The Cultural Town
Councillorship of the Municipality of Quiliano, has been
promoting, since 2005, a cultural project, called SACS
(SPACE OF
CONTEMPORARY-EXPERIMENTAL ART) therefore creating the basis
for the most innovative research on visual arts by
organizing exhibitions, conferences and events connected to
this project. All this, is meant to offer to people the
chance of getting close (or closer) to Contemporary Art by
inviting them to conferences and debates with Artists,
Critics, Historians and experts. Some of the events involve
the Schools of the area, both primary and secondary
institutes. Furthermore, SACS collaborate and takes part to
events beyond the local dimension.
Particular care is paid to Mail-Art, which lets every
single Artist to feel free and take part to a worldwide net
of contacts. The mail delivery system is the means through
which the Artists swap their forms of art: images, little
objects, ideas, emotions…with no boundaries limits and very
few costs.
In a World where everything is under discussion and in
which the real way to globalization goes through contacts
rather than collisions among different cultures, the
phenomenon of Mail-Art, so non-selective and so far from
the rules of the market, is an extraordinary means to
spread the Artists’ creativity from all over the World.
This peculiar way of producing art is meant to recover and
promote the intellectual local resources by avoiding the
disintegration and the flattening of the different
cultures. The exchange of correspondence among the Artists
of different Countries lets different people belonging to
different cultures get in touch with one another and lets
them to collaborate and organize important Exhibitions
dedicated to specific themes, always related to nowadays
life and social problems.
SACS does support these aims and wishes to carry on the initiatives fulfilled so far that anticipated the realization of this website and that made Quiliano be the regional point of reference of this very peculiar expressive form. The Mail, in fact, makes the organization of great Exhibitions easy and allows a lot of Artists from all over the World be involved in them. Therefore, the Cultural Town Councillorship of the Municipality of Quiliano really wants to enlarge the national as well as the international contacts by setting recurrent initiatives and events. This project, finally, aims to turn to account all the Mai-Art material collected through the years by creating, in the future, a proper archive for collecting and studying all the documents regarding Mail-Art, the Artists and the initiatives that have taken place, so far.