https://vimeo.com/113157835
MACAM is a public art project rooted in a rural
context, started by Maurizio Corgnati and Letizia Di Maio in 1985 in
the small village of Maglione. There are a lot of failures and
insignificant art works, but I consider it as an intergrade project
aiming to create a public dwelling for the human beings of the village.
If art could be considered as the effort to construct a physical and
mental dwell, I find here a step of this process.
Maurizio Corgnati admired and probably at the same time suffered for
the indifference of the people. He made the best out of a bad situation,
accepting that their indifference is the result of a lifestyle,
constantly taken up by natural events and by life in its most cruel
aspect. In the recluse context of this town Corgnati and Di Maio started
inviting artists every year, in order to create art works which could
affect the local community. Since then Macam has produced 170 pubic
artworks, among them a lot are paintings or sculptures. The first ones
were especially simple, but they were still provocative at that time and
place.We could somehow reproach to this project too much carelessness, because it hasn't generated yet any critical growth. However Macam project's guideline is the playful sense of life, without the aim of constructing imposing monuments but on the contrary living and changeable things.
2014
1920x1080 hd
6 min 15 sec
colours, sound
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