Open Call: I BLU International Contemporary Art Exhibition
BLU Spazio delle Arti, Rome, IT
Deadline: 08.09.2024
Barbara Pavan
BLU SPAZIO DELLE ARTI is the new space opened in Rome by RAABE APS in 2023. A cultural space where exhibitions, events, literary presentations and a busy program of lifelong learning take place. A hospitable, open-door place where all people can participate, exchange experiences and build dialogue, with a view to a contemporary vision of art and culture that is seamless with the real, daily lives of individuals and the communities in which they are grafted.
The common thread of BLU is upcycling, an ecological artistic (and other) practice of transforming salvaged materials and objects through the creative gesture into works, giving them back their voice but also new and other meanings. Reconfiguring a second life for an object without it undergoing further processing implies a high degree of creativity, a broad vision that goes beyond the functional figure and allows the acquisition of that added value of the work to which artistic practice contributes through the very process of transforming the original object or material.
Innovation, exploration and discovery arise from the essence of the ecological revolution that has been underway for several decades: the reuse of matter against the uncontrolled consumption of resources and against the (mostly planned) of products is now part of an ecological ethic that will increasingly have to permeate every segment of societies if humans are to secure a future on this planet.
BLU SPAZIO DELLE ARTI is promoting an exhibition dedicated to the color that inspired its name. BLUE is the color that identifies our planet. It is conventionally the color of the seas and oceans, the waters and the sky. But BLUE is also a color dense with meanings differently declined according to different cultures throughout history.
Candidate works or art projects should decline or be inspired by BLUE - explored and interpreted as a color or metaphor or symbol or in one of its multiple meanings. Consistent with BLU's vision and mission, the candidate works or projects should be environmentally sustainable and/or eco-friendly, made from waste, salvaged, object trouvé or natural materials (fibers, clay, etc.), upcycling and through non-polluting techniques and processes.
BLU SPAZIO DELLE ARTI will select the works and/or projects through the CALL OF PARTICIPATION open to artists over 18 years of age residing or active in the countries of the European Union that will be set up at the exhibition venue in Rome, Via di Torpignattara 142, between October and November 2024.
More information: www.lalberodellefarfalle2020.art