Emotional intelligence Stories of empathic connections - Civic Gallery
The exhibition “Emotional Intelligences” explores the theme of emotionality as a form of social intelligence ...
The exhibition “Emotional Intelligences” explores the theme of emotionality as a form of social intelligence fundamental to human relationships. In an age when artificial intelligence is increasingly central and society often seems indifferent, emotional intelligence is an indispensable resource to connect deeply with others.
Inspired by the pioneering text Emotional Intelligence by psychologist Daniel Goleman, the exhibition reflects on the importance of empathy, understood as the ability to read the feelings of others and establish relationships based on mutual understanding.
Through a selection of works of art created from the 1990s onwards and coming largely from the Mart Collections, the exhibition creates unprecedented connections and stimulates transversal readings, in a constant dialogue between contemporary artistic practices and psychological sciences. The exhibition also includes site-specific interventions by young artists, along with loans from local galleries.
The exhibition is the result of a collaborative project involving students of the Master's Degree in Cultural Heritage of the University of Trento, as part of the Exhibition Workshop programme. Emotional Intelligences is therefore an exhibition-laboratory experimentally curated by students Lisa Maturi, Ginevra Perruggini, Giuseppe Scalia, supported by Swami Agosta, a student of Cognitive Sciences. The group has conducted empirical research that is embodied in a contemporary cultural proposal. The work was coordinated by Denis Viva, Professor of Contemporary Art History (UniTn) and Gabriele Lorenzoni, Curator and Head of the Civic Gallery of Trento (Mart).
The students' survey is particularly timely: the present era is characterized by growing individualism and the development of artificial intelligence that inevitably raises ethical and social questions, as well as technological ones.
Artists on display: Silvia Argiolas, Cristian Avram, Gabriele Barbagallo, Matteo Basilé, Carlo Benvenuto, Giulio Boccardi, Giusi Campisi, Silvia Camporesi, Chuck Close, Giuliana Cunéaz, Arnold Mario Dall 'O, Rä Di Martino, Olimpia Ferrari, Fischli & Weiss, Daniele Galliano, Paola Gandolfi, Silvia Giambrone, Giulia Iacolutti, Alex Katz, Misaki Kawai, Marco Lodola, Lucia Marcucci and Lamberto Pignotti, Eva Marisaldi, Zana Masombuka, Eliseo Mattiacci, Gisella Meo, Marzia Migliora, Ottonella Mocellin, Tracey Moffatt, Angelo Demitri Morandini, Zanele Muholi, Gabriel Orozco, Nicola Pellegrini, Thomas Ruff, Michele Tajariol, Enzo Umbaca, Corrado Zeni.
At the Galleria Civica, the exhibition aims to propose individual and collective reflections and to promote active citizenship through a rich programme of outdoor events organised in collaboration with the Municipality of Trento.
