(ANSA) - ROME, NOVEMBER 24 - The guiding image entrusted to the projects of 20 artists, "because today more than ever it is important to underline the sense of community and collectivity" and an edition moved to December 5 to give space - pandemic permitting - the possibility for someone of even physical opening to visitors.
The Giornata del Contemporaneo is back, the initiative launched by Amaci, the association of Italian museums dedicated to contemporary art, which has been opening the doors of museums and artist studios for free for sixteen years, and this time is preparing to welcome visitors with a hybrid format, largely virtual but not only, hoping that the next dpcm will allow the reopening of art places.
And in any case with so much variety of expressions and many international events, aiming to network in Italy and at the same time underlining the great role that expressions of Italian creativity can have in the world, from Eugenio Tibaldi with his site specific work in Adis Abeba up to Stockholm, where an installation by Monica Bonvicini will be mounted on the roof of the splendid building designed by the great Gio Ponti that houses the Institute of Italian culture.
Presented to the press by President Lorenzo Giusti, with Deputy Foreign Minister Marina Sereni and Undersecretary for Cultural Heritage Anna Laura Orrico, the event will not stop on December 5th but with the hashtag #giornatadelcontemporaneo, it will give life, up to the 11 to a week of promotion of Italian contemporary art abroad.
The objective, explains Giusti, is also to transform a necessity into an opportunity with a communication campaign involving together with museums and ateliers "publishers, magazines, blogs, schools".
Not therefore an anniversary in a minor tone, especially since there are already more than 500, Giusti underlines, "the realities that have joined", if anything, an opportunity to go further, to gather together what is undoubtedly "a challenge" and strengthen the Italian commuty of art trying, right here to imagine the future.
An initiative, emphasizes Deputy Minister Sereni, "which the government and the foreign ministry support and follow with great attention" with the idea of transmitting the message "that culture does not stop and the world of artists is active and vital".
Because if this is true, undersecretary Mibact Orrico points out that in Italy "the world of culture in Italy was among the most affected by the pandemic" it is also true that art and creativity are among the sectors "that most they were able to react and demonstrate how important culture is for the country ".
From 5 to 11 December, therefore, all the digital projects proposed by the Amaci Museums, the videos of the Contemporary Places network of the Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity of the MiBACT, the list of all the activities organized by the Maeci foreign network and the names of all the adherents to the Giornata del Contemporaneo will be on www.giornatadelcontemporaneo.org as well as being promoted on the social channels of the Association and on those of all the realities involved.
A flood of exhibitions, performances, videos.
But also meetings, round tables, lectures, debates, meetings with artists.
All together to tell and present to the Italian and international public the creativity and vision of the future of a country that, like the 20 artists involved in the guiding image, from Paola Angelini (Ca 'Pesaro) to Emilio Vavarella (Maxxi) passing through Silvia Giambrone (Museo del Novecento) Nunzio (National Institute of Graphics) Marinella Senatore (Centro Pecci) and Justin Randolph Thompson (Mother) just to name a few, choose to talk about themselves in the plural, responding with collective commitment to the challenge of the virus.
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