Cracking Art journey through China has reached the last destination. After Shanghai, Wuhan and Chongqing Cracking Art zoo of giant animals has arrived to Hongqiao, one of the largest district of the city of Shanghai.
The exhibition opening ceremony has seen a parade of wolves, frogs, snails, swallows, meerkats and tropical fishes: until May 14, more than 380 artworks will be part of a spectacular installation in the prestigious district of the city.
Cracking Art animals will light up the nights with bright colors bringing a magical wave of participation in the domestic airport and railway station area of the city. In fact, the location choice fits completely the movement philosophy, built on a creative practice that bases its installations on the direct interaction with artworks.
Cracking Art journey through China has reached a new destination. After Shanghai and Wuhan Cracking Art zoo of giant animals has arrived to Chongqing, one of the largest city in the world with over thirty-two million inhabitants.
On Saturday, November the 25th, the exhibition opening ceremony has seen a parade of wolves, frogs, snails, swallows, meerkats and tropical fishes: until the end of January 2017, more than 380 artworks will be part of a spectacular installation in Yuzhong District, the prestigious heart and main business district of the city with its skyscrapers that are among the highest in the nation.
Cracking Art animals will light up the nights of Chongqing Tiandi with bright colors bringing a magical wave of participation in the most populate area of the city. In fact, the location choice fits completely the movement philosophy, built on a creative practice that bases its installations on the direct interaction with artworks.
From October 29 until January 15 Cracking Art giant animals zoo will invade Palladio Shopping Mall in Vicenza.
Cracking Art is an artistic movement founded in 1993 with the goal of changing the history of art through a strong social and environmental commitment that, combined with an innovative use of plastic materials, evokes the close relationship between nature and artificial reality.
Recycling plastic means to get free off toxic destruction which devastates nature, as well as creating plastic artworks means to communicate through an original and joyful language in addiction to pay strong attention to our planet.
Cracking Art colorful animals has landed in almost 400 places all over the world: from Bangkok to Moscow, from New York to Brussels, from Cleveland to Shanghai but also Milan, Rome, Florence, Turin, Naples until reaching Vicenza with this new initiative.
Almost 300 artworks representing wolves, frogs, snails, meerkats and swallows will bring a wave of joy and life to the shopping center spaces with the goal of changing the traditional way of looking at art through a direct contact with the audience: anyone who will enter Palladio Center during the exhibition period will have the opportunity to meet our artworks and interact with them.
In a few hours Cracking Art will participate to TV Sports Awards 2016, the prestigious fund-raising event organized to support Play for Change Foundation initiatives around the world.
The TVSA brings together sporting legends, high profile guests and executives from the sport media industry, while providing a platform to raise funds for PFC. The funds raised from the TVSA will help PFC to provide more opportunities for children and their communities. Play for Change has already helped thousands of children in some of the most deprived areas by empowering communities through facilitating sporting and educational programmes.
During the event there will be a charity auction where unique and precious art pieces will be donated by famous luxury brands including a wolf of the colorful Cracking Art zoo. One more time the movement which until now has realized almost 395 exhibitions in the world, keeps alive a strong social commitment combining its artwork with a message of trust and regeneration.
Cracking Art giant animals zoo invades Area 12 Shopping Center, a shopping mall close to the Juventus Stadium of Turin.
From the 1st October until the 15th November a number of wolves, frogs, snails, meerkats and swallows, in all colors and sizes, will bring a wave of joy and participation to the Gallery which this year will celebrate its fifth anniversary.
Cracking Art and Slow Food: two snails for the magnificent event “Terra Madre Salone del Gusto”. Cracking giant artworks with their bright colors and unusual dimensions have just invaded the most typical places of Turin, anticipating the traditional event “Terra Madre Salone del Gusto”. An extraordinary way to discover a city which, with the participation of “Regione Lombardia” and “Comune di Torino”, will bring awareness on latest and relevant themes like food and new energies.
This year, in order to celebrate the twentieth birthday of the event, “Salone del Gusto” will involve the whole city: a perfect scenery for Cracking artworks, designed for urban installations.
From Murazzi to Piazza San Carlo, from Piazza Castello to Parco del Valentino, from Teatro Carignano until Palazzo Reale, the snails will bring a wave of joyful participation for the whole duration of the event (September 22 – September 26).
