Spoleto Art Festival 2017
The Spoleto Art Festival enters alive, with important exhibitions and appointments in memory of Mr Giancarlo Menotti.The eighth edition of the "Spoleto Art Festival - Art in the City" directed by Luca Filipponi with the curator of Sandro Trotti it's a very sophisticated calendar of exhibitions and performances ready to invade the old town of Spoleto and transform it into a large sky museum open.
There are many novelties and, above all, the expansions of the Spoleto Art festival in the city of the 2017 edition (Eighth Edition), with a communicative aspect with the strong presence of media and Italian and foreign critics and the partnerships agreed and strengthened with five regions of Central Italy.
The festival it's realized in addition to the patronage and collaboration with the European Parliament with the Italian Presidency of Antonio Tajani and the ONG Unesco of Literary Critics presided over by Neria De Giovanni.
Five hundred thousand contemporary artworks gathered in Spoleto, September 22-25, for incursions into fifty-four spaces between galleries, hotels, churches, theaters and historic houses of the city.
This is the case when we talk about the eighth edition of the "Spoleto Art Festival - Art in the City" directed by Luca Filipponi with the curator of Sandro Trotti because the sense and the uniqueness of the event are in the will to take advantage a sophisticated calendar of exhibitions and shows to invade Spoleto's historic center and transform it into a large open-air museum.
Spoleto Art Festival: 70% of artists are foreigners
"We are convinced that in the 21st century we can not do and promote contemporary art unless there is a real cultural project," said Luca Filipponi, "culture can not be done without culture, but culture without art would be stupid and distorted, especially today. Here is the project: to collect artists, exhibitors, experts and enthusiasts of a visual arts exhibition on the city territory, which serves as a magnifying glass focused on emerging talents and trends, as well as bridges between works of different nationality."70 percent of overseas exhibitors," said Luca Filipponi, "and it is no coincidence that the festival, in its past editions, also resonated in the Chinese and South American media, confirming the increasingly global power of artistic language".
An important result that was offered as a clue to the theme of the 2017 edition: "Art and Communication between Europe, America and China".
Spoleto Art Festival: music, theater and gastronomy
From paintings to sculpture, from photography to video art that passes through the latest generation of installations, all the works that arrive in Spoleto intersect the reflection on the new frontiers of communication, declined according to the possible languages and the many nationalities.Spoleto Art Festival speaks Dutch in the festival poster, signed by Ton Pret.
The City of Mastrich" after Spoleto Art Festival will be exhibited at Moma in New York - Luca Filipponi anticipates - to renew the Umbria-USA axis inaugurated by Giancarlo Menotti: we recycle the methodology: one an open look on the contemporary with particular attention to unproduced productions.
Among the artists present are Domenico Gnoli, Franco Carletti, Annamaria LiGotti, Mohan Testi, Gianpaolo Berto, Sergio Bizzarri, Sandro Cabrini, Manuel Campus and then a series of collateral events ranging from classical music concerts to theatrical performances. is completing the dream of Menotti, "concludes Filipponi," to make Spoleto a theater-city of art and culture.
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