From 9 July to 3 October, the mammoth and colorful animal sculptures signed by Cracking Art arrive at the Aia dei Musei in Avezzano.
With the Cracking Art exhibition, the Abruzzo exhibition venue is preparing to host a one-of-a-kind event for the first time, becoming animated by creatures of the animal world that are unique in terms of colors but also in terms of size and composition.
In fact, beloved all over the world, the works of the Crackers (as the artists of the collective define themselves) – ferrying the public into a dreamlike world but also full of ethical significance – are characterized not only by their bright colors and sizes ranging from from small format to XXL sizes, but also for their manufacturing process in synthetic material that derives from the regeneration of plastic which, in this way, from material considered disposable becomes art.
Plastic transforms itself and becomes a means of communication: from a simple material in common use and a substance that is potentially harmful to the environment, it shapes itself, becoming a decorative element and a source of inspiration.
With the aim of making art accessible to the wider public and contributing to the civic sense of society, the exhibition – one of the most well-known contemporary art phenomena globally – is conceived and desired free of charge, so that it can be within the reach of all not only in terms of accessibility, but also so that it can be internalized, stimulating the reactions and attention of the individual and – at the same time – of the community towards important issues of social interest, such as environmental protection.
Animated by snails and turtles, elephants and rabbits, bears and wolves, the Aia dei Musei in Avezzano is therefore preparing to become a special and colorful Noah’s Ark where nature and respect for it are always the protagonists. Animals to which man has always attributed a power, full of messages and which conceal, each in its own way, a strong meaning of regeneration.
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Until October 30, the city of Lunel will host a Cracking Art exhibition.
Snails, rabbits, wolves, fish, elephants, meerkats…you will see all the colors!
Cracking Art invades the streets of Lunel.
After Paris, Milan, Sydney, New York, Venice, Brussels, Prague and the main French cities, the artists of the Cracking Art artistic group will install 150 colored sculptures throughout the city.
The goal is to offer the public a route through various emblematic places of the city to discover these works made by recycling plastic waste. With this fun and educational exhibition, culture returns to the city!
Imagined by the Italian collective Cracking Art, these sculptures represent multicolored animals of disproportionate size. Imagine giant snails settling in Place Louis Rey, or a cloud of fish in the sky of Cours Gabriel Péri, the Statue of Liberty surrounded by wolves, giant rabbits on the station square, meerkats in the Jean Hugo park fountain. This is the somewhat crazy and daring bet that the Municipality of Lunel has chosen to make for a summer full of culture and colors.
For this, the City has given the artists carte blanche to invade the emblematic places of Lunel and install their sculptures.
Lunel was fascinated by this original way of dealing with and communicating the problems of the planet, which is why Cracking Art was invited with an installation for the whole summer.
Do not hesitate to take a walk in Lunel and let yourself be surprised by these cute and colorful creatures: on the contrary, they will pose with you for a truly extravagant selfie.
CRACKING ART INVADES SOTTOMARINA
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From July to September the center of Sottomarina will be populated with colored sculptures of the Cracking Art artistic movement.
Urban Fairy Tales is the title chosen for the Cracking Art project in our tourist destination: an invasion created with 30 works between giants and mediums to give the city a touch of modernity and joy, without forgetting the message aimed at the environment and the theme of regenerated plastic.
Get “Out of the Box” this Summer with Black Box Fund Black Box Fund is hosting a six-week Summer series Out of the Box, featuring Cracking Art
June 20 to August 1, 2021 MILWAUKEE, WI
Black Box Fund has announced a series of events that is sure to inspire, entitled Out of the Box. Out of the Box is a six-week series of family-friendly performances, workshops and more taking place along Lake Michigan’s shore south of Discovery World at Lakeshore State Park.
Over 75 local non-profits, entertainers, artists and businesses will enliven this summer with multifaceted experiences highlighting a range of national and international awareness events—from African American Music Appreciation to World Nature Conservation. These events will run from June 20 to August 1, 2021.
“Black Box Fund’s team is passionate about artists of all kinds—musicians, dancers, visual artists, poets, whatever art form someone may be doing—and supporting the creative experiences that happen when artists meet their publics. Seeing them do their work in real life and real time is always extraordinary.” – Marilu Knode, Executive Director of Black Box Fund.
