Ettore Guatelli was an eccentric, multi-faceted character: an artist who didn’t realise he was one. His work was a homage to everyday life in the countryside of northern Italy. And now, Stefani Cognata and Educarte’s initiative brings Ettore Guatelli back to life.
Ettore Guatelli was a dedicated collector, a schoolteacher, an eccentric character who loved farming and the farming life. He collected more than 100,000 everyday objects over the course of his lifetime, now contained in Ettore Guatelli Museum, his former home.
An initiative by young curator Stefani Cognata and the Educarte Ettore Guatelli association brings him back to life in the cultural project Guatelli Contemporaneo: a series of events, meetings, exhibitions and workshops studying and rediscovering the life of this eccentric character from the Po Valley, starting in the month of October.
Guatelli Contemporaneo began with the exhibition "Incantesimi per Oggetti Spigolosi", inaugurated on October 15 at Villa Soragna in Collecchio.
Created by artists Matteo Sclafani and Giacomo Gerboni and curated by Stefani Cognata, the exhibition explores Guatelli’s "Bosco delle Cose" (Forest of Things) in a contemporary light, producing unreal new stories from the world the great collector created.
Francesco Cibati
Location: Villa Soragna, Collecchio, Parma, Italy
Design: Educarte, Stefani Cognata, Made in Art, Spazio Entropia
Artists: Matteo Sclafani and Giacomo Gerboni
Curator: Stefani Cognata
