A village in Molise r/exists with street art: urban art festival directed by Alice Pasquini returns

From June 23 to 26, 2022, the great Italian street art festival, now in its seventh edition, returns to Civitacampomarano (Campobasso): Cvtà Street Fest. Conceived and directed by well-known street artist Alice Pasquini, the festival involves seven international artists and includes a rich program of events including live music, DJ sets and live sets, and film screenings in the Angevin Castle. In recent years, thanks to the event, the small village in Molise has become a free open-air museum.

In this edition, the festival will welcome artists from Europe, Asia and Africa: featured will be Cinta Vidal, Daku and Icy and Sot, Akut, Ememem and Keya Tama. Coming from different areas of the international street art scene, the artists will work from the perspective of respecting the “spirit of places” and their identity and with community involvement, depicting topical issues: from welcome to migration, from respect for diversity to tolerance.

Cinta Vidal, a Spanish artist known around the world for her illustrations and murals, will focus on the richness of diversity; the Iranian brothers Icy and Sot, based in New York, with their provocative works made with iron wire will stimulate a reflection on immigration and borders, a theme close to the history of Molise, which has always been a land of emigration. The Indian Daku, with his reflections on the flow of time through textual works made with iron lattices in which he inserts text, readable only thanks to the intervention of the sun that generates the projected shadow of the words; the French Ememem with his colorful mosaic carpets that overlap like layers to the urban fabric, to fill and restore the potholes of streets and sidewalks, regenerating the city. Akut, from Germany, bursts in with his underground photorealism, and finally Keya Tama, from South Africa, a master of contrasts that compare present and past.

Along with street art, film screenings and the traditionalfree guided tours in search of the artworks on the walls of the village (more than fifty) created over the years by artists such as David de la Mano, Alex Senna Nespoon, Jan Vormann, Add Fuel, Martin Whatson, Biancoshock, Icks, Uno, Gola Hundun, to name a few, will also return. There will be no shortage of walks to discover the beautiful village of Molise, founded in Samnite times on a spur of sandstone rock, 500 meters above sea level and surrounded by 600 hectares of forest, from which there is a breathtaking landscape, where it is possible to contemplate the vertigo of the cliff carved by the Mordale stream and architectural monuments such as the Angevin Castle, the Merchant’s House and the Church of St. George Martyr.

The festival, under the artistic direction of Alice Pasquini, is organized by the CivitArt Cultural Association in collaboration with the ProLoco “Vincenzo Cuoco” of Civitacampomarano and the municipality of Civitacampomarano.

For info: www.cvtastreetfest.it

Photo by Ian Cox

A village in Molise r/exists with street art: urban art festival directed by Alice Pasquini returns

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