Cracking Art colorful swallows have just landed at the garden of Alfredo Oriani Library in Ravenna. In a few days, the city where Dante Alighieri spent the last years of his life, will celebrate the opening of Id_Dante, an ambitious project on the figure of the poet, created by Marco Bonobolabo Miccoli with the curatorship of Maria Vittoria Baravelli.
The project – which will culminate in 2021 – will start with the exhibition “Il Volto di Dante, per una traduzione contemporanea”: from September 18 to October 30 the exhibit will be set up at the Library with the aim of promoting a new iconography of Dante using a contemporary art approach.
The Comedy pattern will be reproduced through the exhibition of 33 + 1 artworks which, using different techniques, will translate Dante’s different languages in a modern way: from graphics to comics, from mosaic to Technogel, from bread to Tape Art. Among them there will be also some artworks created by four of our artists whose individual expression is not limited by the Cracking Art group dimension.
Cracking Art, as a movement, will participate with one of its most beautiful artworks. During the exhibition, three giant swallows will be placed near Dante Alighieri’s tomb. Simultaneously, as required by the project “Art Regenerates Art”, a number of mini sculptures will be sold at Caffè Letterario in Ravenna: the amount will support the project of making digital copies of books about Dante from the early twentieth century.
