The Archivio Atelier Pharaildis Van den Broeck is pleased to present REENACTING THE ARCHIVE a six-month program of initiatives aimed at enhancing the figure of the Italian-Flemish artist and fashion designer Pharaildis Van den Broeck and his work through the involvement of different types of public in the fruition and production of new cultural contents.

The program will be articulated from 10 June until the end of the year in various appointments.

From 10 June to 16 July 2022 the first part of the exhibition focus REENACTING THE ARCHIVE - which gives its name to the entire program - is a selection of unpublished paintings created by the Italian-Belgian artist between 1994 and 2014, archive materials produced during her work as a fashion designer between 1975 and 1994 and the books that Van den Broeck has collected throughout his life. Curated by Barbara Garatti, the project aims to underline the developments and changes that have taken place in the artistic language of the artist and fashion designer to whom the archive is dedicated. Visitors will be able to retrace the transition from one discipline to another and at the same time investigate the changes that have taken place in his artistic production.

The exhibition leads to the discovery of both the artistic sensitivity of Pharaildis and the characteristics of the atelier where the artist worked in the last period of his life and which still retains the traces of these transformations. The initiative is also a moment to discover how his Atelier Archive is a unique place to reactivate a recent past in dialogue with the present. The evening of Friday 10 June joins the Archivissima 2022 Night of the Archives with the extraordinary opening from 18.30 to 21.00 and free guided tours.