SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITY - Workshop with The Sartori Family

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!

Opportunity to work and learn with the pioneers

of CONTEMPORARY MASK SCULPTING!

MANIFESTO POETICO is very pleased to announce that our students and contributing artists
can now access a scholarship to SARTORI'S INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP:

“THE ART OF THE MASK IN COMMEDIA DELL’ARTE”

SARTORI FAMILY
WORKSHOP

The 36th Edition!

Directed by Paola Piizzi and Sarah Sartori

19th June to 21st July 2023
Centro Maschere e Strutture Gestuali
Abano Terme (Padua), Italy

ABOUT

A century of artistic activity of the Sartori Family.

Paola Piizzi - Director Museo Internazionale de la Maschera [About the Museo]

The work of the Sartori dates back to the post-war period (1945-47) when the Italian intellectual world renewed its desire to recover the origins of its cultural history. So the Italian sculptor Amleto Sartori started a long period of experimental research on the masks of the Italian Commedia, its characters and the construction techniques forgotten for more than two centuries, which was to bring him to the re-discovery, though it would be more precise to say the re-invention, not only of the ancient manufacturing technique for the leather masks but also of its artistic significance. Amleto died at the height of his activity, but he left his son Donato a heritage of cultural and technical knowledge which, keeping up the tradition of the ancient "bottega dell'arte", is carried out and perfected by adapting it to the needs of contemporary society. Donato started an intense collaboration with Barrault, Eduardo de Filippo, Strehler, Lecoq, Dario Fo and Peter Oskarson, creating masks for their performances.

Donato dealt with experimental research in the field of sculpture and the graphic arts: his works can be found in various Modern Art Museums in Venice, New York, Tokyo, Mexico City, and Paris.

In 1979, together with the scenographer Paolo Trombetta and the architect Paola Piizzi, he founded the CENTRO MASCHERE E STRUTTURE GESTUALI. Set up as a multi-disciplinary research group, the centre studies the various ethnological, anthropological and performative aspects which involve the reality of the masks as a whole and, in a progressive evolution, it stretches beyond the creation of body masks and gestural structures and brings us right up to the environmental masking or urban masking.

The Centre has held exhibitions, workshops and performances in the United States, South America, Canada, Japan, China, Russia, Africa, Indonesia and throughout Europe.

Sarah Sartori - Director Centro Maschere e Strutture Gestuali [About Centro Maschere]