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500×100 Talkcity with Hoperaperta, Genoa“Culture - in all its shapes - influences people’s behaviors. It is necessary to integrate art into the urban context to bring together people and the places they live, work, and spend their time in. In this way, art becomes an essential element for the city’s development.”
These were the words of Marco Bucci, mayor of Genoa, who participated in yesterday’s debate on “Art and City” which took place at Via Garibaldi 12 Lifestyle Store. This event was organized by 500x100 - a platform ideated by Alfonso Femia, Giorgio Tartaro, and Marco Predari - along with Hoperaperta, a cultural project shared by architects, designers, artists, and curators, and founded by Patrizia Catalano and Maurizio Barberis.
The debate counted many participants: Lorenzo Bagnara (art historian who welcomed the event in his Via Garibaldi 12 Lifestyle Store), Patrizia Catalano (journalist), Francesco Berti Riboli (doctor and owner of Villa Montallegro in Genoa), Massimo Negri (professor of museology in Padua), Danilo Trogu (artist), Riccardo Sirotti (architect), Luca Violo (media and communication for Wannenes Genoa), Simonetta Cenci (Genoa city planning councilor), Riccardo Miselli (president of the OAPPC of Genoa). The talks were coordinated by Alfonso Femia and Giorgio Tartaro.
During the debate, all possible connections between art and city were explored: private collections, museums, urban space as a potential open-air museum, installations, art as an attraction for tourism, art as a connective element in urban regeneration projects. Genoa’s experience - as a city that is living a particularly fruitful moment between newly launched projects, those in progress and the ones completed - has offered concrete examples of how art can contribute to urban revitalization.