The SyArt Sorrento Festival, dedicated to contemporary art and now in its fourth edition, presents from July 11th to September 6th forty artists from fourteen countries. The suggestive Sorrento location of Villa Fiorentino welcomes the artists, selected by Dr. Rossella Savarese, curator and gallery owner SyArt, becoming a unique container in which more than a hundred contemporary works of art tell of contamination and exchange between multi-ethnic languages and multiple artistic declinations. Photography, painting, sculpture, installation are contaminated by continuing a metaphysical dialogue inaugurated in the previous edition. The exhibition closes with a Solo Room dedicated to Video Art with a suggestive work by the creative Simone Riccardi. In addition to Italy well represented, the kermesse hosts countries such as Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Russia, Slovenia, Egypt, Turkey, England, Brazil, Peru, Serbia, South Korea and Poland. Interesting is the cultural exchange in the room dedicated to Photography where two Neapolitan artists Nico Vigenti and Federica La Magra meet their Brazilian, Uruguayan and Turkish colleagues. From a ground floor focused on a purely figurative discourse we move along the three exhibition floors and in the eight large rooms where the informal gives way to photography, illustration, body art, rather than sculpture and video art. Important the presence of women also in this edition, most of the works were made specifically for the Festival during the quarantine time and for the first time are presented to the public. Among the themes covered are gender violence, environmental pollution and forced isolation to which we have recently been subjected. As per tradition, during the opening evening, the Arbiter Fata Verde Award is presented, a wooden trophy created by the Sorrento artist Toni Wolfe. The winner has the privilege of creating one of the artistic covers of the well-known Arbiter magazine, which since the very beginning has been accompanying the Festival. It is renewed the realization of side events with well-known car manufacturers, this year BMW and M. Car decide to support the idea SyArt through the exhibition of a car model reinvented by one of the participating artists. Rosaria and Leone Cappiello, creators of the event, were pleased with the renewed possibility of allocating the proceeds collected during the opening night for a charitable purpose. And again a multi-handed and all-female live painting. The curator declares: "Emotionally I give you a structured exhibition path during a period of uncertainties with the awareness that art does not stop continuing its endless dialogue". Among the concomitant events we also remember the donation to the City of Sorrento of the work "Mikado" by Vincenzo Mascia, installed a few steps from the entrance of Villa Fiorentino in Corso Italia and which is part of the Outdoor Museum project realized by the SyArt Gallery of Sorrento and that with each edition expands and structures the dislocation in Sorrento of artistic works.

INFO SyArt Sorrento Festival 11 July - 6 September Villa Fiorentino, Sorrento Foundation

Vernissage 11 July at 7 p.m.

Hours Every day 10 a.m.- 1 p.m. / 5 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Museum Entrance Corso Italia, 53 Sorrento (Na)

Useful numbers Sorrento Foundation +39 0818782284 SyArt Gallery +39 3332882217

Free entrance to the exhibition On-site catalog at a cost of € 15,00