Cremona's first art week kicks off. Here are the works of Cremona Contemporanea

It opened last May 26, and will last until June 4, the highly anticipated Cremona Contemporanea Art Week , an event organized by the Cremona City Council Culture Department. This new art week, in its first edition, sees contemporary art in dialogue with the rich artistic and cultural heritage of the city of Cremona.

Giving life to the first edition of Cremona Contemporanea Art Week, curated by Rossella Farinotti, is a selection of twenty-one contemporary artists active on the international scene, different in terms of training and generation but selected by the curatorship because of their impact and in dialogue with the chosen places: Alessandro Agudio, Andrea Bocca, Gianni Caravaggio, Linda Carrara, Maurizio Cattelan, Nicole Colombo, Ettore Favini, Silvia Giambrone, Christian Holstad, Invernomuto, Francesco Joao, Beatrice Marchi, Silvia Mariotti, Oliver Mosset, Giovanni Ozzola, Alice Ronchi, Andreia Santana, Adelisa Selimbasic, Valdrin Thaqi, The Cool Couple, and Luca Trevisani are called upon to immerse themselves in the scenarios dense with history and culture that dot Cremona and its surroundings.

The works, some of them specially commissioned for the occasion, are presented according to a diffuse exhibition project in dialogue with the treasures of the city of Cremona, which will thus enjoy a possibility of reinterpretation through the experiments of contemporary art. The itinerary intends to create an unprecedented itinerary aimed at retracing and rediscovering the many traces of the cultural richness and vitality that have characterized Cremona’s history over time. Drawing on the extraordinary historical-artistic capital of the city of Cremona, traditionally identified as a crossroads of change and fertile ground for multiple cultural and socio-political ferments, Cremona Contemporanea Art Week aims to trace a path through history involving historic palaces, squares, churches, workshops, private galleries and disused places to be returned to the community.

There are fourteen “stations” that draw the path of the first edition, outlining its scope from Palazzo Comunale to Museo Diocesano, from Triangolo Galleria d’Arte to Parco Colonie Padane, from Battistero del Duomo to Robolottisei space, from the former San Carlo church to the recently restored Palazzo Guazzoni Zaccaria.

Explains Rossella Farinotti, curator of the event, “About a year after my first meeting with Cremona’s Councillor for Culture, who called me to reactivate some of the precious places of this historic city through dialogue with contemporary artists, I am happy to share this teamwork. Cremona becomes a place of careful experimentation by the artists called to interact with the spaces, activating an important challenge within realities dense with history and complexity. The event will be activated by an exhibition path traced by valuable works, performances and meetings open to the public where interior and exterior will coincide developing a network within the urban fabric of this city.”

The week began with the unveiling of Ego, the site-specific work created especially for Cremona by Maurizio Cattelan, and came to a close with a performance by Invernomuto at the Colonie Padane next to the Po. Flanking the exhibition project is a busy schedule of events for the public, with a calendar of off exhibitions, talks, lectures, workshops, screenings at the Filo cinema and collective projects for young artists, which will be made available on the CC /AW website where a map can be followed with all the stages and artists in the exhibition.

Cremona Contemporanea Art Week aims to transform the city into a place of knowledge and discovery, including contemporary art installations, educational opportunities and moments dedicated to the art of the present and the past, where the work of art is the echo and guide of a journey to rediscover the beauty of the territory and its history.

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Cremona's first art week kicks off. Here are the works of Cremona Contemporanea

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