2023
SEMINARIA DREAMINTERRA
PRESENTS
BIENNIAL ENVIRONMENTAL ART FESTIVAL VII EDITION
curated by Marianna Fazzi
Maranola, Formia
25 – 26 – 27 August 2023
Next Aug. 25, in the historic center of Maranola di Formia, the Seminaria Sogninterra Biennial Environmental Art Festival returns for its seventh edition, presenting site-specific and unpublished works by 16 artists of national and nonnational scope. The Festival is curated by Marianna Fazzi with Mattia Fernando Biagetti and organized by the Seminaria Sogninterra association.
In an exhibition itinerary of nearly a kilometer, environmental installations, video projections, murals, sculptures and interactive works will animate the alleys, gardens and towers of the ancient village of Maranola, overlooking the Gulf of Gaeta. The artists , Amusement, Giulia Apice, Sara Bernabucci, John Cascone / Veronica Cruciani, Alessandro Cocchia, Iginio De Luca, Carlo De Meo, Rocco Lombardi, Veronica Neri, Antonio Palma, Daniela Perego, Gino Sabatini Odoardi, Donatella Spaziani, Strati Collective, Studio Clichè and Wang Yuxiang will be called to dialogue with the place and its inhabitants through projects that are the result of the residencies held during the year, fundamental moments of preparation and an integral part of the Festival.
The key, in fact, is the involvement and spontaneous adherence by those who inhabit the territory, adopting the artists and opening their homes to the public. Seminaria proposes an independent and different vision of contemporary art usable, even, outside the strictly deputed places and an engine of economic, cultural and social development of the territory.
John Cascone, Iginio De Luca, Carlo De Meo, Rocco Lombardi, Gino Sabatini Odoardi, Donatella Spaziani, are the artists called again to reflect on the relationship between society and territory, along a path that winds through the village, rewritten also thanks to the permanent works, donated by artists during the previous editions, such as “Apocrypha” and “I’ll say she is” by Christian Ghisellini, “In nessun luogo poggiare” by Delphine Valli, “Inundazione” by Elena Gubanova & Ivan Govorkov, “Sans Saint Michele” by Nicola Rotiroti, “Maranola città etica” by Già Piacentini and “Accomodati” by Cecilia Viganò.
The collaboration with the Academies of Fine Arts, the research and involvement of younger artists including: Amusement, Giulia Apice, Veronica Neri, Wang Yuxiang makes Seminaria a moment of confrontation and contamination between the different generations and researches of the contemporary scene.
After the difficult times due to the pandemic, the Festival returns to its traditional appointment with renewed enthusiasm. The free and participatory theme of Seminaria is designed to allow for the unrestricted expression of each artist’s interiority, which is declined, through contact with the community, as a choral experience and an opportunity for contamination between history, the inhabitants of the village and among the artists themselves.
A time, under the auspices of art, to be able to reconnect with one’s neighbor and return to inhabit those forgotten places but filled with history, transforming tradition into regeneration.