At the heart of the event is the commissioned sculptural installation REbirth by artistic movement Cracking Art. REbirth features 22 five-foot-tall, brightly colored swallows, made of “regenerable” plastic. Cracking Arts main desire is to create a sense of wonder that can bring pleasure while highlighting the overwhelming presence of plastic in our lives. “We primarily choose urban spaces rather than those dedicated specifically to art in order to trigger unexpected emotions, expel routine from everyday places, and allow for the reflection of a space with new eyes. Our hope is that this relationship can inspire creativity and a different point of view for observing the surrounding reality.”
Black Box Fund has committed to bring the community together around art and highlight the broad diversity of creativity that this city has to offer. When asked about the event, Doug McDonald, Board President of Black Box Fund, said “We look at this as moving out of a mental box, not just a physical one, and expanding our connection with the creative community and with the community at large. Our mission is to create welcoming, family-friendly, open gatherings that really draw people from all aspects of the community.”
Amazement and surprise are the fil rouge of the installations that have inhabited historical architecture and that we are invited to look for by walking through the city streets with a curious spirit, experiencing the city as a place of history and unexpected discoveries.
Arriving at the Salone degli Incanti, the first unexpected protagonist who meets and welcomes us is a pink penguin. An unequivocal reference to the very famous Marco Penguin, a real mascot of the city of which for many years he was the most famous citizen.
From this space, visitors are invited to follow the path that leads to Piazza Attilio Hortis and Piazza di Cavana, where two pairs of large swallows pay homage to literature with the ideal free flight of which they are recognized symbols.
We pass through Piazza della Borsa where a pack of wolves, animal protagonists of many fables and folk tales, observe the frenetic movement of the city at 360 degrees with the impassive strength that living in a group can offer.
Just behind, in Piazza Verdi, a large elephant leans its mighty head against the entrance columns of the theater. A gesture of support for culture after these long months without being able to enjoy music and live shows.
Passing through Via della Cassa di Risparmio, the austere building is downplayed by the presence of frogs overlooking the balconies, giving that note of color projected towards social well-being and empathy, the positive spirit that wants to stimulate vital leaps.
In Via delle Torri you will find yourself as if you were projected into the fairy tale of Peter Pan: a large red crocodile dominated by the bell tower clock evokes the very famous reptile that in the story swallowed an alarm clock. We are chased by time and it is up to each of us to use it in the best way.
A large white rabbit awaits in Piazza Ponterosso. The reference to Alice and her passage into the metaphysical dimension of fantasy is rendered here giant and placid.
Last stop in Piazza della Repubblica, where a large snail that has escaped from the Salone degli Incanti also wanders around the city to discover the hidden corners and the history of the place that hosts it.
The Cracking Art installations are inserted and confronted with the history and architecture of the places that host them and come alive with the empathic interactions that are established with the public. Each work carries a message that each visitor is called to interpret and spread.
a great unprecedented installation, including over 400 floral elements in regenerated plastic, can be visited in the industrial spaces of Tollegno 1900.
From 3rd June to 23rd July 2021
Tollegno 1900, Sala Luce
Via Antonio Gramsci, 11 – Tollegno (Biella)
Twenty years after the participation in the Venice Biennale directed by Harald Szeemann, when the collective participated with 1200 golden plastic tortoises coming out of the sea and that occupied the entire Garden area to symbolise the warning sign of nature threatened by man, Cracking Art realizes for the first time in its history a work that does not depict animals but originates from the plant world. The title of this large installation is Nature we didn’t know yet, and it will be open in the industrial spaces of the textile company Tollegno 1900, as a close dialogue between architecture and the territory, from 3rd June to 23rd July 2021.
The work Nature we didn’t know yet is configured as a site-specific installation composed of over 400 white floral elements in regenerated plastic that extends into the large room – 50 metres long and 20 metres wide – flooded with light in which a central element measuring two and a half metres of height and one and a half metres in diameter stand flooded with light. Each flower that makes up the installation is a unique piece, with its own aesthetic and significant potential. The material is not placed inside moulds but is shaped by hand, transforming a ‘repetitive’ material par excellence, plastic, into a mouldable element, always different, never the same.
The lack of seriality, a topos in the production of Cracking Art, is conceived here as the sign of a new nature created by man reborn into a different form, who reappropriates luxuriant and vital specificities and spaces, abandoning the homogeneity in which man tries to force it. The term “nature” in the common conception is associated with something primordial, powerful, boundless, but at the same time evokes darker scenarios related to exploitation, submission, control.
