PARMA 360: the third edition from April 14 to June 3, 2018

For the third consecutive year, the appointment with PARMA 360: Festival of Contemporary Creativity returns and will take place between April 14 and June 3. The Parma festival will be enriched by a program of exhibitions, initiatives and events that show a 360-degree look at the Italian contemporary creativity system and a focus on emerging creativity, counting talents such as Davide Coltro, Francesco Diluca, Franco Fontana, Giovanni Frangi, Pietro Geranzani, Carlo Mattioli, Ernesto Morales, Barbara Nati and Daniele Papuli.

Curated by Camilla Mineo and Chiara Canali, the festival is organized by the associations 360° Creativity Events and Art Company, with the support of the City of Parma and “Parma, io ci sto!” and a wide network of public and private partners.

The theme of this edition is environmental sustainability and the relationship between man, nature and landscape, a common thread linking all the exhibitions, installations and events of the initiative. On the occasion of the Festival, the doors of another city jewel will reopen: the cruise of theOspedale Vecchio in Oltretorrente, a monument of recognized historical value, where the exhibition projects of four important Italian authors are collected: Lotteria Farnese is the title of the exhibition by Giovanni Frangi(Milan, 1959) consisting of twenty large-scale canvases with landscape motifs drawn on fabric, recalling the famous cycle of D’Avalos tapestries present in the Farnese Collection at the Capodimonte Museum.

Argentine painter Ernesto Morales(Montevideo, 1974), with his project La Forma e le Nuvole (The Shape and the Clouds), curated by Chiara Canali, reflects on the ambivalent nature of clouds, an element that is both celestial and terrestrial, material and symbolic, metaphorical and real.
The complex digital compositions of Barbara Nati(Rome, 1980), in the exhibition Alla deriva curated by Camilla Mineo, bring to the viewer’s attention the dramatic disparity between the overflowing man-made structures made of concrete, iron and asphalt, and the melancholy scraps of space dedicated to nature.
In the Church of San Tiburzio, the ancient church that is part of theAsp Ad Personam building, there are works by Pietro Geranzani(London, 1964) and Daniele Papuli(Maglie, 1971).
Studio Mattavelli Dottori Commercialisti Associati hosts the exhibition Carlo Mattioli in Parma Collections, curated by Alberto Mattia Martini and Anna Zaniboni, in collaboration with theCarlo Mattioli Archive.

In the area of the former SCEDEP, in Via Pasubio 3, in the San Leonardo District, a path of urban redevelopment and cultural regeneration will be activated and developed, through a process of space recovery and enhancement through the organization of exhibitions, initiatives, concerts.

The 360 VIRAL section of the Festival will involve the public in a diffuse artistic path in the historic center, with the aim of reviving and promoting the most vital and present artistic culture in the area. All of Parma’s creative spaces will be at the call: galleries, professional studios, coworking, wine stores, and stores for a rich and curious exhibition offer.

The third edition of the Festival also kicks off a Call to Illustrators titled “Parmalat and Environmental Sustainability” intended for creative artists, illustrators, graphic designers, draftsmen and artists called to propose an image that interprets Parmalat ’s attention to environmental sustainability issues.
A privileged exhibition space in the center of the city is dedicated to the competition: the historic 19th-century Wayside Shrine in Piazza della Steccata, which will be covered, during the Festival period, with the graphics of the three works declared winners by a jury of experts.
Exhibitions program:

- Church of San Quirino

Borgo Romagnosi 1a

FRANCO FONTANA/DAVIDE COLTRO

Flatlands

Curated by Chiara Canali

- Old Hospital

Massimo D’Azeglio Road 45

GIOVANNI FRANGI

Farnese Lottery

Edited by Michele Bonuomo

ERNESTO MORALES

Form and Clouds

Curated by Chiara Canali

In collaboration with Area 35 Art Gallery, Milan

BARBARA NATI

Adrift

Curated by Camilla Mineo

FRANCESCO DILUCA

Germina

Curated by Davide Caroli

- Church of San Tiburzio

University Str. 8

PIETRO GERANZANI

The Cosmic Egg

In collaboration with Area 35 Art Gallery, Milan

DANIELE PAPULI

Visions

- Studio Mattavelli

Str. della Repubblica 66

CARLO MATTIOLI IN THE COLLECTIONS OF PARMA

Curated by Alberto Mattia Martini and Anna Zaniboni

In collaboration with the Carlo Mattioli Archives

Hours Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

On other days by appointment by calling 348/5823569.

Hours (for all exhibition venues except Studio Mattavelli): Friday through Monday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Special openings: April 25, May 1, June 2.
For all information you can email info@parma360Festival.it.

PARMA 360: the third edition from April 14 to June 3, 2018

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