Promote environmental art that establishes a direct and almost interdependent relationship with the surrounding nature: pursuing this objective, after the success recorded in Sorbo San Basile last October, the “Mabos Archive” exhibition arrives in Cicala.
In the village at the foot of the Catanzaro Sila, on Saturday 21 December, at 4 pm, an atypical exhibition of archive documents will be inaugurated, consisting of photographs of the works set up within the exhibition park, artists’ projects and everything relating to the promotion, including the results of the most recent collaboration with the illustrator and graphic designer Giuseppe Talarico.
By relating not only two geographical places but also two at times antithetical spaces of action, which harmonize under the sign of a single narrative and mission, the director of the Bosco della Sila Art Museum, Elisa Longo, supported and supported by the founder Mario Talarico, for this special edition he decided to use street poster art. The urban intervention, in fact, includes around 20 images which, printed in large format on poster paper, will adorn the walls of residential buildings in the alleys of Cicala.
“The choice to intervene directly in the urban context and make the exhibition even more communicative – explains Longo – emerged from a logistical need, but immediately emerged as a new and more effective possibility. It allowed us to involve not only the young citizens of the Terra Mater association, with whom we chose the route of the exhibition, but also the owners of the homes on which we will post the photo posters, who from simple and perhaps involuntary users are thus transformed into active participants in what is a real urban redevelopment project”.
This is an impactful form of artistic and poetic contamination as it dialogues in a simple and direct way with people’s daily lives, influencing their direction and understanding of urban space itself, albeit with the specificity of impermanence that also identifies the Mabos project so much. .
“The works of art conceived starting from these assumptions, whether conceived, designed and created in relation to a natural environment or not, undergo exposure to space-time factors in an amplified manner and, in the same way, establish with the community of users, extremely heterogeneous and generally immediate, a more intense relationship” specifies the director.
The inauguration of the exhibition, promoted as part of the project financed with CAP resources 2014/2020 Axis VI Action 6.8.3., will be embellished with an urban trekking activity organized by the Terra Mater association which will reveal the route traced by the posters , while telling the story of Cicala.
Many languages have been explored, with an eye especially on the involvement of new generations. In fact, the sound package “I rattles towards the borders” will also be available, a space of audio enjoyment which, through the warm and evocative voice of Pierpaolo Capovilla and the sound vibrations of Giorgio Caporale, brings to life the sense of travel and photographs Calabrians by Mario Giacomelli, of which the Museum holds a small nucleus.
“A rewriting of notes, thoughts and emotions resulting from the meeting of the great photographer from the Marche with the human and geographical landscapes of Calabria, first assimilated in the plots of physical movements, then sublimated by the reading of the Song of the New Emigrants by the Calabrian poet Franco Costabile” comments the director who, among other things, designs and produces these sound packages to increase the purest and deepest knowledge of places as well as poetry that resists the limits of time and the intrusions of borders geographical.
