Laura Pugno in Bibione with two unpublished works that investigate the climate crisis
The exhibition will be open from 14 April to November 1st.
The event will be part of the “Calma flat. Pensieri per smuovere le acque” in programma a Bibione dal 10 al 14 April
After the preview in Lignano, con l’ottava edizione di ‘Cleanin March’ (which saw the participation of around 80 volunteers and the collection of approximately 200 kg between plastic and polystyrene), everything is ready for the first edition of the festival “Calm calm. Thoughts to move the waters " That it will instead start in April, to celebrate "National Sea Day".
FLAT CALM – It will take place in Bibione, where the Menti Libere association will organize – collaboration with the WWF Marine Protected Area of Miramare, ISPRA Venezia e Ca’ Foscari Venezia; the patronage and financing of the Municipality of San Michele al Tagliamento with the contribution of Bibione Green&Smart and Lions Club Bibione and Lignano – a series of events dedicated to the sea and the defense of its ecosystem through the arts and scientific dissemination. «“Calm calm. Thoughts to move the waters ", in its first edition, was born from the desire to stir consciences and encourage thoughts and actions aimed towards the common objective of safeguarding the important marine environmental heritage, strongly affected by the effects of climate change and the anthropic impact on its ecosystem», ha ricordato Sandri che ha anche ricordato come «at the end of the festival (Sunday 14 April, at 10, Free admission) we will inaugurate the exhibition of the artist Laura Pugno, open to visitors until November 1st, with the curatorship of Annalia Boldrin».
THE EXHIBITION AND THE RESIDENCE – The works exhibited will be the output of research that the artist developed during the week of residency in March. Laura Pugno was invited to relate to the coastal landscape of Bibione and investigate the urgencies of the climate crisis, placing the lens and listening to the sea. The result of his artistic residency are two works. In Losing sight of the shore (2024), the artist engraves a concretion of clay re-emerged from the erosive action of sea waters, freeing ancient codified correspondences from matter. A tribute to the ammophilous sandstone, typical plant of the coastal dunes of Bibione, whose dense root system consolidates the sandy soil, protecting it from erosion; and a reminder, in the cuneiform lines of the drawing, to the semaphore alphabet used in the past in the navy for communications between land and sea. A warning not to "lose sight of the shore".
L’opera Land Unfolds (2024) recalls the historical memory of the lighthouse with a flag in which the subject is portrayed, a marine horizon, is subjected to a physical and symbolic cut, creating the space for a new terrestrial habitation capable of taking on the fluid and transient traits of the sea. Climate changes are reinterpreted by the artist as the possibility for a new beginning and a new reality in which human beings become the point of contact between sky and sea, a part of a single, universal, tale. The work will be presented to the public as early as Thursday 11 April at 18, on the occasion of National Sea Day, with a participatory performance along the shore of Bibione beach (meeting in via raccoon).
THE PROGRAM – We will begin il 10 April at the Savoy Beach Hotel where Fabio Trincardi will be a guest, marine geologist and geophysicist of the CNR, who will talk about the future of coastal systems and his research expeditions to Antarctica. Following, ci sarà la proiezione del docufilm “Into the ice” del regista Lars Ostenfeld, in the original subtitled version, edited by Cinemazero.
April 11th, there will be a march-performance along the beach, restitution of Laura Pugno's artistic residency. An exhibition will be set up throughout the summer in one of the rooms of the lighthouse, who will illustrate the project in detail, accompanied by photographic and video material.
Il 14 April a whole day of activities is planned at the lighthouse. Among the proposals, una lettura musicata tratta dal libro “Lettere tra due mari” di Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen, performed by the Teatro della Sete company. Also scheduled is the public meeting “Stories of resilience: le sfide del cambiamento climatico e l’importanza degli habitat costieri” and an observation walk of the coastal environment organized by Foce del Tagliamento and WWF Miramare Marine Reserve. The children, Furthermore, they will be able to explore the marine world thanks to the workshops organized by Eupolis. Schools will also be involved, thanks to the support of the Lions Club Bibione and Lignano, in particolare la scuola primaria “Aristide Gabelli” di Bibione, whose students will participate in the last phase of planting in the area at the mouth of the pine forest which was hit by a fire in the summer 2022. In case of bad weather, where possible, the activities will be moved to the conference room of the Municipal Delegation of Bibione, in Via Maja 84. For more information, on both events, consult the association's social pages and website www.mentilibere.org
THE FREE MINDS ASSOCIATION – Menti libera was born in Lignano in 2012 as an association that intends to promote environmental respect and social inclusion through the universal language of art and its potential as a vehicle of communication, change and action. With “Calm calm. Pensieri per smuovere le acque” il collettivo approda per la prima volta a Bibione, with the desire to start a shared path of regeneration of the bond between man and the sea, overcoming regional borders and uniting Lignano and Bibione in the construction of new environmental care behaviors. The sea we live in knows no boundaries.
