The Golden Age

The Golden Age
In the presence of Lucio Fontana's fireplace and in respect of Atelier Borsani architecture, Atelier dell'Errore (AdE) presents a red monolith (Red Idol) and a black monolith (Black Idol). Two sculptural idols of the AdE pantheon that cover the extremes of the representable, from the ‘beyond-figurative’ to the conceptual approach. If Red Idol hosts the gold leaf icon of a dragon-like being inspired by the ‘Sangiorgionesque’ genelaogy of Fontana's ceramics on a monobloc of AdE-tex (a technical fabric in cotton and american tape designed and made by AdE for the exhibition at MassimoDeCarlo), Black Idol condenses its iconoclastic energy into a single block of pure graphite that symbolically contains within itself the degree zero of every pencil drawing past and future. Freestanding instead for the Idolone Lanternorato, a huge creature in gold leaf on paper and stretched on canvas. As a corollary to this sacred and silent conversation, some reverent minor deities from AdE's Golden Age, where the archaic technique of gold leaf, free of all conceptualisation, is reborn in AdE's ‘beyond-zoological’ figuration.

Atelier dell’Errore (AdE-Atelier of Mistakes) is an artist collective dedicated to visual and performing arts based in Reggio Emilia (I). Founded in 2002 by the artist Luca Santiago Mora who today leads the collective of 11 neurodivergent young artists and it's a non-profit art studio. AdE's practice spans drawing, painting, sculpture, photography and performance. The artistic process is guided by two core rules: animals are their only subject matter, and during the process nothing is ever erased, preserving the transformative potential of every so-called ‘mistake’. Since the collective’s establishment the Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia (I), has hosted AdE as an ongoing project.