Una Boccata d’Arte

Renata Fabbri is pleased to announce Lulu Nuti’s participation in the fifth edition of Una Boccata d’Arte with the project È tutto vero at Motta Filocastro, Calabria.

Una Boccata d’Arte is back from June 22nd to September 29th, 2024. This contemporary ar project promoted by Fondazione Elpis has reached its fifth edition, with 100 villages and 100 artists involved since 2020. Every year, 20 villages all over Italy, one for each region, host 20 projects by 20 Italian and international artists, created during a period of residence in contact with the territory and the local communities.

For further information: unaboccatadarte.it

Lulù Nuti
È tutto vero
Curated by ALTROVE – Ehab Halabi Abo Kher
Motta Filocastro – fraz. Limbadi (VV), Calabria

There is a specific location where, as you approach Motta Filocastro, the asphalt turns into stone. This is the threshold where a visitor from elsewhere becomes a guest. The project by Lulù Nuti specifically addresses these liminal points, with a series of bronze works deriving from casts of several doormats given to the artist by the people living in the village. Installed both at the entrance and at the end of blind alleys facing the sea, the works create a dual sensation: on one hand, arriving from the asphalt road, there is the sense of crossing a threshold leading to the heart of the village; on the other hand, when looking out from the internal streets of the village, there is a sense of being both protected and isolated. Seen from above, È tutto vero (It’s all true) appears as a luminous ring of protection, evoking the towers that once defended the village. The ancient fortress, now reduced to a single stone, seems to become a new type of “watchtower”, a suspended space where a foreigner is assessed to determine whether he or she represents a source of danger or of new horizons. The artist reflects on public space and how it represents an intimate, diffuse dimension here. The transformation of a soft and familiar object like a doormat, into a bronze work, celebrates the ambiguity of the domestic environment, midway between a welcoming home and an impenetrable fortress. The use of bronze gives the original object a sacred dimension, and honors the art of hospitality, which is exemplified in Motta Filocastro. Seen through the artist’s eyes, the village is a magical place, where the boundaries between truth and legend become blurred, and historical documentation is blended with folk tales in a depiction that is based both on reality and imagination.

Artworks:

01. Lulù Nuti, È tutto vero, 2024. Bronze, 120 x 40 x 1 cm.
Corso Pietro Lazzaro 42, Motta Filocastro

02. Lulù Nuti, È tutto vero, 2024. Bronze, 60 x 39 x 1 cm.
Via XXIV Maggio 6, Motta Filocastro

03. Lulù Nuti, È tutto vero, 2024. Bronze, 78 x 45 x 1 cm.
Via XXIV Maggio 14, Motta Filocastro

04. Lulù Nuti, È tutto vero, 2024. Bronze, 67 x 37 x 1 cm.
Via XXIV Maggio 21, Motta Filocastro

05. Lulù Nuti, È tutto vero, 2024. Bronze, 45 x 75 x 1 cm.
Via Montenegro 30, Motta Filocastro