Le Buone Maniere: a participatory intervention by Davide Serpetti
DecentralisationCurated by Celeste
05.07.25
From July 6 to 15 – Visible from the outside and by appointment / Via D’Annunzio 18, Teramo
Le Buone Maniere (Good Manners) is a participatory life drawing session led by artist Davide Serpetti (L’Aquila, 1990), free and open to all. With contributions from Piotr Hanzelewicz, Marco Paleari, and Francesca Pieropan.
Le Buone Maniere is a collective performance that invites us to reconsider drawing as a tactile, immediate, and profoundly human experience. Guided by a group of artists, participants rely on their bodies to observe—one hand explores, the other records.
The title subtly alludes, with a touch of irony, to learned rules and the codes of “well-made art.” But here, good manners are overturned: the mark emerges from error, instinct, and a loss of control. The moment vision is suspended, new forms of listening arise. Perception expands, and drawing once again belongs to the one who makes it—not to some external ideal to be achieved.
Le Buone Maniere is an invitation to unlearn. To touch drawing as one touches a face. To rediscover, through contact, a more authentic form of truth.
The outcomes of the performance, along with traces of a shared moment between participants and the audience, remained visible inside the venue and in the street-facing windows in the following days.
