Michela Rondinone

Michela Rondinone graduated in sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bari, she develops research centered on play, on the primordial gesture and on essential sign, exploring different materials and languages to investigate playful, poetic and fantastic imaginaries.

She collaborates with the Dioguardi Foundation, with which she realized the project Cantiere a regola d’arte, a videomapping on the construction site of the emerging new headquarters of the Academy of Fine Arts of Bari, and conduct the Cantieri-animati (as part of the Cantiere-evento format), workshops for children within construction sites, transforming work spaces into playful and creative enviroments. She also leads the project Re-writing the everyday (Ri-scrivere il quotidiano), participatory creative writing workshops based on notes found in the street, which invite teenegers and young adults to invent stories, rewrite reality and experiment with language. She curated the video-scenographies for the show EH, OH – Marching for the Peace by the theater company IAC (Integrated Arts Center), combining graphic and narrative elements to create immersive and interactive enviroments.

Her practice is transverse: from sculpture to drawing, from videomapping to stop motion, often integrating materials like clay and plasticine into figures and objects that evoke poetic imaginaries. Her projects aim to tranform places, materials and situation into active and participatory experiences unprecedented paths between the observer, space and work.