From icons of school in the pre-covid era to a tool of reflection on post-covid didactics, this is the new challenge of the old, double school desks, thanks to art.
Today, the double desk trib[ut]e, opens to visitors in Guidonia (Rome) at the ISS Via Roma. The project features 24 installations that use of double school desks as art objects. Cuts, damage, cracks, and chewing gums attached underneath: the desks have become media to reimangine desks in a new perspective, through the eyes of art [see news: Classroom Lesson].
Magritte, De Chirico, Malevich, and even Piero della Francesca and Maurizio Cattelan … the desks allow visitors to move around, lose themselves and reflect on school yesterday, today and tomorrow. The “double desk trib[ut]e is an open-air didactic installation developed to provide students with an alternative area to classrooms lessons integrated with digital tools in which the desks are the very object and tool of a story that starting from art history offers a wide variety of transversal connections,” explains Drawing and Art History Professor Roberto Ianigro, who developed the project with students, alumni and other teachers. The students chose to leave a sign, a trace of their passage by doing what is usually not allowed: writing or drawing on the desks.
Roberto Ianigro is also participating in the “Our School” Project [see the interview by Ilaria Gaudiello: The Art of Contamination].
Un'Installazione Didattica Effimera all'Aperto
IIS Via Roma 298, Guidonia
Inauguration: March 4, 2021
Press note: Un tributo ai vecchi banchi doppi
