We Earth, Art on Climate Anxiety

February 03, 2025 / Davide Ragazzi

We Earth, Davide Ragazzi, work in progress 3, climate anxiety, eco-anxiety, 2025 — Davide Ragazzi, We Earth 2025, work in progress, phase 3, acrylic color on paper. Climate anxiety, Eco-anxiety

Art on climate anxiety in young people by Davide Ragazzi

Work in progress

We Earth 2025

The core of Davide Ragazzi’s exhibition, currently underway in Genoa at Leonardi V.idea, dedicated to Young People’s Climate Anxiety and Eco-Anxiety, is the installation We Earth 2025, conceived by the artist as a work in progress.

For the first time, the artist has exhibited the initial phase of a work, which he usually does not show to the public. On the day of the vernissage, the installation was presented as 9 modules on paper with a black graphite drawing; each work by the artist begins with a similar drawing, then covered with paint, but has never been shown in an exhibition until now.

The drawn modules, the initial phase of the installation, leave the gallery, travel from the old city to the new one and return painted to the gallery. The young people who collaborate with the artist on the installation work in a protected place, the artist’s studio. Thanks to the creative activity and moments of dialogue with the artist, the young people have the opportunity to overcome Climate Anxiety, Eco-Anxiety and formulate new perspectives of judgement and ideas for the earth of the future.

The exhibition is receiving many positive comments from visitors:

“The paintings are very beautiful and emanate vibrations of tranquillity” [M.B.]

“It is nice to see the progress of the installation and the empty spaces. With the explanation given by the curator, the meaning of the work is well understood” [O.T.]

“I have no doubt that when it is finished it will be beautiful, but I must say that as work in progress it has a particular charm. The empty part is full of hope [A.G.]

The visit to the exhibition continues until February 15, from Thursday to Saturday, from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Each week a phase of the work will be exhibited.

On February 15, on the occasion of the finissage, the installation will be complete.

Davide Ragazzi, “We Earth”, Leonardi V.idea, Genoa, 2025

Conception, curation, criticism, exhibit design: Enza Di Vinci

Production: Davide Ragazzi Art Studio

Organization: Leonardi V.idea

Coordination: Roberto Rustichelli

© Davide Ragazzi
© Enza Di Vinci

Vernissage: Friday, January 17, 2025, 6:00 p.m.
Opening: from January 17 to February 15, 2025
Days and Hours: from Thursday to Saturday; from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m

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We Earth

January 12, 2025 / Davide Ragazzi

WE EARTH

On Friday 17th January, at 6pm, in Genoa, at Leonardi V.idea, the exhibition “We Earth” by Davide Ragazzi opens. The event is part of an international cultural event created by the artist Davide Ragazzi, called “Future Earth Projects”, consisting of exhibitions, user experiences and public presentations on the theme of Climate Anxiety and Eco-Anxiety in young people. The artist uses live art and work in progress as a creative tool to mitigate these particular forms of anxiety.

The first of these projects, “Future Earth. Young People Creativity on Climate Change was carried out in Venice in 2022 and was awarded during the 10th edition of the “Climate Chance” competition, organized by Shylock University Theater Center, sponsored by UNESCO, Ministry for Ecological Transition, CMCC Foundation, WWF Italy, Legambiente and ISDE. The second, “We Earth”, will be created in Genoa, Italy.

The heart of both projects is a large installation painted on paper, in acrylic colors, created by the artist together with young people from different countries, aged 16 to 24.

In the exhibition “We Earth” a large installation on paper divide into 9 modules, work in progress phase and 6 works, created between 2019 and 2021, will be presented to the public.

The large installation will be proposed with some unfinished modules, on January 17, in the vernissage. The incomplete modules will leave the exhibition venue and will return completely painted during the opening days of the exhibition. The artistic completion will be carried out, in the artist’s studio.

The young people who will participate in the artistic creation together with the artist Davide Ragazzi are: Fressia Antonella Huaman Castilla, Tetiana Karevska, Leonardo Paulo Mansilla Echevarria, Miia Nesh, Federico Panetta, Simone Pascuzzi and Anastasia Sazhina.

Other works on display were created by the artist during years of coexistence with the state of emergency declared by the Italian state to combat the spread of the Covid 19 epidemic.

“In these works,” says Enza Di Vinci, curator of the exhibition, “the pictorial gesture represents the relationship between the Oceans and the Earth and dialogues with the darkness of Space, rendered by the artist with a particular mineral black color; tiny brights dots enliven it to symbolize the vital element that always remains, even in the face of a negative or uncertain future; the light in the darkness”.

“In the work We Earth (2020) the horizon seems to create an absence, as if the globe were observing itself. It makes you wonder: how was the Earth or how is it? Waning Earth or rising Earth? An open and ongoing artistic work that stimulates research in the field of the visible, inviting us to imagine our destiny” (Leonardi V.idea/Art studio).

Davide Ragazzi, We Earth, 40×40 cm, acrylic colors on canvas, 2020

Vernissage: Friday, January 17, 2025, 6:00 p.m.
Opening: from January 17 to February 15, 2025
Days and Hours: from Thursday to Saturday; from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m

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