ROVINA flyer of the installation by Ericailcane
ROVINA an installation by Ericailcane inside the abandoned rooms of Porta Pia
organized by MAC – Manifestazioni Artistiche Contemporanee
Porta Pia, Ancona 26 June | 5 September 2010 from Tuesday to Sunday, 19.00-23.00, free entry
Opening Saturday 26 June at h. 19.00
h. 21.00 Carlomargot Live Two guitars exiled from rock and in total withdrawal from riff followed by Carlomargot DjSet
Cocktail bar Raval
The Cultural Association MAC – Manifestazioni Artistiche Contemporanee, launches its 3rd edition of the festival Pop Up! Contemporary art in urban spaces, with one of its most awaited-for appointments of the programme, Rovina, an installation by Ericailcane.
A unique event of its kind; a monographic exhibition dedicated to the artist Ericailcane1, invited to put up site-specific installations and paintings inside the abandoned rooms of Porta Pia. This imposing structure, a monumental entrance to the city, built between 1787 and 1789, preserved by the Superintendence of the Architectural Heritage and Landscape Conservation of the Marche, rises totem-like in front of the Mole of Vanvitelli, hub of the city’s culture. A unique occasion which blends well with the artistic production by Ericailcane, whose works (refined, fantastic engravings and large painted murals) enliven art galleries and streets all over the world, and which gives the artist a one-off opportunity to work on masonry, making an ad hoc creation of great quality (a set of frescoes) especially designed for this site. Entering Porta Pia will be like walking into a book of fairy tales, but with Lewis Carrol’s logic turned upside down, and thus it’s the story that grows bigger and bigger! A story, a fantasy tale which winds through stairs and adjoining rooms (700 m2 of surface over three storeys) an evocative route, stimulated by a poetical quality permeated by visions, fascinations and suggestions of real and fantasy animals.
The event is also an opportunity to reopen Porta Pia to the public – owned by the Customs Police, and currently bestowed for use to the city of Ancona – an abandoned structure, once given over to offices and closed for the last ten years; a structure originally constructed to symbolize the commercial exchange between nations and defend the entrance to the city. These values are currently brought into play, revived, and contemporary art, as a privileged instrument of cultural communication, gives this extraordinary site the opportunity of playing a new role, that of an extemporary exhibition space – premonitory to a desired future cultural destination – to encourage the creation of events that herald trans-national intercultural exchange. An exchange no longer commercial, but now cultural, between the city and the rest of the world. This event is sponsored by the Ministry of Cultural Activities and Heritage. From June 26 and for the whole length of the Festival, the POP UP! Bookshop will be open in Porta Pia, a new, extemporary place where you will find art books of all the artists invited to the festival, limited editions and serigraphs. The Bookshop designed by Roberto Giacomucci is completely fitted with cardboard Kubedesign furnishings, customized by the artist Dem.
ROVINA is an event organized by MAC – Manifestazioni Artistiche Contemporanee Sponsored by: MIBAC – Ministry of Cultural Activities and Heritage with contributions from: City of Ancona, Province of Ancona, Mole Vanvitelli Fund in collaboration with: Superintendence of the Architectural Heritage and Landscape Conservation of the Marche
sponsors: Garbini Consulting, Kubedesign, Raval, ARCI Ancona media partners: Ziguline, Stick my World, Amo la Mole
artistic management: Allegra Corbo
bookshop and organization segretariat: Federica Sdrubolini
reception: Celia Bicci
web editor: William Vecchietti and Giulio Garavaglia
graphic design: Real Dc
bookshop furnishing project: Roberto Giacomucci
bookshop customization: Dem and Ericailcane
light technician: Massimiliano Primitivo
photographic documentation: Luca Forlani
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