and taking on renewed life of life itself.
Our invitation is to get out of your personal mindset and select that one title you would not usually choose.
This is a partecipated list: we thank everyone who contributed in compiling it and we invite you to recommend new titles.
We are based in Veneto, but our minds are open to Italy and abroad.
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What is meant with inclusive art?
By inclusive art we mean a series of projects, for now mainly related to the visual arts, which aim to promote and give visibility to artists whose personal characteristics have been a reason for exclusion and marginalisation.
We believe in the beauty of diversity, and that precisely in those characteristics lies the value through which to approach and understand their art.
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How do you select the artists?
For years we have been searching for and visiting ateliers of independent artists, collectives, associations and cooperatives.
We constantly meet very different realities in search of expressiveness that has not yet found its way to emerge.
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How was born LENSart?
LENSart was born from the encounter between Euritmie and La ragione c’entra poco, a scientific-cultural review and a group exhibition dedicated to the enhancement of ‘outsiders’.
From this encounter we decided to join forces and skills to give life to an ambitious and far-reaching project: LENSart.
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What do you like the most?
The smiles and joy on the faces of the artists when they see their work on show is our greatest satisfaction.