The Space
A place that did not exist in Milan
Milano Painting Academy is not an academy that can only be used during working hours, but it is the place where the community of artists can have artistic experiences, exchange knowledge, build relationships and grow individually and collectively.
The sharing of learning is a fundamental educational aspect of the MPA method, as it allows moments of comparison and exchange between students of different ages, backgrounds and courses, who should measure themselves directly in work, in practice with live models and under natural light, or controlled light beams.
A place like this in Milan has not existed for many decades, which probably contributed to reducing painting to a solitary practice, an individual act often disconnected from the community. The mutual enrichment that derives from the sharing of knowledge and experiences is one of the objectives of the Milano Painting Academy; we would like to restore to the practice of teaching art, and to the city of Milan, the concept of a “cultural gathering”.
Why Milan?
Milan is the city that, more than any other in Southern Europe, has been able to equip itself with a contemporary art system in relation to large museums, foundations and public and private collections.
The partners of the Milano Painting Academy, and the relationship system that binds them to the most important stakeholders in the Milanese metropolitan area, have deep connections with the network of galleries, dealers, fairs, districts and museum organisations active in Italy and internationally.
Until now, being in Milan was the best way for an artist to oversee the places where contemporary art develops its dynamics and exchanges at the highest speed, density and intensity.
Thanks to Milano Painting Academy, this relational richness is now added to a knowledge and teaching experience that represent a deviation and important added value, because they put back into circulation in this ecosystem an inimitable know-how in making art and in teaching it with methods and approaches that go against the mainstream of traditional and contemporary academies.
Why the Stadera district
We chose the location partly based on the desire to bring the quality of this painting school into the reality of this popular district of Milan, in accordance with the principles of spreading culture and promoting art that have always inspired and guided the activity of the Maimeri Foundation.
We have found a multifunctional space that we have radically renovated and refurbished to ensure optimal diffusion of natural light, which is an essential condition for two of the training pillars of the MPA method, the daily practice of painting and observation of “real life” models.
A suggestive location that will host professional Academic Courses, Seminars, Workshops, Events, and Exhibitions to enable and promote talents, kick-start an artistic-cultural fusion with the city, and create positive, good quality relationships around the theme of beauty and art.
