A four-stage traveling artist residency program in the Apennines. Telling Italy through art.

From June to September, an itinerant residency program will take place, starting from Rome, crossing the Apennines in four stages in order to investigate and narrate territories through art. It is Linea 1201, conceived by artist Angelo Bellobono, promoted by the association Atla(s)Now, curated by NOS Visual Arts Production and realized with the contribution of the Culture and Art Foundation, an instrumental entity of the Fondazione Terzo Pilastro - Internazionale.

Along the way, the artist will produce a new pictorial series, where en plein air painting will be the key to tell a hidden Italy and promote an idea of slow and conscious cultural tourism. There will be initiatives open to the public organized at each stage, such as excursions and workshops, which will allow people to share paths, reflections and visions together with the artist. On the NOS Visual Arts Production website and Instagram and Facebook channels, it will be possible to follow the online diary of the experience on a regular basis.

The number 1201 in the title represents the length of the mountain range, from the southern edge of Calabrian Aspromonte to Mount Maggiorasca in Liguria. “The highlands,” commented Bellobono, “require a pact of mutual belonging dictated by the body, and the efforts it makes to know and experience them in a sustainably productive and visionary way.” Central will be themes such as isolation and boundaries, the relationship with the landscape and the environment, the changes that have undergone the approach to walking and relationships, and the mountain territory with its unique ways of frequentation.

Line 1201 intends to be a gesture of restart that places artistic practice and its aesthetic and generative power at the center.

Here are the stages of the program:

June 22-28 at the Moulin Hut on the summit of Mount Marrone, in the Mainarde: a rugged and wild mountain range that joins the borders of Lazio and Molise. The Hut had been chosen, in the first half of the 20th century, by French painter Charles Moulin as his home to retreat into pictorial and spiritual hermitage. On Sunday, June 28, the artist will lead the public on an excursion from Castelnuovo a Volturno (hamlet of Rocchetta a Voturno) to the Hut on Mount Marrone to show his work in dialogue with Moulin’s painting.

July 27 to Aug. 2 at the town of Latronico, Basilicata, at the foot of Mount Alpi. On Thursday, July 30 and Friday, July 31, Bellobono will conduct an en plein air painting workshop starting with an excursion open to the public to explore the Mount Alpi area that connects the different regions of Calabria, Lucania and Campania.

In September, Linea 1201 will move to Valsamoggia, in the province of Bologna: thanks to the collaboration with the Fondazione Rocca dei Bentivoglio in Bazzano, the artist will immerse himself in a territory characterized by a more “domesticated” identity, with highly industrialized areas where intensive agriculture and livestock farming coexist. Here the protagonists will be the badlands, strongly typical expressions of the Apennines and treasures of the Italian landscape heritage that, by erosive effect, open on the hillsides true earthy stages.

The program will conclude in Amatrice, on the Latium Apennines within the Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga National Park. Thanks to a collaboration with CAI’s Casa della Montagna, the residency program will expand to involve other artists who will share with Bellobono the collective practice of painting en plein air.

For information on activities open to the public and reservations info@nosproduction.com

A four-stage traveling artist residency program in the Apennines. Telling Italy through art.

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