Dopo Nambur, la mostra personale inaugurata lo scorso ottobre,
e I Talismani Fischianti, il laboratorio per bambini tenutosi a novembre, IUNO prosegue con Giulia Mangoni l’indagine sul selvatico attraverso Raccolto d’Autunno, una passeggiata guidata dalla stessa artista per la campagna intorno a Isola del Liri e pensata come ideale conclusione del suo progetto espositivo e laboratoriale.
L’attività si propone come un approfondimento pratico dei temi elaborati da Mangoni nell’inedita serie di opere esposte negli spazi di IUNO.
Il topinambur, pianta infestante di origine sudamericana, oggetto della sua ricerca e della sua recente produzione artistica, sarà infatti al centro di una sessione collettiva di raccolta di erbe spontanee che si svolgerà nella campagna circostante la casa dell’artista in Ciociaria.
Accompagnati dai botanici / agronomi  Francesco Tomaselli e Valentina Vecchio, fondatori dell’azienda agricola Fibreno Officinali, i partecipanti verranno introdotti alla storia e all’utilizzo delle piante spontanee autoctone dotate di proprietà benefiche.
Dopo un pranzo preparato dalla cuoca Margherita Soriani con ingredienti autunnali di origine vegetale provenienti dagli stessi luoghi della passeggiata, Giulia Mangoni condurrà alcuni esercizi di disegno Gestalt ideati per favorire la libertà creativa e la manifestazione di un selvatico personale, rispondente alle proprie attitudini espressive.
Alternando esercizi di carattere introspettivo all’esplorazione della natura circostante, l’esperienza di Raccolto d’Autunno, al pari delle opere di Mangoni, intende costituire una sorta di identità o complementarità tra paesaggio esteriore e interiore, tra dimensione ambientale ed emotiva.

Giulia Mangoni è un’artista italo-brasiliana la cui pratica ruota attorno all’etica del ritorno; è interessata a creare interventi orchestrati attraverso la lente della pittura al fine di decostruire nozioni di memoria e identità legate a specifiche geografie e comunità decentralizzate. Il suo lavoro si sviluppa attraverso modalità visive di narrazione personale, spesso frutto di un dialogo a più voci, le cui influenze, relazioni e contributi differenti aiutano a creare lavori che solidificano temporalmente questo processo di raccolta e disseminazione di conoscenze in continuo divenire. Attualmente, Mangoni continua ad approfondire la sua ricerca sul tema dell’appartenenza ad un territorio familiare attraverso la collaborazione con artigiani, agronomi e allevatori di specie autoctone, applicando le metodologie delle sue ricerche locali in terre Ciociare e partecipando a progetti in regioni diverse a contatto con il luogo e i suoi abitanti.

Nata nel 1991 a Isola del Liri, FR, Mangoni è cresciuta tra Italia e Brasile e ora è tornata a vivere e lavorare nella sua città natale. Mangoni ha un Foundation Degree in Art & Design presso la Falmouth University of the Arts (2011), una laurea in pittura (Hons) da City & Guilds of London Art School (2014) e un MFA dal programma SVA Art Practice a New York City, (2019). Negli ultimi anni, Mangoni ha partecipato a mostre a livello nazionale ed internazionale. Tra le personali: Una Boccata D’Arte, a San Lorenzo Dorsino, Trentino Alto Adige, un progetto di Fondazione Elpis, Galleria Continua e Threes Productions; Bits & Cream. Metabolizzazione d’Archivio, ArtNoble gallery, Milano; From the Island of Liri, Dreambox Lab, New York. Tra le mostre collettive: Ladder to The Moon, Monitor Gallery, Roma; VIVERE DI PAESAGGIO, APALAZZO gallery, Brescia; Zeitgeber (donatore di tempo), ArtNoble gallery, Milano; The New Abnormal, Straperetana, Pereto. Nel 2020 Mangoni ha partecipato al programma di borse di studio presso CASTRO Projects a Roma, con la borsa di studio Scovaventi Italian Fellowship.

