Mahler & LeWitt Studios

Since 2010 the Mahler & LeWitt Studios association has been promoting a program of artistic residencies to Spoleto. Scheduled for Spoleto67 is an exhibition of Jonathan Monk's work (Torre Bonomo, June 28-July 14), including several ceramic sculptures made to Deruta during his residency at Mahler & LeWitt Studios. Monk's work-a tribute to figures such as Sol LeWitt, Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman and Lawrence Weiner-recalls the procedural strategies typical of conceptual and minimalist art of the 1960s and 1970s and enriches them with a personal or playful twist. Also signed from Mahler & LeWitt Studios is the exhibition Umru: tales from a hydrosocial landscape, held in collaboration with the Musei Civici di Spoleto at the Museo del Tessuto e del Costume (June 29-July 14). The project is the result of a meeting between artist Cecilia Ceccherini and geographer Alberto Valz Gris, who have created a large tapestry of interconnected symbols and a sound installation with multiple narratives around the concept of a hydrosocial landscape, a term that describes water as a multifaceted set of human and nonhuman beings, historical transformations and unpredictable futures.