Cracking Art: Art regenerates Art
The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental –Wassily Kandinsky
Let’s start from a question: why when we speak about Cracking Art we speak about Regenerative Art?
The idea of Regeneration has been inspiring the artistic history of the movement for more than twenty years: the plastic of the urban sculptures is regenerated, it’s matter that has properties of a virtually eternal power, that can be crushed and reshaped into other sculptures.
This regenerative process, metaphor of the life cycle, was originally related to a strong environment sensibility. Gradually, through the project “Art regenerates Art”, Cracking Art movement passed to the programmatic intention of putting art to service the protection of landscape, a broader aesthetic and ethics category, understanding of human creativity, as well as that of nature.
How? “Art regenerates Art” is Contemporary Art that supports the Art of the Past: practice and performance actions are merged into a systematic intervention program on artistic and monumental heritage, founded on the idea that contemporary art can save the past, promoting concrete actions for the restoration of monuments.
Snail was the first Cracking animal that supported the project: in October 2012 fifty blue sculptures of recycled plastic came up between the spires of Milan Cathedral in aid of the Statue of Madonnina. Then – just some examples – there were frogs at Portico di San Luca in Bologna; swallows at Castello Sforzesco and Siena; art installations at Palmanova, Giardini di Valsanzibio and Palazzo Niemeyer, headquarters of the Mondadori Group.
These colored animals have access to the most sacred and inviolable sites of monumental art, thanks above all to their peaceful irony that is the real strength of the whole project.
