Savona opens up to contemporary art with CONNEXXION festival and Arteam Cup 2022

From Nov. 26, 2022 to Jan. 7, 2023, Savona will open up to contemporary art with the widespread festival CONNEXXION - 12 artists for 12 places, which aims to offer testimony to the regenerative value of art, and with the exhibition of the 70 finalists of Arteam Cup 2022, hosted inside the Palazzo del Commissario on the Priamàr Fortress.

Both projects, conceived and implemented by theArteam Cultural Association of Albissola Marina in close dialogue with institutions and private individuals, have enabled and will enable citizens and tourists to experience art through the exhibitions and installations, as well as performances, workshops and talks with free access, the program of which, which is constantly being updated, is available at www.connexxion.it.

CONNEXXION, Festival Diffuso di Arte Contemporanea, curated by Livia Savorelli, is realized with the contribution and patronage of the City of Savona, the contribution of the Agostino De Mari Foundation, the contribution of the Region of Liguria and the support of Costa Crociere. Welcomed with great enthusiasm by the municipal administration and developed in synergy with Nicoletta Negro, councillor for the Comprensorial Policies of Culture and Tourism, the Festival starts from the assumption that Culture, being connected to individual and collective development, is an indispensable resource for social cohesion and the biopsychosocial health of the community. The subtitle, Reconnecting from the City, emphasizes the open and inclusive project nature of the event, focused on relational and participatory art.

Twelve artists(Andrea Bianconi, Eleonora Chiesa, Vanni Cuoghi, Giovanni Gaggia, Loredana Galante, L’orMa, Ilaria Margutti, Camilla Marinoni, Vincenzo Marsiglia, Alice Padovani, Francesca Romana Pinzari and Mona Lisa Tina) were invited to experience Savona and create a project connected to a place in the city, discovering its architectural beauties and cultural specificities, but also its criticalities, starting with those who define and constitute the city, namely its inhabitants. The artists’ stories and research were thus interwoven with those of the place, giving rise to new narratives and paths of meaning. Fundamental to the realization of the Festival was the involvement of local institutions (City of Savona, Archaeological Museum, Savona Ceramics Museum, Sistine Chapel, Chapel of theformer Civic Hospital of San Paolo di Savona, Brandale Tower, Episcopal Seminary), the city’s galleries (GULLIarte, Vico Spinola Art Gallery, Temide Design Art Store) and several Savona businesses (Atelier a picagetta and Ristorante Bino), with the valuable collaboration of those who run them.

Also, as anticipated, inside the Palazzo del Commissario on the Priamàr Fortress, the exhibition of the finalists of Arteam Cup 2022, a national competition now in its seventh edition that aims to support artists of the present, helping to outline professionalizing paths, can be visited. The Jury, composed of Matteo Galbiati (art critic and lecturer, Espoarte Web Director and Arteam internal member), Maria Vittoria Pinotti (art historian, author and independent critic), Davide Sarchioni (art historian, curator and consultant), Livia Savorelli ( Espoarte Editorial Director), Antonello Tolve (lecturer, art critic and director of the Fondazione Filiberto e Bianca Menna) and Maria Chiara Wang (critic and curator), will identify a winner for each category - Painting, Sculpture and Photography - and, among them, the overall winner.

The finalists in the Painting Section, which also includes Drawing, Illustration, Engraving and Graphics, are: Federica Aiello Pini, Vittorio Asteriti, Valentina Biasetti, Elisa Cella, Giuseppe Ciracì, Nadia Fanelli, Elisa Filomena, Vincenzo Frattini, Augusto Gadea, Serena Gamba, Alessandro Giampaoli, Asako Hishiki, Pierluigi Lanzillotta, Chen Li, Nataly Maier, Angelo Maisto, Antonio Marchetti Lamera, Marco Massarotti, Nunzio Paci, Valentina Palazzari, Francesca Romana Pinzari, Maurizio Pometti, Camilla Rossi, Ilaria Simeoni, Kanaco Takahashi, Francesco Totaro, Maria Constanza Villarreal. Finalists in the Sculpture Section, which also includes Installation, are: Antonio Barbieri, Flavia Bigi, Giuseppe Buffoli, Alessio Cardenia, Rita Casdia, David Cesaria, Federica Cipriani, Sabino de Nichilo, Nicola Evangelisti, Gaggia-Dubbini, Nadia Galbiati, Ilaria Gasparroni, Monica Gorini, Carla Iacono, Margherita Levo Rosenberg, Ilaria Margutti, Camilla Marinoni, Alberto Montorfano, Saba Najafi, Giulia Nelli, Alice Padovani, Samantha Passaniti, Diego Randazzo, mCLp studio - Resmini & Pellegrino, Fabrizio Sannicandro, Giulia Spernazza, Alena Tonelli, Elena Tortia, Ivano Troisi. The finalists in the Photography Section, which also includes Video Art and New Media Art, are: Nicola Bertellotti, Luca Campestri, Cristian Castelnuovo, Alberto Ceresoli and Carmela Cosco, Charlie Davoli, Loredana Galante, Roberto Ghezzi, Pierpaolo Lista, Angelo Marinelli, Vale Palmi, Beatrice Pediconi, Lucrezia Roda, Mona Lisa Tina, Narda Zapata.

The winners of Arteam Cup 2022, will be announced at the award ceremony, which will be held on Saturday, January 7, 2023 at 4:30 p.m. in the Sibyl Hall . The exhibition, realized with the support of Costa Crociere, is accompanied by a catalog published by Vanillaedizioni. The Palazzo del Commissario (C.so Mazzini, Savona) is open to the public on Thursdays and Fridays from 3-6 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and 3-6 p.m. Free admission.

For information about Connexxion and Arteam Cup 2022: T. +39 019 4500744, info@arteam.eu, www.arteam.eu, www.connexxion.it, www.arteamcup.it.

Savona opens up to contemporary art with CONNEXXION festival and Arteam Cup 2022

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