HORIZON: Projections from the heart of the island of Grado
From 8 to 11 August 2024, Grado will once again host an event that combines art and technology, the static nature of architecture and the dynamic nature of light: the architectural videomapping by Sara Caliumi, an artist specialised in multimedia events of national and international relevance, who has worked in the arts, in various festivals of light, in Olympic ceremonies, etc.
The Bolognese artist's art work, which will be repeated on a loop every 30 minutes from 21.00 to 24.00, will have as its setting the evocative Basilica di Sant'Eufemia and as its theme the magic of the horizon, hence the title ‘Horizon’. This project is the result of multiple points of view, gathered by observing this beautiful island thanks to the collaboration of local people and expert guides, who are attentive to the most intimate and characteristic details of the place, as well as to the lesser-known and revealing aspects of the magic of this millenary village. This spectacle is an invitation to look beyond the horizon of the everyday, to immerse oneself in the hues of new dawns and fabulous sunsets, to savour moments savouring fragrances and travelling through symbols of the past to flow into the future, connoting the moment, moment by moment.
In this mystical atmosphere, animated paintings will follow one another representing the magic of change and the cycles of nature, connecting past, present and future to create moving images on the marvellous early Christian Basilica. The whirlwinds of the wind, the vibrations of the sand particles and the rhythm of change will give life to shapes inspired by the territory, ‘fields’, borderline places between cultures, fulcrum of connection of peoples.
‘Horizon’ represents a circular horizon where the finite and the infinite flow together; Grado, an island where one can contemplate the moment in motion: waterways, seaport, fishing village, commercial port, Aquileia the Roman emporium, the Castrum, amber routes, Byzantine influences, mosaics, amphorae, sails and ships, Viennese art, the Belle Époque, the beach and well-being, the faces of fishermen and the poetry of Biagio Marin, the lagoon...
Videomapping is a new frontier of public art en plein air and consists of creating three-dimensional spatialities that redesign architecture with new perspectives, resulting in spectacular visual pictures in motion. Thanks to the Consorzio Grado Turismo and the Municipality of Grado, Sara Caliumi's work returns to Grado after two years, to enhance the art of the area, like a ‘painting in the square’, exhibited once again to be contemplated.
On Friday 9 August at 8.30 p.m. the artist will offer a live reading of the work, in Campo Patriarca Elia.
