{"id":22606,"date":"2026-06-05T08:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T08:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crackingart.com\/?p=22606"},"modified":"2026-06-12T08:24:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:24:54","slug":"cracking-art-takes-over-limone-piemonte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crackingart.com\/en\/cracking-art-takes-over-limone-piemonte\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Fables in Limone Piemonte"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A fairy tale featuring animals will come to life in the streets of Limone\u2019s town center starting on June 10. The village will be transformed by a gentle, colorful, and decidedly larger-than-life invasion. This is&nbsp;<strong>Cracking Art<\/strong>, the international art movement that for more than thirty years has been bringing animal-inspired artworks to cities around the world. Throughout the season, its artists will gift the tourist destination with crocodiles, snails, swallows, rabbits, and many other charming protagonists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monumental installations will transform Via Roma into an open-air artistic route, with a preview event for journalists and art enthusiasts in mid-June and the official opening on June 26. The exhibition will remain accessible in the town center until September 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Founded in 1993, Cracking Art has built its identity around the use of regenerated and recyclable plastic, transformed into sculptures characterized by vivid colors and essential forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The creators explain:&nbsp;<em>\u201cAgainst the backdrop of the Maritime Alps, the sculptures evoke the surrounding natural environment and, through their interaction with the people who live in Limone, generate a fertile interference, a kind of hybridization. From this dialogue between nature and urban space emerge new inspirations and stories to imagine and tell.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this project, Limone has chosen to express itself in a new way through contemporary public art, turning a stroll through the village into a journey of installations and details that change the way people perceive everyday spaces, while also opening gateways to the worlds of imagination and play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The presence of the artworks throughout the urban landscape invites both residents and visitors to view the village from different perspectives. The installations are also striking for their scale: the snails exceed three meters in length, the rabbits reach two and a half meters in height, and the monumental crocodile stretches over five meters long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project promoters, My Limone and the Ego Bianchi Association, with the support of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Cuneo, aim to create a visually impactful contrast: the rarefied atmosphere of the mountains meeting the industrial plasticity of the artworks; the peaceful landscape and Alpine traditions set against the bright-colored silhouettes of pop animals that burst into streets and squares, creating a captivating sense of surreal irony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The initiative is sponsored by the Municipality of Limone. Partners include Limone Riserva Bianca, Fiocco di Neve Relais, Mac Miche Restaurant, Galleria d&#8217;Arte Senesi, and Ambiente e Servizi Eco Solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fairy tale featuring animals will come to life in the streets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crackingart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crackingart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crackingart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crackingart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crackingart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22606"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crackingart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22644,"href":"https:\/\/www.crackingart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22606\/revisions\/22644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crackingart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crackingart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crackingart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}