A week dedicated to visual arts: Cremona Contemporary Art Week returns

From May 18 to 26, Cremona Contemporanea | Art Week returns to Cremona, an event dedicated to the visual arts through exhibitions and meetings aimed at stimulating dialogue between the art of the present and the city’s vast historical and artistic heritage. The initiative, which is now in its second edition, is realized under the artistic direction of Rossella Farinotti and the coordination of CFAgency, and is promoted by the Cremona Department of Culture with the collaboration of the Province of Cremona, the Chamber of Commerce of Cremona and Confcommercio province of Cremona. There are many new features planned for the new edition, which is designed to grow the festival toward an increasingly international dimension and greater integration with local heritage.

Bringing Cremona Contemporanea | Art Week 2024 to life will be 20 contemporary artists active on the international scene. From site-specific installations to large-format paintings, from sculpture to video art, to ceramics and textile productions. The works, will accompany the public along an exhibition path to discover places in the city that in many cases are not usually accessible to the public, but thanks to Cremona Contemporanea | Art Week are “exposed” together with the works of contemporary artists called to activate them. Cremona Contemporanea | Art Week offers over twenty places to explore, from the epicenter of the city to the most remote areas. These include historic palaces, squares, museums, art galleries, churches, antique workshops, theaters, institutes, universities, and disused spaces; in fact, their purpose is to enhance Cremona’s rich heritage.

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New additions to the 2024 edition include: the Teatro di San Luca restored and reopened to the public after more than four decades, Palazzo Vidoni Pagliari, the cloister of the Chiesa del Foppone, Palazzo Stanga Trecco, the Scuola di Liuteria, the campus of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and the Edicola di San Luca. To these are added places that characterized the path of the first edition, such as Palazzo del Comune, San Carlo Cremona, which has become a cultural reference point for Art Week and the city, along with the San Lorenzo Archaeological Museum, Palazzo Affaitati, RobolottiSei, Triangolo, Fasa Architetti and many others. A significant novelty of Cremona Contemporanea | Art Week 2024 consists in the increasing involvement and participation of the entire city community, through the creation of collaborative “parallel projects” with renowned national and international cultural institutions, aiming to enrich and expand the exhibition offer of the event. From exhibitions created especially for the occasion in collaboration with contemporary and antiquarian art galleries, to the exhibition that recounts the latest experiments of very young artists, with a selection by Ettore Favini and Triangolo, in the historic setting of Palazzo Guazzoni Zaccaria.

“Cremona Contemporanea Art week,” says Luca Burgazzi, Councillor for Culture of the City of Cremona, “has fully entered the cultural proposals of our city. A proposal that until some time ago might have seemed impossible and instead today sees the whole city involved. A clear signal that has shown that Cremona can continue to open itself to new challenges, including cultural ones. This edition promises to be even richer, with new artists, new places to discover and rediscover, new languages, and therefore will be able to give us new stimuli also for discussion and debate. Culture that does not do this is not culture! So thanks to all the organizers, to the curator Rossella Farinotti, to the private individuals who have supported and are supporting this event, and to all the institutions that have been able to recognize the value of this experience. Cremona and the contemporary art world have found a special synthesis that will have to continue in the future.”

“The first edition of Cremona Contemporanea Art Week, which I like to define as a great ’pilot episode,’” comments Rossella Farinotti, artistic director of Cremona Contemporanea | Art Week, “has been an extraordinary adventure. A project that started thanks to the work of a small team that, in a short time, but with great energy, care and passion, managed to activate specific and meaningful narratives in each chosen place in the city. The quality of the project was determined by the deep dialogue between the artists and the host places. In fact, the works told, highlighted, and punctuated aspects of Cremona with respect and in relation to the symbols and stories of this special city. Once again this year the artists invited to participate, outside and inside institutional or private places, including some that had not been open to the public for decades, came from different generations and backgrounds. Cremona Contemporanea Art Week 2024 emerges with even more energy and new projects, becoming an experimental incubator that makes Cremona, for a week, a crossroads and community of artists and artworks that will trace a rich path propped up by different imaginaries.”

The full program will be available at www.cremona-artweek.com.

A week dedicated to visual arts: Cremona Contemporary Art Week returns

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