With BLU&Erica il Cane and OS GEMEOS we remember two important Festivals - NUART10 and FAME FESTIVAL.
Nuart is an annual international contemporary art festival established in 2001. The Festival is based in Stavanger on the West Coast of Norway.
Since Sept 2005 Nuart's focus has been on the emerging Street Art and Post Graffiti scenes. From the first week of September an invited international team of street artists start to leave their mark on the city's walls, creating one of Europe's most dynamic and constantly evolving outdoor public art events.
The name of the event, FAME, refers to the ironic difference of meaning of the word itself between Italian and English. If in Italian FAME means hunger, in English is FAME, understood as honour and success status, things that Italy can only have exactly a great hunger.
The idea is to host the artists for variable length of time (from 1 to 4 weeks) and to offer them the cooperation of the local artisans for the production of pottery works and limited edition prints.
Furthermore the artists will have at their disposal several walls to paint around the city, in order to upgrade a few areas which are aesthetically depressed.
At the end of their stay, everything created, including new original artworks, screenprints and ceramic pieces made with the collaboration of local artisians will be showcased in a final group show.
it will take place in one of the most ancient ceramics workshop of the area, the opening is set to be on the 25th of september.
More importantly, it has to be said, the festival is entirely financed and curated by Studiocromie, wich is a one-man (+ his parents) screenprinting studio, without any kind of sponsorship from external sources.