EXHIBITION



EVENTS

Penelope Umbrico Penelope Umbrico
Tuesday 26 September 2023
6.30 PM
MAST.AUDITORIUM
ARTIST TALK

PENELOPE UMBRICO
LEARNING FROM EBAY

IN CONVERSATION WITH URS STAHEL

Umbrico will talk about her recent photo-based work which utilizes an archive of roughly 28,000 photographs of used objects for sale that she has collected over the past 10 years from consumer-to-consumer web platforms such as eBay, Alibaba, Craigslist and office liquidation warehouses. As an archive of this moment, the sheer volume of images render visible the monumentality of our Post-Internet consumer habits, and their effects on our environment.

Penelope Umbrico is an American artist. Her installations, video, and digital media works utilize search engines and web platforms as an expansive archive to explore the production and consumption of images. Umbrico’s work has been exhibited at Museum of Modern Art, NY; Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki; The Photographers’ Gallery, London; Benaki Museum, Athens; Pingyao International Photography Festival, China; Rencontres d’Arles, France among the others. She has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship.


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Massimo Recalcati - A pugni chiusi Massimo Recalcati - A pugni chiusi
Wednesday 27 September 2023
6.30 PM
MAST.AUDITORIUM
AUTHOR'S TALK

MASSIMO RECALCATI
A PUGNI CHIUSI

PSYCHOANALYSIS IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
(FELTRINELLI EDITORE)

A civil oration, a lucid account of the collective life of the last twenty years, an intense portrait of the problems of the contemporary world reread in the light of psychoanalysis.

"What world are we passing on as a legacy to the new generations?"

In this book, Massimo Recalcati reveals himself as a lucid and original commentator on our collective life of the last twenty years: the transformations of the family, the discomfort of youth, the irreversible decline of paternal authority, the widespread recourse to violence, scientism as a new form of religion, the hypermodern cult of the healthy body and well-being, the medicalisation of life, the narcissistic screen of social media, isolation and the melancholic urge to die in a world dominated by consumption and the celebration of the image, the economic crisis and the precariousness of work, the trauma of the pandemic and its impact on our existences, the horror of war and the patriarchal repression of the ayatollahs against women are just some of the themes tackled, along with the more directly political ones that concern the psychoanalytical portraits of the major protagonists of national and international politics of the last twenty years such as Berlusconi, Grillo, Renzi, Salvini, Mattarella, Draghi, Trump and Putin. In these pages, Recalcati offers the reader a passionate anthropological portrait of our country and the problems of the contemporary world.

Massimo Recalcati, one of the best-known psychoanalysts in Italy, is the Scientific Director of IRPA (Institute for Applied Psychoanalysis Research). In 2003, he founded the Jonas non-profit organization (Center for Clinical Psychoanalysis for New Symptoms). He writes for "la Repubblica" and teaches the Psychopathology of eating behavior at the University of Pavia and Psychoanalysis and Human Sciences at the University of Verona. He has published numerous books, translated into several languages, including: Portraits of Desire (2012), Jacques Lacan. Desiderio, godimento e soggettivazione (2012), Non è più come prima (2014), L'ora di lezione (2014) and Contro il sacrificio (2017). With Feltrinelli he has published: Il complesso di Telemaco (2013), Le mani della madre (2015), Il mistero delle cose (2016), Il segreto del figlio (2017), A libro aperto (2018), Mantieni il bacio. Lezioni brevi sull’amore (2019), La tentazione del muro. Lezioni brevi per un lessico civile (2020) and Pasolini. Il fantasma dell’origine (2022).

In collaboration with Coop Alleanza 3.0


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Trevor Paglen Trevor Paglen
Thursday 28 September 2023
6.30 PM
MAST.AUDITORIUM

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MAST!
The tale of 10 years (2013–2023) of Fondazione MAST through the eyes of the protagonists.

TALK

 

TREVOR PAGLEN
MACHINE VISION

IN CONVERSATION WITH URS STAHEL

After being one of the featured artists in the exhibition Industry, Now in 2015 and a speaker in the talk 'Geography of Communications and Surveillance', Trevor Paglen returns to MAST to illustrate and explore the hidden mechanisms in the technologies that precede the development of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision, and will recount unknown episodes in AI research.

From a Cold War AI expert employed by the CIA to pioneer facial recognition, to a series heart-wrenching experiments on kittens that gave rise to a strange theory of vision, and the controversial university initiative that sought to categorize all objects but inadvertently spiraled into a cruel nightmare, the stories illustrate the multifaceted impacts of these advancements. Through this journey, we will ask a series of fundamental questions: In an age of AI, what constitutes an image? How do we, and our technological counterparts, interpret it? And crucially, how do these technological shifts influence the fabric of our culture, politics, and everyday life?

Trevor Paglen is an artist whose work spans image-making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing, engineering, and numerous other disciplines. He has exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.; Fondazione Prada, Milan; the Barbican Centre, London; Vienna Secession, Vienna, and participated in group exhibitions at the MET, the Tate Modern, and numerous other venues. Paglen has launched an artwork into distant orbit around Earth in collaboration with Creative Time and MIT, contributed to research and cinematography to the Academy Award-winning film Citizenfour, and created a radioactive public sculpture for the exclusion zone in Fukushima, Japan. In 2016, he won the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. 


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EDUCATION

Visite guidate Visite guidate

GUIDED TOURS

FROM TUESDAY TO SUNDAY AT 11 AM, 3 PM AND 5 PM


Fondazione MAST is offering one-hour guided tours of the exhibition Andreas Gursky. Visual Spaces of Today (25 May 2023 – 7 January 2024), with free admission upon reservation for up to 15 people. The guided tours are in Italian.