Cracking Art colorful swallows have just landed at the garden of Alfredo Oriani Library in Ravenna. In a few days, the city where Dante Alighieri spent the last years of his life, will celebrate the opening of Id_Dante, an ambitious project on the figure of the poet, created by Marco Bonobolabo Miccoli with the curatorship of Maria Vittoria Baravelli.
The project – which will culminate in 2021 – will start with the exhibition “Il Volto di Dante, per una traduzione contemporanea”: from September 18 to October 30 the exhibit will be set up at the Library with the aim of promoting a new iconography of Dante using a contemporary art approach.
The Comedy pattern will be reproduced through the exhibition of 33 + 1 artworks which, using different techniques, will translate Dante’s different languages in a modern way: from graphics to comics, from mosaic to Technogel, from bread to Tape Art. Among them there will be also some artworks created by four of our artists whose individual expression is not limited by the Cracking Art group dimension.
Cracking Art, as a movement, will participate with one of its most beautiful artworks. During the exhibition, three giant swallows will be placed near Dante Alighieri’s tomb. Simultaneously, as required by the project “Art Regenerates Art”, a number of mini sculptures will be sold at Caffè Letterario in Ravenna: the amount will support the project of making digital copies of books about Dante from the early twentieth century.
During the prestigious Christie’s auction at F1 Laureus Charity Night, the wolf donated by Cracking Art has been won for 3.200 euros. The amount will support Laureus Italia charity and social projects.
“Cave Canem” installation will start the 10th of September at Cava Burgazzi in Virle Treponti.
The event, organized by Consorzio Marmisti Bresciani and curated by Lillo Marciano, will present a Cracking Art site-specific installation that will celebrate the birth of a new artwork: a Wolf made of Botticino marble.
The purpose is to reintroduce the heart of Cracking Art philosophy which is based on the comparison between natural and artificial, giving modernity to the marble and classical nature to the plastic, favorite Medium of the movement. In this way Plastic supports Marble as, in the cultural mission of Cracking Art, Contemporary art supports Ancient art.
The Wolf, distinctive animal for Cracking Artists, that transmits the idea of the pack and of acting for the common good, will be the protagonist of the beautiful quarry with his majesty and elegance. This new artwork, that also includes the idea of solidity and individual strength, will be surrounded by a colorful pack of wolves made of plastic, as a further development of the relationship between natural and artificial.
As the practice of the project “Art regenerates Art” – that since 2012 consists of a fundraising for restoration of the cultural heritage and for the support to cultural projects – small plastic animals will be sold throughout the duration of “Cave Canem”. The proceeds will be destined to Rodolfo Vantini School, the oldest institute in Lombardy with its headquarters in Rezzato (Brescia).
Since the 10th of September to the 2nd of October the installation can be visited every weekend from 3.30 PM to 8.30 PM.
Info and guided tour: 030 2594506 or info@consorziomarmisti.org
Photo Credits: Tiziana Arici e Orlando Salmeri
On the eve of Monza Grand Prix F1, Cracking Art will participate to the long awaited F1 Laureus Charity Night, a fund-raising event related to sport and social areas, organized by Laureus Italia Onlus Foundation.
The event is scheduled for September the 1st, 2016 at Mercedes-Benz Center in Milan and it will host numerous Italian and international guests together with important personalities belonging to the business, entertainment, sport and Formula 1.
During the event a charity auction will be held by Christie’s, one of the most prestigious auction houses in the world, where unique and precious art pieces will be donated by famous luxury brands including two wolves of the colorful Cracking Art zoo.
Cracking Art movement was born in 1993 and since that moment it has created more than 395 art exhibitions and installations in the world, always maintaining a strong social commitment and supporting cultural initiatives with the project “Cracking Art – Art regenerates Art”. Through the donation of artworks, the movement promotes fund-raising initiatives in order to preserve the national artistic heritage, bringing a wave of regeneration to the monumental art.
Supporting Laureus Italia, Cracking Art brings not only a message of rebirth to the urban context and to the historical human memory, but for the very first time it boots sport and projects that help children with difficult and disadvantaged backgrounds. One more time Cracking Art exceeds contexts traditionally related to art in order to bring a message of joy and rebirth.
