In Florence, the former tobacco factory is being reborn thanks to the sustainability, creativity, and "Cura" of six young emerging artists (photos)

The "Artist Residencies" project allowed six young people, between the ages of 25 and 30, to spend six months inside the former industrial complex and create works that intertwine the site's history with the ongoing renovation. This process culminated in the exhibition "La Cura."

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redevelopment of the tobacco factory in Florence

Innovation, identity and community: these are the key words behind the rebirth of the ex Manifattura Tabacchi di Florence at the gates of the Cascine Park, an industrial complex comprising 16 pavilions, built between 1933 and 1940, on eight hectares of surface, and whose architecture bears the signature of Pier Luigi Nervi.

Recovery of the Tobacco Factory in Florence

Abandoned for eighteen years after a period of activity of about thirty years, thanks to a redevelopment and recovery project, the former tobacco factory will now be returned to Florentines and tourists as a place of innovation, crop e training but also e handicraftA community center open to all and with an eye on sustainability. By 2022, when the work will be completed, it will feature artisanal workshops and laboratories, a brewery, co-working spaces, exhibition and event spaces, small shops, and much more.

REDEVELOPMENT OF THE MANIFATTURA DISTRICT IN FLORENCE

A project that brings with it countless advantages also for what will become the new "Manifattura district” with the foreground Verde , sustainable mobility: there will be gardens e cycle pathsNew parking lots will be built and streets and squares will be redeveloped. A nursery school is also planned, along with plenty of dedicated meeting places for children.

 
 
 
 
 
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ARTIST RESIDENCIES AT THE FLORENCE TOBACCO MANUFACTURER

A new opportunity for the city but also for many young artists such as Matthew Coluccia, Stefano Giuri, Lori Lako, Mohsen Beghernejad Moghanjooghi, Gioele Pomante e Tatiana Stropkaioivà selected among the best students of the Italian art academies to take part in the first edition of the “Artist residencies”, a project that allowed them to live, work and exhibit their works inside the former industrial complex in Florence. A three-year initiative (Manifatturanaturacultura. 2018 – 2010. Care, Wonder, Harmony) promoted by Manifattura Tabacchi of Florence and curated by Sergio Risaliti, art historian and artistic director of the Museo Novecento in Florence.

Aged between between 25 and 30 years and four different nationalities (Albania, Iran, Italy and Slovakia), Gioele, Matteo, Lori, Mohsen, Stefano and Tatiana, as we read on Corriere della Sera in the journalist's article Jessica Chia, spent six months inside the former tobacco factory taking part in workshops with internationally renowned artists, architects, designers but also social researchers, writers, poets and directors. 

 
 
 
 
 
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SHOW THE CARE AT THE FLORENCE TOBACCO MANUFACTURER

A journey that began in September 2018 and resulted in the exhibition "The cure", the first artistic project to inaugurate the spaces of the former Manifattura Tabacchi.

Thanks to the possibility of taking advantage of accommodation within the former industrial complex, a scholarship and personal ateliers, the young emerging artists have had the opportunity to create works able to weave la history of the place renewal in progress. 

As explained on the project's dedicated portal, "Cura" means "care for the environmental context, the planet, the urban space, as well as for the body and spirit, for the conservation of heritage and innovation."

A clearly visible commitment in Women by Mohsen Beghernejad Moghanjooghi in which the “plants” were created by reusing the remains of the plaster scraped from the walls of the Tobacco Factory.

REDEVELOPMENT OF THE FLORENCE TOBACCO FACTORY

A real "neo-Renaissance workshop” the one recreated by young emerging artists inside the former industrial complex thanks to the “Artist Residencies”, as explained Sergio Risaliti, curator of the project.

The Artist Residencies will continue both in 2019 in that 2020 on the themes of Wonder and Harmony: meanwhile, until May 19, at Via delle Cascine 35, it will be possible to visit, free of charge, the exhibition “La Cura” by young emerging artists.

(In the'Cover image by Alessandro Fibbi, the six young emerging artists who took part in the “Artist Residencies” project, and artist Luca Vitone – Source: www.manifatturatabacchi.com)

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