Harbour City opens its doors to the renowned Italian Cracking Art group, who will host its first eco-public art exhibition in Hong Kong on their 30th anniversary. From 31 January to 28 February, over 90 animal sculptures made from regenerated plastic will be on display across 8 different locations in Harbour City, indoors and out, from Ocean Terminal Forecourt to Ocean Terminal Deck, Seaview Balcony in Ocean Centre and more.
“Cracking Art” Public Art Exhibition is designed to stimulate fun interaction with visitors and highlight the increasingly close relationship between natural life and artificial reality, especially the use of plastic. Appearing in unexpected urban spaces, the brightly coloured animal sculptures made from regenerable plastic have always triggered a community-wide conversation about the importance of sustainability and environmental conservation.
Cracking Art artists have created 14 types of animal sculptures in their collection, with each species chosen for its strong symbolism.
From January 26th to April 26th 2023 the Cracking Art works will be the protagonists in different points of the city of Desenzano del Garda: Piazza Matteotti, Piazza Malvezzi, Piazza Garibaldi, Lungolago Cesare Battisti and Diga Foranea.
Eight installations, 46 sculptures that dialogue with the architecture of the city and with the lake to look at reality through the eyes of the imagination.
The exhibition is promoted by the City of Desenzano del Garda – Tourism Department in collaboration with the municipal offices.
Regen’Art: that’s the exhibition project born from Cracking Art and Cogne Acciai Speciali collaboration, which origins from the willingness to give new life to substance. The temporary installation project has been conceived between two opposite realities such as the Fort of Bard and Cogne Acciai Speciali who both contribute to bring into the world the Italian region of Valle D’Aosta.
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Promoted by Terzo Pilastro-Internazionale Foundation, chaired by Prof. Avv. Emmanuele F. M. Emanuele, it opens on 20 July in the Villa Regina Margherita and in the outdoor area of Torre di Ligny in Trapani as well as in the historic Phoenician island of Mozia. The project is in continuity with last year’s exhibition held in Avezzano in the province of L’Aquila, the success of which this year brought the animals first to Palermo and now to Trapani and Mozia. This is an exhibition consisting of over 40 maxi sculptures designed to dialogue with the environment and to stimulate interaction with visitors.
At the Millenium Park in Budapest the Cracking Art artworks emerge from the usual context and populate the garden areas like the three-dimensional images of the books of fantastic stories.
Unexpected encounters are those with wildlife species of different origins – from penguins, elephants, swallows, dolphins – who found their summer residence at the McArthurGlen Centers in Barberino, in the heart of Mugello and Castel Romano, the Capital’s Designer Outlet . Over two hundred maxi sculptures of the Cracking Art movement, of the most varied sizes and bright colors, accompany visitors through squares, avenues, roofs and secret passages, for two large surprising itineraries that will become the means to talk about art and sustainability.
The exhibition “Fantastic creatures. Animals between myth and reality from Dürer to Cracking Art” was inaugurated at the Palazzo Assessorile in Cles (TN) which will be open until 16 October 2022. An exhibition curated by Lucia Barison that tells the ancient, symbolic and evocative power of animals. Among the artworks on display are great names in history of art including Andrea Mantegna, Guercino, Albrecht Dürer, Renato Guttuso, Giorgio de Chirico, Pablo Picasso, Alighiero Boetti, Giacomo Balla, Fortunato Depero, Antonio Ligabue and Fausto Melotti. During the exhibition the streets of the center of Cles will be colored by the #creaturefantastiche by Cracking Art. The exhibition is promoted by the Municipality of Cles with the participation of the Cles Initiative Consortium.
From June 18th to September 4th, we will be in Örebro (Sweden) with an installation of multicolored wolves on the occasion of OPENART, the main Scandinavian biennale of public art.
The new cultural center of the city of Istres (France) was inaugurated on Saturday 11 June. To celebrate the event, a series of Cracking Art installations have appeared in the city and will be visible until 28 August.
Snails, penguins, crocodiles and other animals are the popular landmarks that invite the public to follow an unusual tour route.
The Game of the Goose | June 7th – September 30th 2022
Snails, rabbits, wolves, swallows, elephants, crocodiles and wild geese.
Over 100 maxi-sculptures of the most varied sizes and bright colors will invade the 600,000 square meters of the Sigurtà Garden Park.
The itinerary is designed to create an unusual Game of the Goose that will lead visitors in search of these special artworks and to discover the peculiarities of the Park.
It will be possible to follow the 18 stages indicated on the map and look for the artistic giants in the fabulous scenography of the Summer Park in a continuous dialogue between creativity and environment; the final stop will be at the Aquatic Gardens, where among colorful water lilies, the new work of the collective will be discovered, presented to the public in a world preview: the Wild Goose. A work dedicated to an animal that has played a cardinal role in the tradition of numerous civilizations, in which its figure has even taken on mythical connotations as a symbol of life, rebirth and fertility, vigilant for men and messenger of the gods.
