SPAZIO TAVERNA
GENIUS LOCI
The soul of a place can inspire extraordinary visions.
Genius Loci enhances historical spaces and territories through artistic interventions that reawaken their profound meaning. Each work is born from a dialogue between past and future, transforming environments by triggering new connections with the community and the landscape.
GENIUS LOCI produce format culturali replicabili:
GENIUS LOCI produces replicable cultural formats:
IMAGINA
A curatorial methodology that aims to bring back to the surface extraordinary historical figures of our history through the eyes of a great visionary of our times. Large site-specific projects by contemporary artists, directors, designers and creatives that explore the legacy of visionaries of the past in their places of origin, to create unexpected connections with the present.
IMAGINA
An annual event that aims to reactivate places by transforming them into meeting spaces between art, community and vision. Through site-specific installations, performances and interdisciplinary collaborations, each project reawakens the memory of these places, revealing new possibilities.
THE VISIONARIES
A project with the aim of giving new life to extraordinary figures of the past, reinterpreted by contemporary artists who explore their legacy through works capable of creating unexpected connections with the present.
IMAGINA
An annual event that aims to reactivate places by transforming them into meeting spaces between art, community and vision. Through site-specific installations, performances and interdisciplinary collaborations, each project reawakens the memory of these places, revealing new possibilities.
THE VISIONARIES
A project with the aim of giving new life to extraordinary figures of the past, reinterpreted by contemporary artists who explore their legacy through works capable of creating unexpected connections with the present.
A format designed to reactivate the traumas of a city through the involvement of 10 contemporary artists who are asked to symbolically mend the historical moments in which the city has betrayed itself. Each artist is entrusted with a wound of the city to bring out from the collective unconscious new meanings for shared stories.
FEATURED PROJECTS
IMAGINA
An annual traveling event to transform historic places in small Italian towns into spaces for innovation and research through the dissemination of contemporary art interventions in the area. Young artists under 30 in dialogue with local artisans, transform villages, castles and palaces, creating exhibitions that merge vision of the future and memory of the past.
Editions
IMAGINA
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1 degree of separation aims to build authentic and direct relationships between the territory, the artists, the inhabitants, the space and its energies. Through the visions and works of young artists, the project gives back to the city the third floor of the historic Castello Orsini, which until now has remained closed to the public.
2024 | 2025 | soriano NEL CIMINO, lazio
2023 | Gubbio, Umbria
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Exploring the connection between contemporary art, history and territory. With seven sections and the EXTRA Biennale path, artists interact with the community and local heritage, transforming the city through art.
With Invito a Palazzo. Mecenatismi we celebrate the reopening of Palazzo Orsini-Colonna in Tagliacozzo, reflecting on the relationship between art, patronage and conservation. The exhibition promotes a dialogue between past and present, generating new readings of art history.
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2022 | tagliacozzo, abruzzo
Rome
The Wounds of Rome is a project that investigates 10 historical traumas that the city has experienced, from Julius Caesar to the death of Aldo Moro, exploring events that mark the Roman collective unconscious. Daniel Libeskind states that trauma cannot be cured, but faced with awareness. Spazio Taverna has invited ten contemporary artists to interpret each trauma with a work on paper, each linked to a specific place and date. The works are a symbolic reflection on the healing power of art, which helps to mend the wounds of the past.
Camilla Alberti | Francesco Arena | Stefano Arienti | Ruth Beraha | Valentina Furian | Marcello Maloberti | Liliana Moro | Diego Perrone | Paola Pivi | Luca Vitone
Milan
Le Wounds of Milan investigates the city's hidden traumas, from historical episodes such as the execution of Amatore Sciesa to the Piazza Fontana and Linate massacres. These events, often removed but still pulsating in the collective unconscious, are reinterpreted by ten artists, each charged with symbolically reflecting on an event that marked Milan. The project transforms pain into awareness, without recalling suffering, but giving new form to these scars through art.
Elizabeth Benassi | Giulio Bensasson | Enzo Cucchi | Silvia Giambrone | Rä di Martino | Lulu Nuti | Luigi Ontani | Pietro Ruffo | Gabriele Silli | Marco Tirelli
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THE WOUNDS
Un artista contemporaneo interpreta e reimmagina la visione di un personaggio del passato.
Attraverso questa connessione, il progetto esplora il dialogo tra epoche diverse, mettendo in luce come le idee rivoluzionarie di grandi figure storiche possano ispirare nuove prospettive artistiche. I Visionari diventa così un ponte tra passato e presente, dove l’arte attiva una rilettura innovativa del pensiero visionario.
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VISIONARIES
IMAGINA