| Metal plates, cube-shaped, usually seen in yards, on | | | | lab, aimed at presenting the new way art approaches |
| ships or “left alone” in a corner of a firm: | | | | to metropolitan areas and landscapes. |
| that’s the way we’re accustomed to seeing | | | | Recently, Genoa hosted the “ContainerArt”, |
| containers, cold and inanimate, only used for industrial | | | | the first itinerant exhibition of contemporary art |
| purposes. | | | | gathering paintings, videos, sculptures by innovative |
| Who would have ever thought that a light | | | | artists, and all this was contained in tens of |
| ‘make-up’ would have transformed them | | | | containers laid in squares, streets and parks of the |
| into real objects of art and/or containers for art? | | | | city. |
| This has just happened in Genoa, Bologna and | | | | The so-called “container art” is a form of art |
| Bergamo. | | | | that is gaining momentum in Italy, thanks to different |
| The latest news refers to Bergamo, where a | | | | factors that mark its features. |
| container used for naval purposes and abandoned | | | | It is a kind of art that can quickly reach out to |
| some five years ago has been done up and | | | | everyone exactly because of the mobility of its |
| transformed into a lounge area dedicated to relaxing. | | | | “museum”, i.e. the container. Furthermore, |
| But above all, containers have become objects of art. | | | | even though containers were created to contain |
| It is exactly because they’re easy to transport | | | | things, at the same time and thanks to their external |
| that containers are becoming more and more a mean | | | | faces they can become objects of art themselves. |
| to communicate with people living in small and big | | | | We might as well define them as enormous |
| towns, counties and villages around big cities. | | | | three-dimensional paintings, containing more art! |
| In Bologna, the Container has become a real mobile | | | | |