SUNDAYS AT THE MUSEUM

On the occasion of the temporary exhibition QUILLING – Creative Devotions from cloistered monasteries (5 April to 2 September 2012), the Education Department of Pinacoteca Agnelli has created a series of workshops on the theme of paper. During  a guided visit visitors willd discover the paperoles, marvels of paper, votive objects produced in monasteries by the end of the 17^th and 18^th century, so named for the peculiarities of decoration made of paper with watermarks. The Education Department offers educational workshops for schools of all levels, for families and children aged 4 and up during the Sundays in the Museum and for adults.
The main theme of all activities is to rediscover the beauty and preciousness of paper, rolled, curled, folded as in the works on show, that can give surprising results giving a new precious look to a material considered poor.

Appointments are provided every Sunday at 16.00. Parents can accompany children during the activities or leave them with the educational worker.

An Easter Card
April 1 and April 8

An educational activity lwith the subject of Easter, made with the technique of papier roulés, curls of paper.
During the activity the children will come up objects such as jewelry, medallions, swags and ornamental compositions of Baroque inspiration.

Contemporary paperoles
April 15, May 6 and May 27

After a visit to the temporary exhibition Quilling the students will be guided to create shrines to contemporary acts to immortalize the new contemporary icons. We will consider the icons from the worlds of mass media (cinema and pop star), creating the sacraments, with curls of paper accompanied with various materials including sequins of different colors.
References
Baroque decorations of the seventeenth century, Nan Goldin, Aubrey Beardsley, Gustav Klimt, Agnus Dei, sacramentals and relics of the late 18^th century.

Curls of paper
April 22 and May 13

After analyzing a number of works in the exhibition, students will experience the technique of paperoles to create floral and faunal elements, real and imagined. You can give rise to a choral work built with different landscapes and characters or you can create a three dimensional object with rolls higher and others lower than other color or monochrome.
References
Works in the exhibition, baroque and fanciful landscapes.

Book of Wonders
April 29 and May 20

The children, after viewing the works in the exhibition and the permanent collection, will create a small artist’s book, as a sacred book, with some images seen previously as a visual memory. Through a collage of colored paper, crayons, paperoles and graphics pages they will create a visual book, with references to figures and floral colors of Matisse, which can be expanded at will.
References
Works in the exhibition Quilling, works from the permanent collection, Bruno Munari.

Our FIDELITY CARD offers, cyclically, the free admission to families who participate in workshops.
For all information please call 011.0062713 or write to info@pinacoteca-agnelli.it