The artists have opened their studios, private places and generally inaccessible to a diverse audience, creating opportunities for informal dialogue and discussion on contemporary artistic practices.
After the second year of scheduled calendar, the project maintains the possibility to organize free tours with the artists involved in both editions. Reservation required, groups of at least 8 people.
With a selection of artists born between the 50s and 80s, the project traces a broad overview of current research art: painting, photography, video, installations, performances, public art projects and research in the field of music and sound.
The project acts as an interface between the artistic production of the area, its residents and cultural operators, also from international contexts, creating connections with the network of contemporary art.
The mediators involved in the art project to assist the artists during their visits, were selected after a training course dedicated to graduate and undergraduate students from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and at the Faculty of Humanities (address historical and artistic) of the University of Florence, Siena and Pisa.
The video documentation of the meetings was made by: ISIA – Institute for Industrial Arts in Florence and the Department of Art History at the University of Pisa.
Open Studios is part of toscanaincontemporanea 2010 sponsored by the Tuscany Regional Authority.
Taking part in the project, in conjunction with Prato’s Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, are: the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, the CCC Strozzina, the Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, the EX3 Centro per l’arte contemporanea di Firenze, the “Lo schermo dell’arte” cultural association and the SUC – Comune di Firenze.