Marcello Smarrelli, Artistic Director of the FEC, was a guest at the 4th Family Business Congress, organised by the Centre for Family Business at the University of Economics in Kraków.

Fondazione Ermanno Casoli announces the winner of the 24th edition of the Premio Ermanno Casoli, one of the most prestigious international awards dedicated to the relationship between art and business. This year’s prize has been awarded to Arianna Pace. The artist will create a site-specific artwork for the EMC FIME plant, a company within the Elica Group, which for over forty years has been dedicated to the production of electric motors for the heating, ventilation and household appliance markets. The project is curated by Marcello Smarrelli, the Foundation’s artistic director.

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Title: Esseri a malapena immaginabili (Barely imagined beings)
Artist: Numero Cromatico
Curator: Marcello Smarrelli
Commissioned by: Elica
Number of participants: 18
Location: Fabriano
Year: 2026

On Tuesday 17 March at 5.00 pm, the Ermanno Casoli Foundation will host the opening of Esseri a malapena immaginabili at Elica’s headquarters in Fabriano. This site-specific artwork was created by Numero Cromatico in collaboration with 18 members of the Elica Group, and is curated by Marcello Smarrelli.

On Tuesday 3 March at 5.00 pm, the Ermanno Casoli Foundation presents Esseri a malapena immaginabili (Barely imagined beings) at the Elica Auditorium in Fabriano: a conversation open to the public with the artist collective Numero Cromatico, introduced by Artistic Director Marcello Smarrelli and dedicated to the collective’s research at the intersection of art, psychology and neuroscience.

Giovanni Termini, 2025.

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door”

On Wednesday 29 October at 5.30 pm, the Ermanno Casoli Foundation will present A che gioco giochiamo at the Elica Auditorium in Fabriano: a public talk exploring the relationship between art, play and education.

The Ermanno Casoli Foundation is delighted to announce the launch of the FEC Digital Collection, a new platform dedicated to the online viewing of works created as part of the Ermanno Casoli Prize, available at www.fecdigitalcollection.org

The entrance to Fabriano Industry has been transformed into a large-scale mural: over 150 young people from the city’s Future Campus, working alongside the artist Edoardo Piermattei, have created “Studio per cementare uno spettro” (Study to cement a spectrum).

Confindustria Ancona and Fondazione Ermanno Casoli present Studio per cementare uno spettro (2025, pigmented cement, 340 x 180 cm), a collective artwork created by artist Edoardo Piermattei (Ancona, 1992) as part of the workshop Ho conosciuto Giotto e Giotto ha conosciuto me, curated by Marcello Smarrelli, for the fourth edition of Future Campus Fabriano. The site-specific, permanent work was designed for the Fabriano Industry headquarters and will be inaugurated on Wednesday, July 16 at 5:00 PM.

Fondazione Ermanno Casoli announces the inauguration of “Inhalatorium”, the site-specific work by Cezary Poniatowski created for the 23rd edition of the Premio Ermanno Casoli, curated by Jakub Gawkowski and Marcello Smarrelli. The artwork will be unveiled on June 14 at the Elica Group Polska plant in Jelcz-Laskowice, Poland, as part of the company’s 20th anniversary celebrations.

Fondazione Ermanno Casoli announces the winner of the 23rd edition of the Premio Ermanno Casoli, one of the most important international awards dedicated to the relationship between art and business. The prize has been awarded to the Polish artist Cezary Poniatowski who will create a site-specific artwork for the Elica Group Polska plant, Elica’s facility in Jelcz-Laskowice, Poland, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. The project is curated by Jakub Gawkowski and Marcello Smarrelli.

(IT) Anna Galtarossa, 2024

“Piuttosto che essere normale, scegli di essere felice.”

(IT) Il nostro Direttore Artistico, Marcello Smarrelli, ha partecipato alla giornata di studi “Economia della Bellezza, Arte e Cultura asset strategici di competitività”, tenutasi il 30 ottobre 2024 presso Villa Fürstenberg a Mestre. L’evento, promosso da Banca Ifis e dalla Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea del Ministero della Cultura, ha esplorato il contributo dell’arte e della cultura come leve di competitività per le aziende italiane, anche attraverso la presentazione del report annuale elaborato dall’Ufficio Studi di Banca Ifis.