Officina della Scultura 2024: Sculptors' Studios Open Across Lombardy and Venice

The seventh edition of Officina della Scultura, curated by Marcella Cattaneo, runs through December 31, 2024, across Lombardy and Venice. The initiative opens sculptors' studios and archives to the public, including those of Piero Cattaneo, Gianni Grimaldi, Umberto Carrara, Gabriella Benedini, Paolo Gallerani, Giancarlo Sangregorio, and Fabrizio Plessi. New this year is the inclusion of Plessi's atelier on the Giudecca in Venice, thanks to collaboration with Fondazione Sangregorio. The program also features environmental art parks such as Parco di Taino (Varese), home to Giò Pomodoro's 1991 work "Luogo dei quattro punti cardinali" and Giancarlo Sangregorio's "Ruota di mola," and Parco di sculture di Ca' del Bosco at Erbusco (Brescia). Cattaneo emphasizes that the event makes accessible the spaces of plastic creation, disseminates sculptural languages and conceptual inquiry, and returns an often overlooked material and immaterial heritage to the community. The review connects places, people, and landscapes as symbolic spaces of cultural identity, transforming ateliers, environmental interventions, and private collections into learning sites that link art objects to their territorial origins.