Elena Mazzi talks about her project for Elica and Fondazione Ermanno Casoli in this limited-edition publication, produced by the artist herself in collaboration with Boîte. Inside the book, you will find a conversation between Marcello Smarrelli, curator of the project and FEC Artistic Director, and the winner of the XVII edition of the Premio Ermanno Casoli award.

HOW CAN CONTEMPORARY ART GENERATE INNOVATION IN THE COMPANY?

In this book, through FEC projects with artists, trainers and companies, the authors articulate a working Method, born from a decade of experience in the field, which documents the effectiveness of the collaboration between the art world and the business company world.

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Desirescope was born from the North Star, which has always been a point of reference for travelers on Earth. It is an ideal telescope created to find our deepest wishes lost in the meanders of everyday life: who knows if looking through it will helps us to not lose ourselves anymore.

Leonardo Petrucci, Desirescope, 2019

Friday, September the 20th in Fano, Francesco Casoli – Elica’s President and Marcello Smarrelli – FEC artistic director, will be guests of the Center for Economics and Territory Studies to talk about FEC activity and to discuss the working Method born of decades of experience, which documents the effectiveness of the collaboration between art and business.

In September, the appointment with E-STRAORDINARIO for Kids # 7 will returns. This year with Bianco-Valente and their workshop “The place where I live”, curated by Marcello Smarrelli.  Stay tuned!!

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On Wednesday 12th of June 2019, our artistic director Marcello Smarrelli will take part at the meeting entitled “The sustainable city. Bank’s foundations  for a new reality”, offered entirely by the world of Foundations. The event, curated by Fondazione Carifac and open to the public, is part of  the UNESCO CREATIVE CITIES CONFERENCE 2019 programm and it will be held starting at 15.00 at the Oratorio della Carità of Fabriano.

www.unescofabriano2019.org

On Tuesday, 14th of May, our artistic director Marcello Smarrelli will conduct the talk “The form of error” with the artist Nicola Samorì at the Urbino Academy of Fine Arts.

The Ermanno Casoli Foundation continues the collaboration with the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan with a classic that is now in its fourth edition: HAND, the workshop by Francesca Grilli, which will be held tomorrow with the Master’s students in Arts Management Master.

On Monday, the 6th of May in Villa Blanc in Rome, our artistic director Marcello Smarrelli and Elica President Francesco Casoli participated, being part of  an  exceptional guests group, at Appointments with ingenious. Art over the centuries: the reasons for an Italian success, the important conference organized by Luiss Guido Carli with the aim of enhancing Italian excellence in the art sector.

THE RELAY
by Patrick Tuttofuoco
Premio Ermanno Casoli
20^th-anniversary Special Edition
Curated by Marcello Smarrelli
OPENING
SATURDAY 13^th APRIL | 5:00 pm | SERRA SAN QUIRICO
Santa Lucia monumental complex

Hands that give, hands that receive, hands that become the metaphor of exchange, of the gift, of the prize, of the feelings that bind human beings, hands that follow one after the other, like the generations, like life itself. Stay tuned!

“I imagined Italy as a staircase in the middle of the Mediterranean, over which different peoples have historically climbed, in different historical periods, to then go to Europe. This episode that continues inexorably, has allowed the meeting between different peoples who made our country unique. ”

Pietro Ruffo, Italy of migration, 2018

Presentation of the book Innovare l’impresa con l’arte. Il metodo della Fondazione Ermanno Casoli (Innovating enterprises through art. The Fondazione Ermanno Casoli method)

Friday, 2nd November 2018 at 4 pm

ARTISSIMA – INTERNATIONAL FAIR OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF TURIN

“Oval” Pavilion – Book Corner via Giacomo Mattè Trucco, 70 – Turin

Marcello Smarrelli – FEC artistic director – participates at the What’s Art for? What is the purpose of art today? talk. The research-action path, conceived and curated by Catterina Seia, was launched at ArtVerona 2016 with Anna Somers Cocks, director of The Art Newspaper.

Friday 12 October | 12.30 pm | ArtVerona – Veronafiere

ELENA MAZZI at the 24Ore Business School of Milan with MASS AGE, MESSAGE, MESS AGE
Mass age, message, mess age with Elena Mazzi
Curated by Marcello Smarrelli
Thursday 13^th September 2018
with the students of the 24 Ore Business School of Milan

Thursday 6th September 2018
at the Elica headquarters in Fabriano
with 50 children aged between 6 and 10

Take part in the #SwitchTheRules photo contest launched by Elica and Fondazione Ermanno Casoli!

Sometimes, to find the right inspiration, you just need to change perspective!

Until 16^th September 2018

E-STRAORDINARIO for ISTUD Foundation

ACCIDENTI
a workshop by Alessandro Dandini de Sylva
curated by Marcello Smarrelli

Milan |Wednesday 25^th July 2018 | Asap Hub

FONDAZIONE ISTUD at Asap Hub

(IT) Il tuo 5×1000 a sostegno dell’arte contemporanea C.F.91029340428

Elica and FEC present
Labics | Visionair
Curated by Marcello Smarrelli

16^th-28^th april 2018
INTERNI Exhibition House in Motion

Università degli Studi di Milano – Cà Granda
Via Festa del Perdono, 7
20122 Milan

Soon for sale the book
“INNOVARE L’IMPRESA CON L’ARTE. IL METODO DELLA FONDAZIONE ERMANNO CASOLI”,
by Deborah Carè, Chiara Paolino, Marcello Smarrelli
Preface by Pier Luigi Celli

A multi-voice tale on the art-business relation, focused on the ten year experience of Fondazione Ermanno Casoli.