Tommaso Sandri

1° Programma di Residenza d’arte contemporanea a Lignano Sabbiadoro

Dal 6 to 11 March it will take place in Lignano Sabbiadoro (UD) il 1° programma di residenza d’arte contemporanea cittadino MigrArt In Residence, inserito all’interno della 2^ Edizione del Festival “MigrArt : Art as an encounter” organized by the Free Minds Association in collaboration with the Municipality of Lignano Sabbiadoro, the beautiful Italy & Efa Village and other local bodies and associations.

The Festival, and consequently the residence, was created to culturally stimulate and raise awareness of a seaside community that, outside the crowded summer season, lives under the banner of a bare creative and aggregative environment.

The aim of the residency is to stimulate a reflection on the dichotomous reality of Lignano but also to encourage the equally difficult encounter between young emerging artists, established artists on the national scene and the host territory.

In fact, they will be Michele Bazzana, Ryts Monet and Kristian Sturi the three versatile artists from Friuli, now consolidated at national level, called to set up the collective exhibition with their works and to play the role of tutor for the nine under-30 emerging artists involved in the organization.

They will be Lorenzo Chinellato, Emma Collauzzo, Andrea D'Arsiè, Alessandro Manfrin, Noah Merlini, Francesco Patat, Greta Plana, Tommaso Sandri and Giacomo Zorba who, under the watchful eye of the curator Eva Comuzzi and the supervision of the three main artists, will be accompanied during the five-day residency in setting up the collective within the various exhibition centers but also in elaborating a reflection on the singular context in which they find themselves working, that of a hibernating seaside resort.

To underline this theme, the organization has decided to structure the exhibition in a path including various spaces, institutional ones such as the renovated exhibition hall of Terrazza Mare which will serve as an operational base and atelier, but also the more informal ones with great symbolic value such as some places that sadly remain vacant in the off-season months.

On March 11 at 18 it will be the moment of the inauguration full of surprises inside the Terrazza Mare in the presence of the curator and the artists which will be followed by a guided tour of the various exhibition spaces.

The collective will be usable for the entire duration of the Festival on Saturdays and Sundays and will see its conclusion with the finissage of the 25 March, same time same place, with a talk by the artists Isabella and Tiziana Pers of RAVE Residency which will be followed by the final event with the presentation of the paper publication.

Big names and many new ambitious projects will color the March of Lignano

After the unexpected success of the 1st edition of the MigrArt Festival in March 2017 the time has come for the Free Minds Association to announce the advent of the second edition of the MigrArt Festival : Art as an encounter that this year too will see the usually bare March of Lignano colored with new stimuli.

Many guests and illustrious names who will be called upon to broaden the horizons on the ever-current themes of respect for the environment and hospitality and many exciting new ingredients which, in addition to the usual appointments with, cinema and environmental actions will embellish the cultural review.

It will start in February with the interactive testimonies of the MigrArt travel project with the classes of the First Level Secondary School who will prepare the third-year students for the big event of the 16 March with Don Pierluigi Di Piazza of the Balducci Center in Zugliano (UD).

A suggestive preview of the review will be on Sunday 25 February, at 17, at the Church of St. Maria del Mare where the live multimedia storytelling Radici will take place, a multimedia and multisensory journey in which the roots are represented not as what everything is born from, but what you come back to when you don't know who you are, when uncertain. A show in search of the self in relation to the other which sees the collaboration of the illustrator Cosimo Miorelli and the musicians Roberto Amadeo, Stefano Brgagnolo and Francesco Rossi.

To officially inaugurate the Festival will take care of 27 February the monumental theater project of Human, co-production of Mismaonda with Sardegna Teatro and Marche Teatro which sees the scenographic contribution of Antonio Marras and musical contribution of Paolo Fresu but above all the presence on stage of Marco Baliani and Lella Costa who, during the past edition, he had already delighted the Lignano public with a breathtaking video contribution.

A show full of twists that wants to put the viewer in front of the disorientation towards the great and unfinished theme of migration without providing answers but rather stimulating questions. A migration epic, touching and ironic, in search of that increasingly exiled and necessary humanity.

But Lignano is also an inexhaustible source of artistic inspiration with its breathtaking landscapes and its sometimes schizophrenic alternation between chaotic summer and winter hibernation.

E’ per questo che il 6 In March, the first MigrArt in Residence artistic residency program in Lignano will begin, a short art residency that will see the collaboration of the now consolidated three Friulian artists Michele Bazzana, Ryts Monet and Kristian Sturi who will carry out a tutoring with the nine under30 artists selected by the artistic fabric of the Triveneto.

The aim of the program is to give young artists the opportunity to meet and learn from the senior artists involved but also to stimulate reflection on the sometimes schizophrenic reality of Lignano which sees it teeming with lights and tourists in the summer and a desolate town in winter.

E’ per questo motivo che l’organizzazione ha deciso anche di articolare la mostra in vari poli espositivi, institutional ones such as the Terrazza Mare and informal ones such as some clubs that sadly remain vacant in the winter months.

March 11th, under the supervision of the curator Eva Comuzzi, the inauguration of the collective result of the residence will take place inside the renovated exhibition hall of Terrazza Mare which will be followed by a guided tour of the spaces.

Il 7 March will be the turn of the documentary film The New Wild : Life in the Abandoned Lands by the English director but adopted by the resilient mountain community of Dordolla (UD) Christopher Thomson. A poetic vision on the inseparable relationship between man and nature, between landscapes where nature dominates and others where man survives. A journey that sounds like a living monument to that Friuli that oscillates between the past and the paths towards the future.

Another major event will take place on March 8 at Cinecity and will see the evening Women's Day on the front line in which various women involved in social , from war journalism to photography, they will be guests in a recreated television talk show in close collaboration with Radio Onde Furlane, an evening full of stimuli and surprises.

The presenter will dialogue with Giorgia Linardi, Mission Manager of the marine rescue organization Sea Watch, Federica Mameli, freelance photographer who often collaborates with Internazionale, Barbara Schiavulli, war reporter, Michael Sperandio, activist of La Carovana Artistica and actress Aida Talliente.

Una serata quasi tutta al femminile impreziosita dagli interventi musicali del duo Michela Grena e Rosa Mussin e le vignette disegnate in tempo reale dal fumettista friulano Guido ‘Quisco’ Carrara.

Saturday 17 March will be the turn of the second edition of the Meltin'Pot event, festive event of artistic contamination, culturale e gastronomica che anche quest’ anno si svolgerà presso L.Hub Park e vedrà la direzione dello stesso e della Cooperativa Codess.

Sunday 18 March will then be the turn of the now traditional appointment with the Cleanin'March, now in its 5th edition but never out of fashion, which this year will give a dutiful cleaning to the dunes of the Bella Italia pine forest & Efa Village, a now consolidated and increasingly fun appointment with environmental cleaning.

The last event to mark on the agenda will be the finissage of the contemporary art collective on Sunday 25 March, at the Sea Terrace, with an open workshop by sisters Isabella and Tiziana Pers of Rave East Village Artist Residency which will be followed by the presentation of the paper publication of the exhibition and the usual surprises to music and dance at the end of the festival.

A second edition therefore full of unmissable appointments and surprising guests who will anticipate the spring in Lignano.