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From July 16 to Aug. 31, 2022, the second edition of Contemporary Landscapes, a contemporary art project strongly desired by the Municipality of Radicondoli, will be held in the medieval village of Radicondoli, which aims to establish the town overlooking the Sienese metal hills as a place of cultural and artistic production and as a privileged space for intercultural and intergenerational dialogue.

Curated by the Municipality of Radicondoli and in collaboration with Radicondoli Arte, the project includes exhibitions, site-specific and sound installations created by Franco Ionda, Giuseppina Giordano, Mirio Cosottini, and Paolo Fabiani in a number of places in the village that have been disused or unused over the past few years, revitalizing them in a new dimension. The intent is to make art using the landscape and urban context not only as the subject, but as the very matter of the work, giving importance to aesthetic research but above all to the signs of man, his passage and his memory. Artists have been invited to think interventions specifically for Radicondoli: Franco Ionda intervenes with Capturing the reflection, cast aluminum forms inserted in the historic center at the entrance of the village, an invitation to look up; Giuseppina Giordano with her installation Abbracci, a project curated by Culture attive, placed near the walls and conceived during her residency in May 2020 with the inhabitants of Radicondoli and Belforte, restores new life to a marginal and little-used place; Mirio Cosottini, a musician and researcher of sounds and atmospheres, builds a sound architecture in a grove of holm oaks not far from the village and presents drawings inspired by his philosophical and musical research. Curated by Fabio Gori, a collector attentive to the artistic expressions of contemporary change, Paolo Fabiani leaves the marks of his Occitania work in various spaces of the urban geography of the village, also accomplishing a high-impact performance.

In addition, Lo schermo dell’arte, a film and contemporary art festival, will present Philippe Béziat’s film Gallant Indies, a backstage performance of the eighteenth-century opera Les Indes Galantes produced by the Opéra Bastille in 2019, which saw the directorial debut of French artist Clément Cogitore. Involving dancers and choreographers hip hop, krump, break, voguing from the Parisian banlieue, the film shows how a piece composed in 1735 can still speak to younger generations.

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