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GUIDED TOURS EXTRA

WEDNESDAY AT 7.30 PM


Access to MAST during these hours is limited to those who have registered for the guided tour extra.

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For further information and bookings for groups of more than 15 people contact the Gallery Team:
workshop@fondazionemast.org - Tel. +39 342 7711557

 

 



FROM THE ARCHIVE


ANTEPRIMA, 2013
RA DI MARTINO
MAST.

An itinerary of images and sounds through the interior and exterior spaces of the MAST, this site specific video was realized by the artist Ra di Martino on the occasion of the opening.

director: Ra di Martino
performer viola da gamba: Rosa Helena Ippolito
cinematography: Alessandro Chiodo, Marco Martelli
sound: Enrico Ascoli
assistant director: Marcella Libonati

WHERE NEW INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND INDUSTRIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OFFER A CONTEXT FOR EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING ON INNOVATION AND THE WORLD OF WORK

Gallery

The Gallery is a space where industry and the world of work are described along a journey punctuated by technological exhibits, videoart installations and photographic images.

The MAST Innovation Gallery is an area for​ experiential learning focused on technology and innovation. Starting from some of Coesia Group’s technical solutions, the hands-on, multimedia itinerary offers visitors the opportunity to experiment and develop new knowledge.

The MAST Photo Gallery is an exhibition space that hosts temporary shows of photography on industry and work. The exhibition programme presents thematic and monographic projects taken from the MAST Collection, which includes over 5000 works, or on loan from other archives, international institutions and private collections. Each exhibition is accompanied by a programme of talks, encounters with authors and other public figures of the world of photography, films and videos, workshops for children.

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WHERE ONGOING TECHNICAL TRAINING PROGRAMMES OFFER COESIA EMPLOYEES AND STUDENTS OPPORTUNITIES FOR CONTINUOUS GROWTH

academy

At the Academy, the MAST Foundation proposes a variety of educational activities on the themes of technology and innovation, addressed to young people, local community - schools and companies – and to the collaborators of Coesia Group, in partnership with public institutions and other organisations.

The Academy occupies an entire wing of the MAST building comprising 8 classrooms of various dimensions, equipped with advanced technological systems.

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Progetto Expeditions Progetto ENTER/PRISE Summer School Smart Camp

WHERE CONFERENCES, SCREENINGS AND ENCOUNTERS WITH PROMINENT FIGURES OF THE WORLD OF CULTURE CREATE THE CONDITIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF CREATIVITY

Auditorium

The Auditorium seats 400 guests and hosts programmes of cultural events promoted by the Foundation or in collaboration with other institutions, conferences, meetings, Talks, lectures, screenings and concerts, generally related to the themes of the shows. 

The acoustics was specifically designed so as to be adjustable according to the type of event. State of the art technological solutions are available for the most diverse occasions.

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WHERE A WARM ATMOSPHERE AND CULINARY EXPERIMENTATION CREATE A MEETING POINT FOR CULTURE, ART AND TECHNOLOGY

Caffetteria

The Cafeteria is a convivial space available for guests of the Coesia Group, participants in Academy programs and visitors of the Gallery attending the various events.

This space, with a light and warm atmosphere, allows for social interaction. Three big bookcases dedicated to photography books are available for consultation.

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WHERE CHILDREN TAKE THEIR FIRST STEPS IN SOCIAL LEARNING AND BEGIN TO EXPRESS THEIR IMAGINATION

NIdo

The MAST Nursery School is an educational centre offering an innovative, high quality cultural experience. Its pedagogical project is focused on experiential learning in relationship-driven environments.

The Nursery, which is open both to the children of COESIA employees and the local community, accepts children aged 3 to 36 months, divided into three classrooms. The School hosts two classrooms: 3/4-year-olds and 5-year-olds. 3/4-year-olds and 5-year-olds.

The MAST Nursery School works in partnership with Reggio Children, Cadiai Cooperative and Giannino Stoppani Cooperative.

 

INNOVATION AT THE NURSERY SCHOOL

The MAST Nursery School puts research and experimentation with innovative content and processes at the centre of its educational programme, by focusing on a multiplicity of cultural languages offered to the children:

The sense of beauty
The architecture and furnishings of the Nursery School, as well as the materials used in the children’s activities, are inspired by beauty as a cultural and relational element.

Books
Picture books are a crucial educational tool for fostering children’s imagination.

Play
Toys enrich children’s perceptive experiences. These objects can change their function and identity and convey new possibilities, ideas and emotions, turning into learning tools.

English Language
A bridge for creative ways of communicating, English language allows children to connect and play together by learning new words and sounds.

Ateliers
Ateliers are places where children explore, discover and experiment. The MAST Nursery School offers different ateliers such as: atelier of colour, of sound, of nature and vegetable garden.

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WHERE THE PRINCIPLES OF MODERN NUTRITION BECOME AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ACTIVE AWARENESS

Ristorante aziendale

The Company Restaurant and the MAST.Wellness were designed as part of a unified project that integrates correct nutrition and physical activity. One of the driving values that inspire the project is the promotion of an idea of health connected to awareness, information and food culture in order to improve the quality of life.

 

The Company Restaurant for Coesia collaborators doesn’t simply offer meals, but it provides a place where the ingredients and their transformation into recipes respect the most recent dietary guidelines and are consistent with quality assurance indicators established by the Gruber Centre nutritionists who collaborate with MAST. 

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WHERE INNOVATIVE FITNESS TECHNOLOGY MESHES WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLES

Wellness

The Wellness Center is dedicated to Coesia Group employees and is supplied and managed by Technogym, world leader in fitness equipment. It offers a variety of services based on a model of integrated and holistic well-being.

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