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La Diseducazione al Reale is an installation by Andrea Mastrovito designed for Cinema Arena – Spazio Culturale, on the occasion of FestivalFilosofia 2025.
The artist recreates the physical environment of a school class with a teacher’s desk and desks, each decorated with allegorical designs that recall the twelve elementary subjects. The desks thus become reworked images, conceptual and symbolic representations that stimulate reflection on the theme of art linked to teaching and education.
The big screen of cinema is transformed into the blackboard protagonist of this ideal lesson between visual arts, history, literature, music and geography. Project Nysferatu (2018), an animated film entirely designed by Mastrovito that reinterprets the famous Nosferatu, setting it in a modern New York. This work becomes the manifesto of a ”mis-education”, understood as an experience which – just like adversities or the joys of life – profoundly questions those who observe, stimulates personal growth and incites us to never stop learning.
The traditional image of the class, rich in presences and materials, is subverted: in its place, the artist proposes a progressive emptying of space. That void takes shape through erased or cropped visual parts and through overlapping signs that at the same time eliminate and rewrite. In this way, new possibilities open up for reading and interpreting reality.
Andrea Mastrovito (Bergamo, 1978), artist, director and book author, trained in Italy and lives between Bergamo and New York.
His path focuses on drawing, alternating studio work with installation and performance interventions.
He won the New York Prize in 2007, the Moroso Prize in 2012, the Ermanno Casoli Prize in 2016, the Italian Council in 2019 and in 2022 he won the PAC – Plan for Contemporary Art, awarded by the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities, with Villa Adriana and Villa d’Este, Rome.
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La Diseducazione al Reale
Curated by Marcella Manni
At Cinema Arena – Spazio Culturale (Modena) in collaboration with Galleria Michela Rizzo (Venezia).
September 19-20-21 2025
Arena – Spazio Culturale | Viale A. Tassoni 8 | 41124 Modena
