Baroque Blue: Ionian SeArts Residency in Italy 2022

BAROQUE BLUE: Ionian SeArt Residency (Visual Arts & Performing Arts)

“A sensory journey in the past and return to future”

From 9 to 20 September 2022

Santa Caterina di Nardò (Lecce, Italy)

Curated by Dores Sacquegna

Management: Primo Piano LivinGallery

With this project Primo Piano LivinGallery, is investigating various fields of exploration, which conceive exhibition and creative planning as a device capable of triggering short circuits, involving communities and artists, activating virtuous relationships between disciplines and knowledge. The art project philosophy engaging in loose reflections ranging from a symbiotic human being-nature relationship to the respect for biodiversity, to the concept of travel as an experience and union of styles, cultures, tradition and visions.

Primo Piano Art Residency constitute an alternative educational program for independent artists to work in a community of peers who share a unique and rich in history environment. Our goal is to provide artists with a variety of stimulating experiences with which they can conceive new projects or deepen established creative practices.

Santa Caterina di Nardò, it is an Ionian seaside place in the province of Lecce.  The coast is jagged with stretches of rock and sand. The sea is blue flag in the Southern of Italy. Each day artists will work in a different landscape and they will have enough time to get involved with each scenario.  Beaches, pine forests, rocks, towers, ancient hypogea and sunsets over the sea, offer moments to relax, to meditate and experience a deep contact with yourself. Past and future will be mixed as pigments of a visionary picture to drawing every day. The experience program includes: accomodation in villas, days of site-specific work, excursions with guided tours, workshops and much more. Furthermore, the on-site participation of our curator Dores Sacquegna, is foreseen, who will follow the artists during the working phases and beyond, with individual feedback and round tables with the other artists.

September is a beautiful summer period ... the weather temperatures in Puglia are high, until the middle of October!

DEADLINE 2022, JUNE 30TH

APPLY SOON as places are limited!