Contemporary art, environment and memory.
Fifteen sailing boats with a large 120 meter canvas on board will arrive tomorrow in the port of Villasimius.
The initiative, postponed last December due to bad weather, is promoted by the "Casa Falconieri" research center in collaboration with the municipalities of Dolianova and Villasimius, the Naval League, the Port Authority, the Marine Protected Area and the shipowners Sailing Altura of Sardinia.
The arrival of the boats, which set sail from Cagliari, is scheduled for 11am. The work, created by a team of Sardinian artists led by Gabriella Locci, will be recomposed on land and presented together with fifteen "memory boxes" packaged in Dolianova, inside the Dart Museum.
During the event, the active involvement of visitors and all the citizens of Villasimius is expected, who will be invited to leave a mark or imprint on the canvas.
The students of the elementary school of Dolianova (Comprehensive Institute), of the "Senza backpack" school of Is Bingias/Pirri, of the Comprehensive Institute of via Stockholma in Cagliari as well as the students of the Villasimius Comprehensive Institute were also involved in the project.
«In our journey, water represents the sacred element – says Gabriella Locci, artist and president of Casa Falconieri – the participatory performance, with the addition of new signs and meanings, strengthens the imaginative power of the work itself to reflect on the humanity in movement and therefore on the exchange of cultures, migrations and mixtures".
Ten Sardinian artists involved: Francesca Manca, Daniela Manca, Josephine Sassu, Giampaolo Mameli, Beppe Vargiu, Silvia Ciccu, Tiziano Boi, Sergio Farina, Patrizia Orrù and Anna Saba. The artistic director of the Dart Museum, Dario Piludu, focuses on the "Memory Boxes", small concrete cubes covered in lead and iron.
«Inside they contain a memory with a piece of music by the composer Ettore Carta, a video by the artist Francesco Casu and another with the story of the various moments of the work carried out by Gabriella Locci. They represent the memory of a treasure at the bottom of the sea which, in a hypothetical future, will be able to restore the moments of the entire operation".