Grosseto: The city of Grosseto is preparing to welcome a new edition of TRAME Festival – Closed shutters for open artan event created thanks to the contribution of the CR Firenze Foundation, with the patronage of the Municipality of Grosseto and the Province of Grosseto, which from 2020 transformed the city center into an open-air art gallery, thanks to over 40 shutters painted by artists from all over Italy.
From 6 to 9 June, the event returns with a renewed look and a program full of events that promises to involve and amaze visitors through new works on the shutter, talks, projections, live sets and VJ sets.
The theme of this edition is the Future which, as stated in the festival manifesto, imagines itself as anti-boredom, a concept which is the acronym of CLAN (Free Anti-Boredom Collective), but also the real driving force since since its birth, more than ten years ago.
The future imagined by the organizers is a future free from boredom and barriers, a creative and participatory future, felt as a strong need in the city, especially among young people, but not only.
And there’s more: TRAME Festival 24 this year also extends its reach outside the historic centre, with the creation of two new “designer shutters” in the Barbanella district and in Roselle, near Il Poggio, places that are not never personally involved in the cultural events of the Maremma capital.
This expansion underlines CLAN’s desire to spread culture throughout the city, making it accessible to an increasingly wider audience.
Another important novelty is that on this occasion the selection of the artists called to paint the city shutters did not take place through a call for artists, but through the collaboration with two Tuscan realities that deal, like CLAN, with street art and urban regeneration through art: the Street Levels Gallery of Florence and the Mixed Media Association of Poggibonsi.
The five new shutters of the historic center will be the work of Ache77, Kraita317, James Vega, Vaio and Martyna Clark, in addition to those of Trame outside the centre: the work of Gianluca Raro at Il Poggio a Roselle and that of Samuele Pari which will be carried out in Barbanella together with the boys and girls of the OASI Association at Casa AMA where, since 2008, mutual self-help groups to support mental health problems have been created and led by voluntary members.
What emerges this year is the desire to open up to discussion and cooperation with local subjects active in the fields of art and social issues, but also with people who operate outside the province and who deal with similar initiatives in their own territory, to in order to network and exchange visions and good practices.
The talk organized for Friday 7 June should also be understood in this sense, which will revolve around the theme of designing, carrying out and communicating urban regeneration interventions through street art and in which, in addition to local operators, GianGuido Grassi, curator of contemporary art and founder of stART – Open your eyes (Lucca) with which he creates artistic projects with a focus on street art and Giulia “Blocal” Riva (Rome) who has been dealing with urban art as a content creator for over ten years , consultant, writer, urban guide and travel designer.
There will also be space for cinema and music, with the screening of the documentary Visage, Village directed by the famous director Agnès Varda and the international artist JR, edited by Kansassìti, and live sets and VJ sets that will enliven the evenings of Molino Hub, to which will be added the concert of the talented Dario Canal for Trame Extra, Sunday 9 June in Roselle.
In short, also for 2024 CLAN manages to bring to the city a lively wave of events for all tastes with an event that is not “just” an artistic festival, but also an opportunity for reflection and sharing for the community, a moment for imagine together a different, more creative and inclusive future. Don’t miss the opportunity to live an engaging experience where art meets the inhabitants and projects itself towards the future.
Here is the detailed program:
Thursday 6 June
12:00 Digital Media Library of the Maremma, via Chiasso delle Monache 9 – Opening of TRAME 24 and presentation of the artists.
6.30pm Molino Hub, via del Molino a vento 17 – Opening of the Heat Corner and live screen printing with Matteo Bonguerrieri who, for all three days of the festival, will set up his small screen printing workshop inside Molino Hub, the space managed by CLAN at the “Cinghialino” on the walls.
7.00pm Molino Hub – Fluxus DJ set. FluXus is a synthesis of the passion of Cioni and Massi and intends DJing as a philological journey, as an exploration of the possible connections between genres, discographies, and musical eras.
9.30pm Molino Hub – Screening of Visage, Village (2017, 89′) directed by Agnès Varda and JR. Kansassìti presents Visage, Village, a fascinating documentary directed by Agnès Varda and JR. A visual and emotional journey through rural France, where the director and photographer transform chance encounters into extraordinary outdoor photo galleries, exploring the beauty of faces and villages. A film awarded at Cannes and Toronto, which tells the story of the birth of a singular friendship and celebrates art and community. A touching cinematic and human experience.
Friday 7 June
from 10:00 Work in progress works on shutters (Historic centre, Barbanella – Casa Ama, Roselle – il Poggio).
Old Town
Via dell’Unione 51 – James Vega
Via Colombo 35 – Vaio
Via Montanara 14 and 14a – Kraita137
Via Andrea da Grosseto 2a – ACHE77
Plots off center
Barbanella – Casa Ama | shooting
Roselle – Il Poggio | Gianluca Raro
from 6.00pm Molino Hub – Heat Corner, live screen printing with Matteo Bonguerrieri.
6.30pm Molino Hub – Talk “A City of the Future. The art that re-generates”, conversation around designing, making and communicating urban regeneration interventions through street art with Giada Breschi and Mara Pezzopane (CLAN), GianGuido Grassi (stART) and Giulia “Blocal” Riva.
9.30pm Molino Hub – “Leopardi Dark Ambient”, complete soundtrack reading of La Ginestra by Giacomo Leopardi. Musical literary show conceived, written and hosted by Giovanni Succi.
Saturday 8 June
from 10:00 Work in progress works on shutters (Historic centre, Barbanella – Casa Ama, Roselle – il Poggio).
6.30pm TRAME Street Tour: guide to the new works of TRAME Festival with departure and arrival at Molino Hub and final toast.
from 7.30pm Molino Hub – Heat Corner, live screen printing with Matteo Bonguerrieri.
from 9.30pm Molino Hub – VJ set Q2, Sacrobosco live set and VINX SCORZA live set
The Q2 Visual project (“those 2 vjs”: Alessio Mangiavacchi and Irene Biga) was born in 2008 from a passion for visual art and vjing. Q2’s live set is characterized by 2D animations, motion graphics, mapping, geometric games and continuous research and experimentation with new structures and materials, all managed through the use of software designed for video mixing and compositing.
Sacrobosco is an electronic music project created by Giacomo Giunchedi where analogue sounds, jazz sampling and drone-ambient atmospheres come together. From 2020 to today he has participated in various live sets and DJ sets between Bologna, Rome, Milan, Brussels, Paris and many other locations and will liven up the TRAME evening with his unmistakable and hypnotic style.
Vincenzo Scorza is a multifaceted experimental musician who focuses his career on the intersection between the world of sound and technology. In Grosseto he brings a live set that will be unique, created from scratch starting from the elements that make up his recent techno live set, for a listening experience that promises to be unrepeatable.
EXTRA PLOTS Sunday 9 June
from 7pm Inauguration of the “Sottosopra” project at Poggio di Roselle curated by Kansassìti, presentation of the works on shutters by the Scampia muralist Gianluca Raro and, following, concert by Dario Canal, singer and musician from Massa Marittima.
All scheduled events are free.
TRAME Festival 24 is a project curated by CLAN APS, created with the contribution of the CR Firenze Foundation and with the patronage of the Municipality of Grosseto. The event sees the collaboration of numerous local and national entities including Kansassìti APS, Molino HUB, Street Levels Gallery, Associazione Mixed Media, HEAT Streetwear, Le vie dell’Orto, Festambiente, Legambiente, Culture Attive and Associazione Le Mura.
