Our Great Sea / international project in Split – CROATIAN ASSOCIATION OF FINE ARTISTS

Our Great Sea

We're all on the same body of water

The international project Our Great Sea by renowned Italian artist Gea Casolaro (curated by Leonardo Regano) is a project supported by the Italian Council (8th Edition, 2020) program to promote Italian contemporary art in the world by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism. The main holder of the project is the Italian [ARTIST NAME/INSTITUTION NAME], and in cooperation with the Croatian Association of Fine Artists in Split (HULU Split), the project will be presented to the Split audience this Thursday.

Our Great Sea is a participatory art project that, thanks to the cooperation of various institutions, associations, and the public, is being developed in several Mediterranean countries. It will be presented exclusively to the Croatian public in the gallery of the Southeast Tower of Diocletian’s Palace, and after visiting several other Mediterranean countries, it will become part of the permanent collection of the National Museum of Ravenna.

It's a large art installation depicting the Mediterranean Sea, which the artist continuously reflects on and reinterprets through photographs of people invited to participate in the project. She actively seeks viewers' cooperation to create a photographic archive of the Mediterranean woven from images of everyday human rituals, holidays, landscapes, etc.

An art installation set up in the gallery space of the Southeast Tower offers visitors a vivid experience where the audience has a 360-degree view of the Mediterranean Sea from its center. During the exhibition, visitors are invited to add and/or replace existing images with new photographs from the archive by placing them on the corresponding part of the coast.

Gea Casolaro invites the people of Split to send photos of everyday life from the Mediterranean coast to the project’s website – photos showing at least a small piece of the sea – taken in any country, place, time, and season. All collected photos will become an integral part of the project, and the website that will follow it and grow over time will become a platform rich in photos and different views of the Mediterranean Sea. Day by day, it will develop a rhizomatic cartography composed of stories intertwined on this sea, which has always been a source of exchange of civilizations – a true common pool that we share and that unites us – with the aim of abolishing the thought, “we on this coast and those on the other side.” It is not a border between people, but a universe that includes us.

The exhibition will be open from November 12th to November 26th, 2020, and admission is free.

Information

Gea Casolaro

Our Great Sea

Project supported by

Italian Council (8th Edition, 2020) program to promote Italian contemporary art in the world by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism

Curated by

Leonardo Regano

Promoted by

Regional Directorate of Museums of Emilia-Romagna

Croatian Partners

Hulu – Split
Museum of the City of Split

Academy of Fine Arts in Split

Photo Club Split

Cultural partner

Quart Contemporary Art Platform

For further information about the project and the call to action:

info@maremagnumnostrum.art