Archivio Atelier Pharaildis Van den Broeck is pleased to present ACADEMY ROOM # 2 in collaboration with the students of the Department and School of Design of the Politecnico di Milano and curated by Anna Mazzanti and Matilde Marzotto. Monday 4th July 2022 at 6.00 pm students - Marco De Marchi, Elena Giusti, Lara Macrini, Chiara Riva - will preview the prototypes and sketches made in the last months in the archive in which, inspired by the artistic language of the Italian-Belgian artist Pharaildis Van den Broeck, they thought of a project reflecting on the idea of gadgets for the institution.

Starting from the idea of morphing, the students extrapolated from the paintings of Pharaidlis Van den Broeck about a hundred images of onions which, after a visual synthesis process, were used to simulate the natural growth cycle of this bulb. From this visual sequence a prototype of a flip-book was born, which through the simple gesture of scrolling through the pages visually recreates the life of the onion, from the bulb to the evolution of the sprout up to transform itself into the logo of the Atelier Pharaildis Van den Archive Broeck. The small book is accompanied by an audio track created ad hoc to evoke the sense of development and transformation that characterizes the vegetable and the artistic production of Van den Broeck.