Una Boccata d'Arte, contemporary art spread across twenty villages in Italy, returns

From June 25 to September 18, 2022, the appointment with Una Boccata d’Arte, the contemporary art project spreadthroughout Italy promoted by Fondazione Elpis in collaboration with Galleria Continua, with the participation of Threes Productions, returns to enhance the link between art and historical, artistic and landscape heritage. Twenty villages in twenty different regions will propose twenty art interventions made by twenty artists of different ages, cultures, geographical origins and artistic languages.

Also new in this third edition will be the presence of a twenty-first artist who will propose a special project capable of connecting all the villages.

From Valle d’Aosta to Sardinia, Una Boccata d’Arte will see in situ the unseen installations of Antonio Della Guardia in the village of Morgex (AO) in Valle d’Aosta; Natàlia Trejbalovà in Neive (CN) in Piedmont; Alice Ronchi in Montemarcello, a hamlet of Ameglia (SP) in Liguria; Alina Kleytman in Cigognola (PV) in Lombardy; Giulia Mangoni in San Lorenzo Dorsino (TN) in Trentino-Alto Adige; Lucia Cantò in Malamocco, hamlet of Venezia (VE) in Veneto; Riccardo Benassi in Pesariis, hamlet of Prato Carnico (UD) in Friuli-Venezia Giulia; Diana Policarpo in Montegridolfo (RN) in Emilia-Romagna; Serhiy Horobets in Sorano (GR) in Tuscany; Luis López-Chávez in Panicale (PG) in Umbria; Eva Marisaldi in San Costanzo (PU) in Marche; Dessislava Madanska in the village of Fumone (FR) in Lazio; Victor Fotso Nyie in Rocca San Giovanni (CH) in Abruzzo; Tommaso Spazzini Villa in Castropignano (CB) in Molise; Fabrizio Bellomo in Albori, a hamlet of Vietri sul Mare (SA) in Campania; Simone Bacco in Spinazzola (BT) in Apulia; Hanne Lippard in Grottole (MT) in Basilicata; Anna Zvyagintseva in San Donato di Ninea (CS) in Calabria; Isaac Chong Wai in the village of Castiglione di Sicilia (CT) in Sicily; and Ludovica Carbotta in Aggius (SS) in Sardinia.

Born in 2020 at the height of the pandemic, Una Boccata d’Arte is a choral and original project that takes the form of a special cultural itinerary that invites the public to discover twenty new Italian villages each year, with their age-old traditions and beautiful landscapes, far from the main tourist flows and art circuits. The villages thus become the privileged place to give rise to an authentic and close encounter with contemporary art.

Selected by the promoters of the initiative, the twenty artists, including emerging voices and more established names, are invited to spend a short period of residence within a village, entering into a relationship with its history and identity. After a phase of listening, exploration and planning, each artist will return to the community asite-specific installation, produced specifically in relation to the territory and the lived experience: twenty interventions of the most diverse art forms, from painting and sculpture to photography, video, sound and performance, will thus be born.

"A Breath of Art is a widespread, nationwide project of collective participation in beauty and culture, outdoors and in safety, created as a reaction to the pandemic to bring a signal of encouragement to local communities and at the same time create an opportunity for expression and experimentation for talented young artists,“ explains Marina Nissim, President of Elpis Foundation. ”I am happy that it is becoming a recognized and expected annual event, able to propose to the public itineraries that are always interesting, villages to discover and artists full of creative energy, activating a virtuous circle that enhances Italian heritage and territory through art."

Image: Giuseppina Giordano, KONFETTI(rägnò morceaux di primavera), Gressonei-Saint-Jean (Aosta). A Mouthful of Art 2021. Photo by Claudiu Asmarandei

Una Boccata d'Arte, contemporary art spread across twenty villages in Italy, returns

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