the street is our gallery

Starting on January 11th, the second part of Cagliari Urbanfest – Generazioni Metropolitane, the urban art festival created by Asteras with the curatorship of Ivana Salis and Barbara Catte, will offer up exhibitions, mural guided tours, music, and meetings with artists.

Social and environmental sustainability is the common thread running through all the events that will take place in the neighborhoods of San Michele, Stampace, Marina, and Sant’Elia.

Matteo Ambu and Matteo Tauriello duo exhibition entitled “Biocene” will open on Thursday 11th January at the Temporary Storing, the Fondazione per l’arte Bartoli-Felter art gallery in Stampace quarter. Starting from a reflection on the Anthropocene, the artists offer a future vision of the planet in which nature regains its spaces, profoundly compromised by the effects of human action.

The group exhibition “Bucolica Urbana” will open on Friday 12th January at the Castello di San Michele. Featuring the works by Pietrina Atzori, Gianni Casagrande, Roberto Chessa, Ciredz, Michele Mereu, Marco Rèa, and Laura Saddi, the show is focused on the concept of urban space seen as a contemporary anthropological place. The sense of alienation that pervades our society emerges from the plurality of artists’ research and visual languages. The exhibition is organized in collaboration with Orientare.

There will be a double appointment on Saturday 13th January: in the morning the “Mural Tour” will take place in the Sant’Elia neighborhood, a guided tour to discover the works of urban art created during the two editions of the festival. In the evening at Spazio e Movimento, in Marina district, there will be the inauguration of “Entreterras“, a photography exhibition by Mayara Scudeler and Catia Simões organized in collaboration with KBH.G – Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger. The two Brazilian artists present a selection of portraits on the theme of the return to nature taken in analogue and created during an artistic residency in Corsica promoted by the Basel Hermann Geiger Cultural Foundation.

Sunday 14th January is dedicated to a series of events taking place at the Castello di San Michele.

• At 11 am there will be “Urban Bucolica – The Curators Tell”, a visit to the collective exhibition conducted by the curators Ivana Salis and Barbara Catte.
• At noon the composer and musician Nicola Agus will hold a concert during which he will present his electronic Launeddas for the first time. It’s an innovative instrument with increased expressive possibilities and a new design created by the musician, on whose electronic part Francesco Capuzzi also collaborated. The concert will also be dedicated to other instruments invented by Agus using recycled materials.
• At 3 pm there will be “Impressions”, an exhibition around the restitution of the relational art project proposed to Sant’Elia residents by the artist Roberta Congiu. The project was born to gather the voices of the neighborhood to build a collective testimony on one of the most significant places in Cagliari. The installation will be open to visitors until February 25 in conjunction with the “Bucolica Urbana” exhibition.
• Closing the day, at 4.30 pm, will be the Urbanfest Talk, a meeting focused on art as a form of redevelopment and social inclusion and on the contribution of artists to the construction of a sustainability culture. Together with the artists of the festival, there will be Simona Campus, director of the MUACC – University Museum of Contemporary Arts and Cultures of the University of Cagliari, Efisio Carbone, head of the ISRE museum sector, Alessandra Menesini, curator and art critic, Ercole Bartoli, president of the Fondazione per l’arte Bartoli-Felter, Marilena Pitturru, artist and founder of Spazio e Movimento, and Chiara Manca, curator and director of the Manca Spazio gallery in Nuoro.

Cagliari Urbanfest partners are Fondazione di Sardegna, E‐Distribuzione, Orientare, Fondazione per l’Arte Bartoli Felter, Manca Spazio, Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger |KBH.G, Spazio e Movimento, LILA Cagliari, Parrocchia Sant’Elia, and Confraternita di Misericordia di Cagliari-Sant’Elia. Media partners: YouTG.net, Blocal ‐ Travel & Street Art blog, Street Art Cities, and I Support Street Art. With the patronage of Regione Autonoma della Sardegna, Presidente del Consiglio regionale della Sardegna, and Comune di Cagliari.

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