Cracking Art Group: blue and fuchsia snails storming cities

    Huge blue snails, 3,20 meters long, have recently invaded Treviso. These are the colored plastic sculptures of the Cracking Art Group, also exhibited in Milan in fuchsia color. A peaceful conquest this umpteenth open-air art installation by the six international artists who, since 1993, have been playing with the most evocative corners of cities and capitals and breaking the urban obviousness with works with a strong emotional impact.



    He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him

    Huge ones blue snails, 3,20 meters long, have recently invaded Treviso. They are the colored plastic sculptures of Cracking Art Group, also exhibited in Milan in fuchsia color. A peaceful conquest this umpteenth art installation open sky of the six international artists who, since 1993, have been playing with the most evocative corners of cities and capitals and breaking the urban obviousness with works with a strong emotional impact.



    And, this time, with one more value, actually two. With the project RE-generation, the snails are entirely made of recyclable plastic material, to underline the need for an ethically responsible approach towards the environment. Furthermore, the Treviso installation has the purpose of raise fundsFor My Son“, A non-profit organization that deals with humanizing care and improving the quality of life of hospitalized children and their parents. to finance the projects of the Consortium "

    Cracking Art are composed by Renzo Nucara, Carlo Rizzetti, Marco Veronese, Alex Angi, Kicco and William Sweetlowe. The group's intention is to change the history of art through a strong social and environmental commitment. The revolutionary and innovative use of the plastic, which they use in their "attacks", evokes the ever closer relationship between natural life and artificial reality. Recycling plastic means save it from the toxic and devastating destruction for the environment, turning them into works of art means communicating through an innovative aesthetic language and expressing a particular sensitivity towards nature.

    Each animal has a meaning and the snail is the symbol and the invitation to regain possession of the quality of life, in contrast to the frenetic and characteristic rhythm of our cities. LCracking Art Group: blue and fuchsia snails storming citiesFurthermore, a snail represents three metaphors: it means listening, with the shape similar to an ear; living because he always carries the house with him and the technology, because the shell resembles the @ of communication on the web.

    The animals created by Cracking Art for the different installations are many: from turtles blue for the G8 in Syracuse ai Dolphins gold already appeared in Piazza del Duomo in Milan, come on rabbits red wines of Paris at the "zoo” in Tel Aviv, dai poodles reds of Seoul ai Penguins illuminated Prague. And then birds, bears, beavers, sheep, crocodiles, all colorful and decidedly out of scale, animals that have invaded the most varied places on the planet, from those dedicated to art to those of more everyday life, from supermarkets to highways. The peaceful "assault" of snails, in groups of different colors, intends to touch the largest number of world capitals and the symbolic places of the planet, and then return to Milan in 2015 on the occasion of the International Expo, gathered in a large multicolored family.



    Valeria Zavanone

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