Nature we didn’t know yet evokes the need for reconciliation between the human being and what he himself creates, imagines, thinks, produces. A locus amoenus within which the visitor is invited to identify becoming part of the installation, reflecting on the indomitable tendency of nature, even if modified, to reorganise and tend to the creation of life.
The place chosen for this first exit aims to reinforce the concepts expressed by the work: an industrial room but with architecture that evokes places of worship, with the predominance of light entering from the two long sides through a series of large windows from which, looking outside, on the one hand you can see the mountains, the green of the woods, the water that flows while on the other hand the gaze is projected on the areas of the factory still used for the production of fine wool.
The cornerstone of Cracking Art’s work has always been the recovery and transformation of plastic material with the aim of investigating the relationship between nature and technology, uniqueness and serial reproduction, individuality, and stereotype, questioning the current and future condition of the human being with respect to the concept of sustainability. Using plastic, regeneratable or regenerated material, Cracking Art creates works and installations that imagine the possible conditions of the future.
The partnership between Cracking Art and Tollegno 1900 was born in the sign of the sharing of values linked to the strong social and environmental commitment, which distinguish both realities, also united by the common origin of Biella and passion for art. Within the industrial context of Tollegno 1900, which sees the company engaged in an eco-sustainable approach applied to all production processes, the hybridisation of the languages of art and business lays the foundations of a new cultural project that aims to bring the public closer to environmental issues through new interpretative keys arising from art.
The meeting between Cracking Art and Tollegno 1900 coincides with the birth of a new cultural hub in Biella that, in the coming months, will increasingly animate the manufacturing company’s production spaces. The project consists in the activation of new collaborations and initiatives aimed at promoting the value of sustainability through art and innovation.
On the occasion of Parma Capital of Culture 2021, PARMA 360 Festival of Contemporary Creativity presents the unpublished installation “The Time of Wolves”, by CrackingArt.
The work of art, composed by 29 yellow wolves plus 1 gray wolf, will be placed inside the water mirror of Piazzale della Pace, on the occasion of the FAI Spring Days.
Subsequently, the yellow wolves will be moved inside the Parma Railway Station in a triple set-up that will involve the areas of the 2nd floor of the Spazio Viaggiatori, the Mezzanine and the basement.
A wish for coexistence between humans and wild life with a view to a more widespread understanding of the mechanisms of a nature that attracts us but in front of which we are scared and uncertain when we recognize a potential danger in it.
In Borgo Valbelluna, fuchsia snails suddenly appeared on the facade of the Palazzo delle Contesse di Mel.
A surprising artistic installation by Cracking Art that arises from the synergy between the Feudo association, the Municipal Administration and Bellunum srl and which will embellish the square of one of “Borghi più belli d’Italia” from 24 April to 30 September 2021.
“Uncommon” represents the typicality of the scattered municipality in which different realities meet every kilometer.
“Uncommon” are people who dedicate themselves to the cultural and human enrichment of their territory, to the inclusion of different skills as for the guests of Mel’s “Noialtri” day center who support and participate in artistic initiatives.
“Uncommon” is the wish for a return to a normal life after months of limited travel.
“Uncommon” is and must be the attention that all of us must pay to environmental issues, above all to that of waste.
The initiative was also shared by Bellunum s.r.l., a company that deals with waste collection in the area.
Starting from March 1st, 26 Cracking Art yellow wolves have found their symbolic lair in the “Sala Luce” of the Biellese company Tollegno 1900, from which they are visible because they are illuminated and placed as a symbolic guard of the windows. “The choice to focus on one of the most emblematic species of the Italian natural and cultural heritage, so much so as to be protected by the WWF, was not accidental because, besides being a faithful expression of the principles that inspire our movement, it represents an ironic reconciliation between wolves and sheep, animals evocative of the world of Tollegno 1900 “.
Press office / TOLLEGNO 1900
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The proceeds from the sale of the small Frogs donated by Cracking Art contributed to the restoration of two works by the Futurist artist Achille Funi belonging to the Treviso Civic Museums.
The fundraising took place on the occasion of the RE.USE exhibition organized by TRA Treviso Ricerca Arte and curated by Valerio Dehò.
The initiative is part of the Cracking Art project “Art Regenerates Art” active since 2012 and aimed at supporting restoration projects and cultural initiatives in Italy and abroad.
