Procida 2022, from Picasso to Banksy: Artecinema reveals the secrets of contemporary art

Procida 2022, from Picasso to Banksy: Artecinema reveals the secrets of contemporary art. From 14 to 16 July, a special edition of the international festival curated by Laura Trisorio: in the garden of the La Vigna hotel, free screenings of 10 documentaries on major artists, architects and photographers.

Some of the artists and directors of the works were present.

From July 14th to 16th Artecinema, the International Film Festival on Art created by Laura Trisorio, will be in Procida Capital of Culture with a special edition. In the garden of the La Vigna hotel, 21 documentaries on some of the most famous artists, architects and photographers of the contemporary scene will be screened non-stop from 10 pm to midnight.

A precious opportunity to see artists at work in their studios and understand the evolution of the languages ​​of art, through unpublished materials and unusual paths, introduced in person by some of the artists and directors of the works: Pablo Picasso told by photographers, Lucien Clergue, David Douglas Duncan and André Villers; an immersion in the archive of the Renzo Piano Foundation among sketches, models, drawings, hosted in Genoa in the 3000 square meters of a converted factory; an intriguing investigation into the mysterious identity of the famous English street artist Banksy, and much more, discovering international artists and exhibitions.

The Artecinema Festival was born in 1996 with the aim of contributing to the dissemination of the various expressions of art, “a mission fully in line with the program of Procida Italian Capital of Culture, which has demonstrated in recent months how even the general public can be actively involved in cultural processes through the languages ​​of contemporary arts – underlines Agostino Riitano, director of Procida 2022. The two contemporary art exhibitions recently inaugurated, Sprigionarti with works by internationally renowned artists from Fare a Kentrige and the exhibition The Tending of the Otherwise curated by the Biennale of young artists of the Mediterranean, have already been visited and appreciated by thousands of visitors.

The Artecinema Festival is a further element of creative strength that allows us in our year as Capital of Culture to talk and meet citizens, to be able to look even where the gaze of the hasty visitor does not normally rest. In this sense - adds - It is no coincidence that some of the artists who will be featured in the films scheduled at Artecinema correspond to the guest artists in the exhibitions”.

The program

It starts on Thursday 14 July at 20.30:21.00 pm with an introductory moment, followed by the screening of “Roselena Ramistella. L'isola delle femmine” (directed by Francesco G. Raganato; 21.45:22.45 pm, the artist will be present), “Sulle tracce di Maria Lai” (directed by Maddalena Bregani, XNUMX:XNUMX pm), a circular story that begins and ends in Ulassai, the village in the wild heart of Sardinia where Maria Lai was born and where she returned to live in the last years of her life, and “Banksy Most Wanted” (directed by Aurélia Rouvier, Seamus Haley, XNUMX:XNUMX pm).

The program on Friday, July 15 includes “Picasso et les photographes” (directed by Mathilde Deschamps-Lotthé, 21 pm), “Jan Fabre. Spiritual Guards” (directed by Lorenzo Scurati, present at the screening, 21.45 pm), “Renzo Piano. The Power of the Archive” (directed by Francesca Molteni, 22.15 pm) and “Mario Botta. Architecture and Memory” (directed by Francesca Molteni and Fulvio Irace, 23 pm).

The evening of Saturday 16 July will open with the screening of “Objectif femmes” (directed by Julie Martinovic, Manuelle Blanc, 21 pm), a documentary on the history of female photography (in particular on Sarah Moon, Jane Evelyn Atwood, Dorothée Smith and Christine Spengler). Followed by “Novantatremiliardi di albe – Francesco Arena” (directed by Domenico Palma, present at the screening, 22 pm), a film that reveals the journey – through Gallura and Capri – of a pink granite boulder destined for a site-specific work by Francesco Arena, which in turn is on display in Procida in the exhibition “Sprigionarti”. Closing the review “La Rivoluzione siamo noi – Arte in Italia 1967/1977”, (directed by Ilaria Freccia, 22.45 pm), is a story of how Italian art became – between the 60s and 70s – an expression of social and political change, thanks to the opening to artists of the caliber of Joseph Beuys, Herman Nitsch and Marina Abramović.