The cycle of workshops for all launched by Palazzo Grassi - Punta della Dogana becomes digital and is conceived in collaboration with exceptional guests working in various fields of contemporary creativity.
The public is invited to take part in the activities by following simple instructions, meant to stimulate unique points of view on their own daily life. Each week, the activities are published on the website and on the Instagram e Facebook accounts with the hashtag #palazzograssiatyours.
Emiliano Ponzi presents Memorandus and invites to reflect upon the question of memory and desire.
Emiliano Ponzi
He is an Italian illustrator and author. He has received numerous honours including the gold and silver medals of honour from the Society of Illustrators, New York, the Gold Cube from the Art Directors Club of New York, award recognition from American Illustration, Print, How International Design. He has written and illustrated 3 books: The Journey of the Penguin, The Great New York Subway Map for the MoMA in New York and American West, first published in The New Yorker as a daily dairy and later as a book by Corraini. He writes a column for The Washington Post.
Memorandus
‘Memories are fragments of past experiences and, as time passes by, they define who we are. The act of remembering is the act of telling. It is a tool always at our disposal to remember the face of people we have met, or that we wish we had met, and the emotions that we carry within us. There is a boundary line when memory becomes fiction, daydream. Starting from the experience of the lockdown, which forced us to keep our distances from others, and guided by our memory and wishes, we create 6 portraits of people we wish we could meet. In our imagination we can meet anyone we like. Likeness is not important, what matters is that the portraits trigger an emotion.’ Emiliano Ponzi
Day 1 - Not far