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After Nambur, the solo exhibition which opened in October, and I Talismani Fischianti, the workshop for children held in November, IUNO proceeds, along with Giulia Mangoni, in its investigation of the wild through Autumn Harvest, a walk led by the artist herself through the countryside around Isola del Liri, which was conceived as the ideal conclusion to her exhibition and workshop based project.
The activity is as a hands-on exploration of the themes developed by Mangoni in the unprecedented series of works exhibited in IUNO's spaces.
In fact, Jerusalem artichoke, a herb of South American origin and the subject of the artist’s recent research and artistic production, will be the focus of a collective moment in which the audience will pick wild herbs that grow in the countryside surrounding the artist's home in Ciociaria.
Accompanied by botanists Francesco Tomaselli and Valentina Vecchio, founders of Fibreno Officinali farm, participants will be introduced to the history and use of native wild plants endowed with beneficial properties.
After a lunch prepared by cook Margherita Soriani with autumn plant-based ingredients gathered in the same spots the walk is held, Giulia Mangoni will lead Gestalt drawing exercises intended to foster creative freedom and the manifestation of a personal wildness, responding to one's expressive aptitudes.
Alternating between introspective exercises and exploration of the surrounding nature, Autumn Harvest, like Mangoni's works, is intended to constitute a kind of identity or complementarity between outer and inner landscape, between environmental and emotional dimensions.
 

AUTUMN HARVEST
A walk with Giulia Mangoni

After Nambur, the solo exhibition which opened in October, and I Talismani Fischianti, the workshop for children held in November, IUNO proceeds, along with Giulia Mangoni, in its investigation of the wild through Autumn Harvest, a walk led by the artist herself through the countryside around Isola del Liri, which was conceived as the ideal conclusion to her exhibition and workshop based project.
The activity is as a hands-on exploration of the themes developed by Mangoni in the unprecedented series of works exhibited in IUNO's spaces.
In fact, Jerusalem artichoke, a herb of South American origin and the subject of the artist’s recent research and artistic production, will be the focus of a collective moment in which the audience will pick wild herbs that grow in the countryside surrounding the artist's home in Ciociaria.
Accompanied by botanists Francesco Tomaselli and Valentina Vecchio, founders of Fibreno Officinali farm, participants will be introduced to the history and use of native wild plants endowed with beneficial properties.
After a lunch prepared by cook Margherita Soriani with autumn plant-based ingredients gathered in the same spots the walk is held, Giulia Mangoni will lead Gestalt drawing exercises intended to foster creative freedom and the manifestation of a personal wildness, responding to one's expressive aptitudes.
Alternating between introspective exercises and exploration of the surrounding nature, Autumn Harvest, like Mangoni's works, is intended to constitute a kind of identity or complementarity between outer and inner landscape, between environmental and emotional dimensions.
 

Giulia Mangoni is an Italian-Brazilian artist whose practice revolves around the ethics of restitution; she is interested in creating interventions orchestrated through the lens of painting in order to deconstruct notions of memory and identity of specific geographies and decentralized communities. Her work is developed through visual modes of personal narrative, often resulting of a multi-voiced dialogue, where different influences, relationships and contributions help to create works that temporally solidify the process of gathering and disseminating knowledge. Currently, Mangoni works on the theme of belonging to a specific territory activating collaborations with artisans, agronomists and breeders of native species, employing the methodology developed through her research in Ciociaria and participating in projects in different regions in contact with the place and its inhabitants.
Born in 1991 in Isola del Liri, FR, Mangoni grew up between Italy and Brazil and has now returned to live and work in her hometown. Mangoni has a Foundation Degree in Art & Design from Falmouth University of the Arts (2011), a BA in painting (Hons) from City & Guilds of London Art School (2014) and an MFA from the SVA Art Practice program in New York City, (2019). In recent years, Mangoni has participated in exhibitions nationally and internationally. Solo exhibitions include Una Boccata D'Arte, in San Lorenzo Dorsino, Trentino Alto Adige, a project of Fondazione Elpis, Galleria Continua and Threes Productions; Bits & Cream. Metabolization of Archive, ArtNoble gallery, Milan; From the Island of Liri, Dreambox Lab, New York. Group exhibitions include: Ladder to The Moon, Monitor Gallery, Rome; LIVING OF LANDSCAPE, APALAZZO gallery, Brescia; Zeitgeber (donor of time), ArtNoble gallery, Milan; The New Abnormal, Straperetana, Pereto. In 2020 Mangoni participated in the fellowship program at CASTRO Projects in Rome, with the Scovaventi Italian Fellowship.