Baroque & Neo-Baroque It is a design festival that reflects on the contemporary expressions and interpretations of the baroque aesthetic that characterizes the Iblean territory, describing them within a rich program of meetings with designers, artists, companies and staging them through installations. site-specific.
The festival, conceived and directed by Roberto Semprini and now in its second edition, this year hosts the Posters created by students of the 2021-22 Graphic Design course with Mauro Bubbico and Simona Riccobene.
Why do we still talk about Baroque today?
This is the question our students tried to answer, reflecting on the relationship between the Baroque present in our cities and the socio-cultural fabric with which it dialogues.
Each graphic project takes inspiration from the Baroque architectural elements present in the Ragusa area – masks, frames, facades – which are reinterpreted in a personal way, acquire new meanings and become the pretext for to tell the rich, wonderful and mythical Sicilian visual imagery and the stratification of the island's history and culture, between myths and legends.
«The posters proposed by the students are to be understood as a urban review of visual stimuli and cultural solicitations who look at the poetics of things and from the poetics
they start again to lay the foundations for a new dialogue, open and inclusive, for the planning of the
Tomorrow."
Mauro Bubbico
Throughout the month of September, 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 posted on the streets of Ragusa.
Baroque & Neo-Baroque It is organized under the patronage of ADI – Association for Industrial Design, the Brera Academy, the Academy of Florence, and the Order of Architects. Visits to the installations are free.