COLORI AD ARTE: international tender for young artists (under 35)

In the framework of its missions and initiatives on urban recovery, Contrada Torino ONLUS Foundation has integrated a multi-year project aimed at realizing Public Arts works in the Turin area aimed at fostering the interaction between arts, architecture and environment. The Colori ad Arte project proposes to experiment new procedures involving Arts and image of the city. On one hand, the Foundation works with and for the artists by identifying the most appropriate topics and places for their intervention. On the other hand the artists and the whole community work for the city by analyzing all the possible forms of integration between artistic expression, conditions and meanings of the context. To this end, Contrada Torino ONLUS, in the year of “Torino European Youth Capital”, under the auspices of GAI (Association for the Circuit of Young Italian Artists), BJCEM (Biennal Exhibition of Young European and Mediterranean Artists) and the contribution of the City of Turin (Structural Funds and Economic Development Division and Youth Policies Division) has published the first international tender for young (under 35) artists for the recovery of three blind walls with different environmental features in the city of Turin. Such blind (and silent) walls have a remarkable dimensional impact and are now available thanks to Private owners and to a work of censing and coordination carried out by the Foundation in order to encourage the realization of project aimed at giving such spots back their dignity, enhancing life quality and reinvent a new identity, in harmony with their embedded values. The tender is part of the Urban Art Festival program, organized by the City of Torino – Youth policies Division in collaboration with and backed by the Youth Department. On the occasion of “Torino 2010 European Capital of Youth”, the event promote Mural Arts with interventions on big surfaces.