Baroque & Neobaroque it is a design festival that reflects on contemporary expressions and interpretations of the Baroque aesthetic that characterises the Iblean region, exploring them through a rich programme of talks with designers, artists and companies, and showcasing them via installations site-specific.
The festival, conceived and directed by Roberto Semprini and now in its second edition, this year hosts the posters created by the male and female students of the Graphic Design course 2021-22 with Mauro Bubbico and Simona Riccobene.
Why talk about the Baroque even today?
This is the question our students tried to answer, reflecting on the relationship between the Baroque found in our cities and the socio-cultural fabric with which it engages.
Every graphic design project draws inspiration from Baroque architectural elements present in the Ragusa area – mascarons, frames, facades – which are reinterpreted in a personal way, acquire new meanings and become the pretext for tell of the rich, wonderful and mythical Sicilian visual imagery and the layering of the island's history and culture, amidst myths and legends.
«The posters proposed by the students are to be understood as a urban exhibition of visual stimuli and cultural prompts that look to the poetics of things and from poetics
they are setting off again to lay the foundations for a new, open and inclusive dialogue for the design of
tomorrow.»
Mauro Bubbico
For the whole of September, the projects by Serena Ardito, Gaia Ferrara, Luigi Di Silvestre, Enrico Garro, Enrico Girlando, Marika Guglielmino, Cristian Laganà, Lorenzo Lastrino, Mariachiara Lentini, Rosario Licata, Daniele Lombardo, Serena Martines, Francesco Andrea Scavo, Giusy Seminara, Maria Grazia Spataro, Clara Spinello, Catarina Reis, Karla Rivero Gonzalez, Carlo Tomarchio and Miriam Zaccone will be put up on the streets of Ragusa.
Baroque & Neobaroque it is produced under the patronage of ADI – Association for Industrial Design, the Brera Academy, the Florence Academy and the Order of Architects. Visits to the installations are free of charge.