A Cracking Art installation in Mantova (Italy) during SEGNI New Generations Festival.
An exclusive appointment in Italy, an international art event addressed to children and young people from 18 months to 18 yrs old. The event is dedicated to schools, families, and those who love theatre, the search and the languages of art. It involves an audience at a transgenerational and international level as it is addressed to a foreign audience as well.
Artists coming from all over the world who perform in shows, laboratories, art tours, and multidisciplinary performances in which music, painting, theatre, sculpture and dance are combined in a flowing contamination between arts and non verbal languages accessible to spectators of any nationality and age.
A Cracking Art installation in the Giardino del Manzoni of Gallerie d’Italia to celebrate 10 years since the realization of the giant crocodile
From the 27th of September to the 5th of November 2017, Gallerie d’Italia in Piazza della Scalla in Milan is the stage for a new installation from the Cracking Art collective. Born in Biella in 1993 with their army of colored animals, the group has invaded (peacefully) the many cities of the world- passing from America to Russia, Azerbaijan to China, through Belgium, France, Israel, and the Czech Republic.
In this continual passage, some animals still guard their newly discovered places in unexpected ways. This is what happened in 2007 with the red crocodile. After its exhibition at the Oriocenter and the Piazza della Scalla from the balconies of Palazzo Beltrami (the office of the then Councilor of Culture Vittorio Sgarbi), it became a part of the permanent collection of Intesa San Paolo in the Giardino del Manzoni, an integral part of the prestigious cultural pole of Milan.
The new collaboration between Gallerie d’Italia and the Collective pays homage to and celebrates the exact ten years since the birth of the gigantic and colorful reptile. The first to be invited to the special party (and those who will initiate the official installation), are his fellow animal friends who come to visit him. 70 brightly colored, re-generable polyethylene snails, wolves, meerkats, and swallows will be guests of the Milanese museum, animating the garden of great writer Alessandro Manzoni.
Thus, the garden, one of the greatest topoi and loci amoeni of novels and literature in general, continues to be the protagonist of a new tale.
Cracking Art, for over twenty years and with more than 400 installations, has always been creating contemporary urban fables. We adults can return as children for a few moments and learn a lesson from every story: the importance of seeing but also watching, listening but also hearing, and admiring the city with different eyes. In this way the streets, corners, and gardens, including Manzoni’s, will no longer be hidden paradises, but places discovered again and again.
Where:
Gallerie d’Italia – Piazza della Scala, 6 – Milano
Opening time:
ore 9.30am – 7.30pm (last entry ore 6.30pm)
Last night, the collaboration between Cracking Art and amfAR, international foundation for AIDS research, was renewed once again.
Following the giant snail and the giant rabbit, this year the giant crocodile was the protagonist of the benefit auction and was sold for a record amount of 50.000€.
The evening, accompanied by musical performances from Andrea Bocelli and Lion Babe, raised 1.4 million dollars in support of the Foundation.
The passion for cinema and love for Cavo have produced a peaceful and cheerful invasion of fuchsia crabs on the beaches and streets of the small village on the eastern tip of the Elba Island by the Cracking Art collective.
For the first time, the colorful Cracking Art animals landed on the Elba Island with an important mission: to raise funds to support the initiative to reopen the former Cavo cinema which has failed to survive the revolution Digital and has been closed and abandoned for years.
And so, in perfect harmony with the goal of urban regeneration, Cracking Art Crabs will be donated to those who will make a minimum contribution of € 20 for the cause of the new cinema in Cavo.
Installation of 50 wolves in the garden of Villa Durio at Varallo Sesia (VC).
There will be 103 colorful animals that will populate the Torino Outlet Village with the installation of Cracking Art. A close and entertaining meeting with Art.
Suricates raised on the hind legs with the muzzle tense in observation, as attentive sentries. Wolves with flocks. And then swallows, multicolored frogs and snails. The Turin Outlet Village will be invaded by a lively band of animals from 1 July to 30 September, thanks to the artistic intervention of the Cracking Art group, which has already painted squares, meadows and balconies in Italy and in the world with its plastic Art installations.
There will be 103 colorful animals that will populate the Torino Outlet Village with the installation of Cracking Art. A close and entertaining meeting with Art.
Suricates raised on the hind legs with the muzzle tense in observation, as attentive sentries. Wolves with flocks. And then swallows, multicolored frogs and snails. The Turin Outlet Village will be invaded by a lively band of animals from 1 July to 30 September, thanks to the artistic intervention of the Cracking Art group, which has already painted squares, meadows and balconies in Italy and in the world with its plastic Art installations
Installation at the Westquay Esplanade in Southampton (England) on the occasion of the public opening of the urban regeneration project of the space in front of the ancient city walls.
Regeneration Rione Sanità is the title of the installation realized in Piazza Sanità in Naples, on the occasion of the first Sky Arte Festival dedicated to the cultural regeneration. The Cracking Art works come into the houses and displayed on the balconies of the houses that overlook the square that will host concerts and cultural initiatives.
“Invasion de color” is the first installation of the Cracking Art artistic movement in Spain, on invitation of the Barcelona Designers Collective and hosted at La Roca Village of Santa Agnès de Malanyanes, (Barcelona). An event that brings together fashion and art in an installation dedicated to the creativity and color.
The installation consists of 40 works which have become the protagonists of the place. Snails, swallows, frogs and rabbits were chosen for their direct connection with the local culture, to create a real direct link with the surrounding space. Every work of art is a vehicle of meaning and specific messages, which were performed at specific times. The snail, with its regenerative burr, wants to inspire the improvement of a balanced lifestyle. The swallow is the journey and the encounter between nature and humans. The rabbit is the most representative animal of many fairy tales, is an animal that lives both domestic dimension to the wild; Cracking Art and the frog, an amphibian that does not like stagnant water, but prefers to shake it and make it dynamic and clear.
