Building on the success of the first edition, which recorded over 15 thousand visitors, Contemporary Cremona | Art Week returns to occupy the public and private spaces of the territory, from Saturday 18 May to Sunday 26 May 2024, with a greater international dimension and greater integration of contemporary art with local heritage. In fact, there will be 27 places – double compared to the previous edition – including historic buildings, squares, museums, galleries, churches, antiques workshops, theatres, institutes, universities and disused places, where you can discover the works of 19 contemporary artists . Active on the international scene, they were invited by the curator Rossella Farinotti to immerse himself in the scenarios of the Cremona area to animate this exhibition created with his artistic direction and coordination of CFAgency.
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The 19 international artists for the second edition of Cremona Contemporanea
Thomas Berra, Federico Cantale, Victoria Colmegna, Lucia Cristiani, Luca De Angelis, Luca De Leva, Jeremy Deller, Roberto Fassone, Claire Fontaine, Francesco Gennari, Judith Hopf, Michele Lombardelli, Nevine Mahmoud, Jonas Mekas, Daniele Milvio, Ornaghi&Prestinari, Emma Talbot, Patrick Tuttofuoco, Zoe Williams are the artists involved for Cremona Contemporanea Art Week 2024. During the event, promoted by the Department of Culture of Cremona with the collaboration of the Province of Cremona, the Chamber of Commerce of Cremona and Confcommercio province of Cremona, a program of events is planned for the public between talks, conferences, performances, screenings and concerts open to all. We asked its artistic director Rossella Farinotti to draw an ideal itinerary among the news and highlights of this second edition.
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Interview with Rossella Farinotti, artistic director of Cremona Contemporanea Art Week
What are the strengths of this event that have led it successfully to its second edition?
This year we have expanded our research to several new places, some of which have been rediscovered and restored to allow artists and works to dialogue. Therefore, certainly a strong point is linked to this aspect: 27 locations, between public and private, between ancient and modern, to be discovered through the installations specifically designed by the artists.
What’s new this year
A novelty, which is certainly a strong point, is the project Sparks. These are eight projects that have a life of their own, co-curated by us, in collaboration with artists, galleries and collectives, who we invited to stay in the city for the whole week.
How?
For example, at Palazzo Vidoni, after being welcomed by a work by Luca De Angelis dedicated to Cremona, and by some sculptural traces by Zoe Williams, a refined exhibition dedicated to antiquity was set up, curated by the Longari and Cantore galleries, to activate a dialogue with the ancient and, in this case, the female theme. Still in Faville, however, dedicated to young people, there are Progetto Ludovico (Spazio Torriani, which also hosts Galerie Conradi in Hamburg) and the collective No Future, curated by Ettore Favini and Triangolo, at Palazzo Guazzoni, which also hosts a project on textiles by Roberto Amoroso. To name a few.
What are the initiatives not to be missed?
We have many highlights, perhaps all of them, if we think about the care with which every single installation was designed by the artists. From the widespread projects of Lucia Cristiani, up to the path of Jeremy Deller, who displays, in two symbolic places (Casa Stradivari and Palazzo Raimondi, home of the University of Pavia) two of his now “historic” videos with two works created for Cremona Art Week. Francesco Gennari is located in two places reopened several years ago, with a special project, and a track at the Triangle, where there will be a personal exhibition by Federico Cantale, also present in the Municipality. Here, let’s say that all the artists of the Art Week are worth seeing, with the map and our website in hand.
Claudia Giraud
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