Art as experience. Boccanera's Talks & Group Exhibition

Over the next few weeks at the Boccanera Gallery Milano, there will be more than just art.

At the Boccanera Gallery Milano, art comes face to face with psychology, law and literature. In the Milanese venue, gallery owner Giorgia Lucchi Boccanera celebrates her first sixteen years of activity with a group exhibition Art as experience to be inaugurated on 18 May, which will host the works of some of the artists with whom the gallery owner herself collaborated during the early years of her career. For three consecutive Wednesdays from 24 May to 7 June, art will also dialogue with other fields and disciplines thanks to the presence of a number of prominent guests.

Visitors to the gallery will thus have the opportunity to appreciate the works of Linda Carrara, Nebojša Despotović, Christian Fogarolli, Walker Keith Jernigan, Michele Lombardelli, Richard Loskot, Marcos Lutyens, Elena Monzo and Vlad Nanca.

The artworks chosen visually match with the three talks’ topics, where there will therefore be a dialogue between art and psychology, law and literature. Over the three talks, art will also provide the vehicle for a discussion about ourselves, communicating and expressing our emotions and ways of being.

The debate will focus on:

- Artistic research and community, with the Wurmkos Charity Foundation in the person of Pasquale Campanella in dialogue with Giusi Campisi (Wednesday 24 May);

- Art and freedom, with the participation of jurist Daria de Pretis, judge of the Constitutional Court of the Italian Republic and vice-president since January 2022 (Wednesday 31 May);

- Art and literature, with the preview presentation of the latest volume of the Ultima publishing project edited by Tommaso Di Dio, dedicated for the first time to visual art. Author Tommaso Di Dio, photographer Flavio Pescatori and artist Linda Carrara will all be present (Wednesday 7 June).

“I have long cherished the idea of recreating an environment where a community of culture lovers might come together, where we could converse not only about art, but also about current cultural and social issues. The gallery can serve as an informal place where a broader public may be brought together and where art becomes a vehicle for meeting, comparing and debating with specialists from various backgrounds so as to satisfy the most diverse range of curiosities and fields of interest,” – this is how the project came about, in the words of Giorgia Lucchi Boccanera.