following the success recorded by the new residential format through which, last year, poets were also called to the arts to tell, with new glance and approach, the experience of residence and the work produced there, the art museum of the Sila forest (Mabos) promotes the second edition of Rooms of imaginary life, within the Sense residences organized by eight seasons.
“The artist residences have distinguished Mabos since its inception, in 2017. But this new formula has allowed us to win a challenge that has become added value, or the supervision of the residence entrusted to a poet. After paying homage to the poet Franco Costabile, last year, on the occasion of the centenary of the birth, we intend to continue to see a universe, of visionary and sensitivity, which breaks the margins of the skills to watertight compartments »explains Elisabetta Longo, director of Mabos.
In fact, for the Sense 2025 artistic season, strengthening the coexistence between poetic and artistic vision within the perimeter of forest terraces chosen by each artist for the location of his work, then “inhabited” by a poet, there are three artist residences.
Different personalities from the world of poetry, literary criticism and photography will alternate in the curation of resident artists by sharing the common purpose of paying homage, on the occasion of the centenary of his birth, to the figure of another great protagonist of the 1900s Italian, or the photographer Mario Giacomelli.
The first residence, from 23 to 29 June, will feature the Turin artist Enrico Iuliano as protagonist. Sculpture teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Foggia, It focuses on its work on the value and expressive possibilities of the communicative act, relating to plastic and environment construction in the search for a balance between stability and dynamism.
To supervise his installation will be the pages of artistic literature of the Bolognese poet Bartolomeo Bellanova characterized by a stratified language, scattered with cultural references that draw on the ancient as to the contemporary.
Also this second edition of Rooms of imaginary life will be embellished with the original stretch of the pencil of Giuseppe Talarico, artistic director of Colosso Studio, who With irony and freshness it represents models of iconicity of Calabriaand from the photographic narrative of Isabella Marino.