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ALDO CARPI, TRENTO LONGARETTI
Teaching in Academy

July 10, 2011 –  11 September, 2011
Opening hours: Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, holidays: 10-12 am / 3.00 - 7.00 pm
Free entrance

Inauguration: Saturday 9 July 2011 at 6.30 pm

Pressrelease

The great tradition of Italian art academies is based on their teachers’ personalities: they shaped the various generations of new artists along the years.
Teaching in an academy goes way beyond having young people learn the mere techniques, it is actually about artistic ethics and encouraging the students to find their own inner world and express it in a personal way.
The great teachers stimulate the new artists’ self-awareness that, in turn, became social contribution.

Aldo Carpi and Trento Longaretti are two of these excellent teachers. Originally bound by a teacher-student relationship, in time they developed a continuous exchange based on mutual respect and affection.
Aldo Carpi was born in 1886 in Milan, where he also died in 1973. From 1930 he was a professor in Brera. He suffered through the difficulties of war and was even a prisoner in Mauthausen. When he finally went back to Milan he was appointed as director of the academy till 1958.
Trento Longaretti was born in Treviglio in 1916 and lives in Bergamo. He was one of Aldo Carpi’s students in Brera. In 1953 he became painting teacher and director of Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, where he remained till 1978.
Many famous artists from the second half of the 1900’s studied in their schools.

This exhibition pivots on the continuity of teaching by Carpi and Longaretti and the way they interpreted their jobs as a mission meant to hand down to their students the intimate taste of artistic freedom.
Seven students of Carpi’s (Arnaldo Badodi, Bruno Cassinari, Ennio Morlotti, Trento Longaretti himself, Roberto Crippa, Gianni Dova and Cesare Peverelli) and seven of Longaretti’s (Giuseppe Belotti, Lucia Innocenti, Mino Marra, Alfa Pietta, Maria Clara Quarenghi, Attilio Steffanoni and Bruno Visinoni) draw an evolving path that moves from the 1900’s to the world of today.

Designed by Claudio Rizzi, coordinated by Ad Acta, sponsored by Regione Lombardia, Provincia di Varese and Comune di Maccagno, catalog published by Publi Paolini; fifty works connect tradition and modern times in this exhibit.