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"Futura traditio" by Vera Bugatti and Fabio Maria Fedele, 2021, via Lino Angelo Pisa
"Futura Traditio" represents the fusion of the author's artistic imagery and the articulated narratives provided by artisans, exploring the complex relationship between tradition and innovation. The work, a huge anamorphosis by Bresciadue (320 sqm), is the result of a collaboration with Fabio Fedele for the Artisans Association, symbolically donated to the city.
The painting projects two imposing figures within an architectural frame, suggesting that they emerge from a virtual room. The anamorphic perspective requires photographing the work from a side point indicated on the ground and walking along the street to fully appreciate the deformation of the design over a length of 30 meters.
The title, "Futura Traditio," plays on the oxymoron between handed-down tradition and the future, representing tradition as a dynamic philosophical concept active across generations. Two characters, an elderly craftsman and a young woman with "4.0" tools, symbolize tradition and innovation, with looks that draw the observer from the street.
The transmission of knowledge is represented by the passing of a box between the two characters, symbolizing continuity and mutual assistance. In the background, black silhouettes represent the artisans of the future, while white figures above the window symbolize the workers of the past.
The work, originally scheduled for spring 2020, was delayed due to the pandemic. Bugatti also carefully incorporated the Covid-19 theme, symbolically emerging from a toolbox, with a mask and creased gloves. These elements, hanging from a hammer, represent solidarity and the experience of the pandemic, while their presence grows in significance toward the right side of the painting, suggesting hope but also a warning for caution.
"The Dream of Water" by Vera Bugatti, 2024, Parco dell’Acqua, Largo Torrelunga, 7
"The Dream of Water" by Vera Bugatti is a mural of more than 100 square meters that adorns two exterior walls of a white building in the southern area of the park. The work, created by the Brescian artist, depicts a dreamlike aquatic environment, paying tribute to those dedicated to environmental protection and promoting sustainability.
The mural depicts a suspended environment inhabited by human and animal figures, including an old man and a little girl, a seahorse, a perch, a jellyfish, and a turtle. These characters are metaphors: the old man represents a tried and worried Poseidon, while the little girl symbolizes attention and curiosity about light.
Made in anamorphosis, the mural requires to be observed from a specific point to properly appreciate its composition. Initially, the characters present strange deformations, but upon reaching the indicated vantage point, they reveal themselves in the proper perspective, offering viewers a unique and engaging experience.
"Global angel wings project" by Colette Miller, 2019, inner courtyard of Area Docks, via Sangervasio.
From Los Angeles, the City of Angels, to Brescia bringing the wings that have made her world famous, Colette Miller, an American artist, arrived in Italy where she brought her project born in 2012 through the streets of the California city. The artist, who has painted her wings on walls and skyscrapers all over the world ‒ in Kenya, Australia, Europe, England, Dubai, the World Trade Centre, Japan, Cuba, Juarez in Mexico, China and many other places, including many in the United States ‒ in Italy has chosen Brescia for her project.
"The Global Angel Wings Project" has a special mission: to remind the world that we are all angels sent to earth. A message that is expressed by the artist through murals depicting colourful human-sized wings. Dimensions and locations are chosen by Colette so that each person can naturally interact with the work and become part of it. People's self-shots, taken all over the world, made this project international: by photographing themselves with wings, women, men, children and famous people helped spread the artist's message globally.
The first pair of wings was conceived as a street art episode, but the response was natural, immediate, and spontaneous, from people of all types and backgrounds. Colette has painted her wings globally: although some are commissioned and others given away, the wings themselves are free for the world to see. They belong to no one, not even Colette, even though they are of her creation.
LINKurban art festival
LINK is the urban art festival that featured several internationally established artists working on different urban areas in the city of Brescia from 2016 to 2020. The initiative, conceived and organized by the True Quality Cultural Association, was the culmination of a project that involved a large number of entities in the area, with the goal of a cultural revitalization and renewal of peripheral areas of the city.
The first three editions of the festival were held near the city subway station in the suburban Sanpolino district. Twenty-seven artists were involved in the decoration of 26 structural pylons of the metropolitan viaduct; the outcome of this first macro-intervention is an open-air, fully usable art gallery almost a kilometre long, an excellence in the national contemporary art scene. The artists involved are: Hemo, Mr. Thoms, Czar, Ofelia, Giorgio Bartocci, Vesod, Macs, Geometric Bang, Yellow Fat Crew, Len, SeaCreative, G. Loois, LABA, Nootk, Camilla Falsini, Fezzi, Mr. Wany, Frederico Draw, Contra, La Fille Bertha, Hdemia SantaGiulia, Laura Micieli, Semino Bevilacqua, Etsom, Bone, Giovanni Gandolfi, Giovanni Dallospazio, Taleggio, Vera Bugatti, 108, Saddo.
For the 4th edition, the festival underwent a substantial advancement in terms of its impact on the city's territory: having exhausted the Sanpolino pylons of the urban area, it switched to large walls in three neighbourhoods, decorated by artists. LINK's focus has remained on the city's suburban areas, the affected neighbourhoods are San Bartolomeo, with artists Vera Bugatti, Luogo Comune, Luca Zamoc, Ne Spoon and Joys; Violino where Vesod, 108 and Camilla Falsini intervened; finally, Lamarmora with works by artists Saddo, Giovanni Dallospazio in collaboration with Taleggio.
MAUA IN BRESCIA
MAUA Brescia is a diffuse open-air museum to discover city itineraries outside the city centre and ordinary art circuits, with 28 street art works in augmented reality to explore in different parts of the city.
Once on site, the experience continues in digital form: framed with a smartphone, the work is transformed into a work of digital art, animated in augmented reality.
A participatory project, which has come to involve hundreds of people including neighbourhood residents, students, street artists and digital creatives in each city where it has been implemented.
