Amatrice Earthquake Recovery: Two Days of Contemporary Art Events

On June 10-11, 2017, the town of Amatrice, devastated by a 2016 earthquake, hosts a two-day contemporary art event called Cum Grano Salis, organized by Associazione Arte Contemporanea Picena. The program includes performances, workshops, children's activities, exhibitions, and meetings with critics and gallerists, held in a 700 sqm tent in a private park. Participants include critics Achille Bonito Oliva and Christian Caliandro, photographers Antonio Ottomanelli and Pier Luigi Giorgi, curator Andrea Bruciati, representatives from galleries Monitor (Rome), Umberto di Marino (Naples), and Giovanni Bonelli (Milan), and actress Cinzia Leone. Artribune distributes free copies. Separately, in L'Aquila, a requalification project transforms a green space near the Accademia di Belle Arti dell'Aquila into a park featuring student artworks selected via open call. Previous initiatives include Re_Place by Germana Galli, with site-specific light installations by artists like Michelangelo Pistoletto, Mario Airò, and Giovanni Albanese, and Off Site Art from New York, curated by Veronica Santi, which covered damaged building facades with PVC banners designed by artists.