From June 4th to August 31st in the rooms of the Omero State Tactile Museum at the Mole Vanvitelliana in Ancona the Cracking Art works were put in dialogue with the sculptures in the museum created to make classical and contemporary sculptures accessible to the blind people, through the touch. A section of the exhibition is set up with works created by students of artistic high schools and academies of fine arts who were inspired by the poetic Cracking Art. The exhibition is part of the program of the Biennale Arteinsieme.
Cracking Art – Stories
The gardens of Villa Malfitano and Villa Trabia in Palermo are colored and populated with Cracking Art sculptures.
From today to July 10, over 40 works in regenerated plastic immerse themselves in the green nature that characterizes the two locations.
The exhibition is promoted by Terzo Pilastro – International Foundation and created by the Culture and Art Foundation with the organizational support of Comediarting and Arthemisia, in collaboration with the G. Whitaker Foundation.
Animals at the Court. Lives never seen in the Royal Gardens is the group exhibition presented by the Royal Museums as part of the larger Lives on Earth project started in 2021 with the exhibition Animals from A to Z. The intent is to bring the attention to the countless and amazing forms of life that inhabit our planet, focusing on animals. The exhibition, curated by Stefania Dassi and Carla Testore, is the proposal with which the Royal Museums intend to create an innovative tour, where the techniques and languages of contemporary art interact with the setting of the ancient residence. The path winds, in part, in the Royal Gardens, an important element of the museum’s identity, as well as a precious meeting place for citizens and tourists.
The artists involved are: Mariagrazia Abbaldo e Paolo Albertelli, Maura Banfo, Nazareno Biondo, Nicola Bolla, Stefano Bombardieri, Jessica Carroll, Fabrizio Corneli, Cracking Art, Diego Dutto, Ezio Gribaudo, Michele Guaschino, Luigi Mainolfi, Gino Marotta, Mario Merz, Pino Pascali e Velasco Vitali.
REcreation
In all vocabularies the word recreation is given two meanings: the first and the best known, as break from study or work, to engage in pleasant and relaxing activities. The second, less common, of new creation.
Cracking Art Artworks, want to be the forms that are significant of the two meanings.
The marking given to the initial RE, wants to evoke those words that have now become needful for the new coming creations: regeneration, reuse, rethinking, rebirth.
An itinerary throughout the city to be followed with a curious and careful look, to renew the spirit of observation towards places on which, due to habit or distraction, we do not dwell enough. We start from Piazza Giovanni XXIII, to Piazza della Libertà and from Piazza San Lorenzo to MAGA Museum.
The exhibition project is in collaboration with MAGA Museum.
The 2021 Edition of the Urban Art Festival “Hecho en Casa Entel” took place with the formula of an itinerant project that involved four Chilean cities: Santiago, Iquique, Valdivia and Concepción. Our snails have brought into the open spaces of the cities involved their spirit of regeneration and rebirth.
Six places in the city of Pontedera have been invaded by Cracking Art works: Piazza Martiri della Libertà, Piazza Curtatone and Montanara, Piazza Cavour, Piazza Andrea da Pontedera, Piazza Unità d’Italia, Rotonda Via Pisana.
As an artifice is an expedient aimed to obtain extraneous or unauthorized effects from the natural order or the immediate appearance of things, Cracking Art’s sculptures and temporary installations are events that surprise and amaze all those who come into direct contact with them. Extemporaneous encounters that transform into a catalyst of emotions.
The event, open to all and available for free, is part of the Art for not Sleeping project • Pontedera and beyond the 21st century, which for years has engaged with the city of Valdera, directed by Alberto Bartalini.
Art will be the city main protagonist until March 2022. This exhibition is promoted by the Municipality of Pontedera, the Pontedera Foundation for Culture, the Peccioliper Foundation for and with the patronage of Tuscany Region.
“Domenico Sartor” Agricultural Institute – Castelfranco Veneto (Italy)
The word “culture”, from the Latin “colĕre”, means “to cultivate“. It was the roman philosopher Cicero, who, finding himself having to translate the term παιδεία, paidèia (education, training), chose precisely “colĕre“.
By identifying culture with education, he argued that philosophical practice led – through the cultūra animi – men from a primitive life to a civil life, that is, associated in community.
Drawing inspiration from the etymology of the word culture, Cracking Art presents a tour of the Agricultural Institute”Domenico Sartor” of Castelfranco Veneto developed in three specific stages:
“Regeneration”
Temporary installation of colored snails that invade and emphasize the new school structure just built. The ancient teaching of agricultural techniques requires continuous revisions and adjustments that go hand in hand with technological innovations and climate change. The snail, an iconic work of the collective, is an animal par excellence connected to the earth, which it travels through releasing a nourishing and regenerating slime. On its way it is in continuous connection with the outside through the antennas, sensory organs that act as eyes.
“Frogs’ rain”
Temporary installation in one of the greenhouses intended for the cultivation of flowers. A rain of frogs that ideally water the underlying flowers, playing on the ambivalence of the meanings that this image can represent, that is the precious element of the water in which the amphibian lives or the chaotic vision of unexpected changes with which we must increasingly have to do.
“Deep roots”
Permanent installation of snails that will climb the walls of a special specially made vase that contains a fruit tree. Unlike the usual temporary practice, a work will be built that will remain permanently in the institute. A work that will take root and which will be the first seed for the creation of a museum with an unprecedented formula, which indissolubly unites the two meanings of culture.
Cracking Art – Cultūra animi
Agricultural Institute”Domenico Sartor” – Castelfranco Veneto (Treviso)
Via Postioma di Salvarosa, 28 – 31033
Castelfranco Veneto (TV)
15th October 2021 / 15th January 2022
Free entry
Entrance: Mon – Fri 8.00 a.m./5.30 p.m. Sat 8.00 a.m./ 2.00 p.m.
Info: Phone 0423 490615 posta@istitutoagrariosartor.edu.it
www.istitutoagrariosartor.edu.it
