WE CHANGE EACH OTHER – SHILPA GUPTA – 2022

This workshop is part of Artivities for Young Minds, thought-provoking activities for children that have been conducted by Shilpa Gupta over the years in various venues.
Participants can spray sentences with intertwining languages onto papers and colour in what would be their ideal city to grow in! They learn to share a space, and to create with external input to develop their imagination.

YOU SEE ME – NARI WARD – 2022

Relating to the Sun Splashed series of Nari Ward, each child is invited to reflect on his own image. They question how they see themselves in the world and what they show to others.
During an excursion to a forest near the gallery, each participant will be invited in turn to pose in the middle of the vegetation, in order to take photographs. Hiding a part of oneself and making the other visible: this is also a way to master one’s image, but above all, to play with it.

DE BRIC ET DE BROC – PASCALE MARTHINE TAYOU – 2022

After seeing the works of Pascale Marthine Tayou, children are invited to recycle in order to create their own characters and imagine their lives.
On a small piece of carpet, they place the objects they no longer need in order to create a character seen from above. They watch the volumes flatten as they stand over their work. A photo is then taken to immortalize their production. Once it’s done, it’s time for them to pack it all up! They can create an infinite number of particular figures, using the same elements or swapping their materials with each other. They think about how simple shapes can evoke many things. They learn to look, to find beauty in the everyday, to reuse and to share.

And what, for example, am I now seeing ?
Collection Giulio Di Gropello - 2017

Does a contemporary work of art remain current? This project approaches this question.
The curatorial education team from the collection Giulio Di Gropello specifically looks into this question with schoolchildren. This exhibition has been planned and finalized with an educational purpose. At the start of the exhibition, each visitor is given a notebook where they can record their observations. These thoughts will then be brought together in a dedicated space for the atelier and it’s a tool to explore the dialogue between the public and the works.
The Giulio di Gropello collection exhibition was specially designed for students as an educational exhibition. It was developed in three distinct stages in which the artwork is revealed to whoever observes it: a silent visit, an audible visit and an educational visit.

Espèce d’espace - Anish Kapoor - Depuis 2014

Relating to the works of Anish Kapoor exhibited at the Moulin de Sainte-Marie, students work on the concept of space, both full and empty.
The tools to be worked with are words and the body, allowing the student to measure themselves against the monumentality of Kapoor’s work, its cavities and the size of the premises of the former Arjomari factory. Galleria Continua proposes this participative workshop in which the students will be the actors. To understand Kapoor's work, we try to establish a physical relationship with it. Through his installations, the artist places us in front of the void and the sensations it can cause. This emptiness is not an abstract concept for Kapoor, but a tangible sensation conveying loss of reference and stimulation. In front of the Kapoor, we realize that the body is an important means of understanding the world and that this means reacts in relation to space, an object or the other.

Ordos 100 - Ai Weiwei – 2013

What does this huge model represent? For this workshop, the students are invited to observe the work.
The houses that make up the work were designed by architects at the request of the artist although they were never actually built. Using graphic panels hung on the wall, children can find the houses in the model; one photo per child enables them to find the photo on the wall that corresponds to the designed house in the work. Then, using Kapla, each child will make a temporary individual model: the aim is to design a house in which one would feel at ease, a house invented and dreamed of. At the end of the workshop, like in Ai Weiwei’s work, each construction will be destroyed in order to allow the opportunity to create again.

Abi-Tanti - Michelangelo Pistoletto – 2013

Abi-Tanti La Multitude Migrante originated in 2000 at the Education Department of Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea.
It’s a worldwide project that questions the concept of identity and difference, the encounter, the other, the stranger, the foreigner through now more than 11000 humanoid forms. These can be characterized by their different external appearances, obtained by assembling diverse materials in many different colors, on a common wooden base similar to DNA and therefore evocative of the concept of family.
The idea of a migrant multitude alludes to the crossing of borders and the limits therefore imposed. The Abi-Tanti are made from a wooden base with elements to be assembled that are coated with different materials, colors and graphic signs in order to create new identities. It’s a collective game, a meeting place and a space for positive confrontation that finds itself in a public setting accessible to everyone.
For its edition at Les Moulins, the participants used Galleria Continua paper invites to dress their Abi-Tanti and to explore these concepts of identity, difference, meeting and the other.