Ulìa Art Projet 2024

After last year's edition, the Ulìa Art Project is renewed, with a rich calendar of events that crosses the countryside between Ostuni and Fasano for a weekend dedicated to contemporary art.
From 19 to 21 July, the series of interventions involving Italian and international artists called to work within traditional Apulian architectures will be inaugurated: a masseria, a farmhouse, a house/trullo, a contrada church and a palace in the historic centre are the places that will frame the interventions of the selected artists.

The opening weekend will start on 19 July at 6 pm with the opening of the exhibition Rehab, a solo show by Davide Sgambaro, realised following a residency in the Valle d'Itria during the winter months. The artist has stayed several times in the building that will host his interventions, some site-specific works and an impromptu work that will come to life on the day of the opening of Trullo Ulìa, a symbolic place from which everything started and to which everything returns.At 7.30 p.m., a few minutes' drive away, Marco Andrea Magni's Family Slang will be inaugurated in the spaces of Casale Madre, an installation that scatters the rooms with subtle details, small architectural grafts of the different environments, counterpoints of an intimate discourse that takes place between those walls. 
The following day, in the immediate vicinity of Trullo Ulìa in contrada Piatone, the ancient farmhouse that will soon host the renovated Masseria Mastro Antonio, will host the exhibition La Terra Muta (The Mute Land) on Saturday 20 July at 6.30 p.m., a group show combining works by different artists, Bora Baboci, Francesco Carone, Enej Gala, Joao Freitas, Albano Hernandez, Mehdi Georges Lahlou, Mirthe Klück Leonardo Meoni, Giovanni Oberti, Oscar Abrahm Pabòn, Eugenia Vanni, Ambra Viviani, Xiao Zhiyu and will be articulated in the functional vocation of the building, a centre for the collection and distribution of the resources produced, the expression of a territory and a human adaptation to it. Adjacent to this complex, the contrada's small church will be the theatre for Giovanni Oberti Extra|Intra's intervention, which will restore a celestial vault to the very human votive architecture. The weekend will then end on Sunday 21 July, at 10 a.m. for breakfast in Largo Seggio in Fasano, where Remo Salvadori's work Nel Momento will be installed on the main façade of Palazzo Ruggeri d'Urso overlooking the town's intimate little square; a sublime synthesis of the energy of the material, the form of thought and the substance understood as the present dimension, Nel Momento.

After this weekend, the interventions will be visible by appointment until 7 September.

The project, conceived by Trullo Ulia, Galleria FuoriCampo and The Art Syn and supported in part by the Municipality of Ostuni and the Municipality of Fasano, was born with the idea of promoting the values and identity of this land by using the eyes of the artists who collaborated with local artisans and craftsmen to create the works and set up the exhibition, in order to build a more authentic bond with the territory by feeding a virtuous circle that creates beauty and value.

19 July

5.30 - 9 pm
REHAB Davide Sgambaro 
@Trullo Ulìa, Contrada Piatone, Ostuni (BR)

EXTRA INTRA Giovanni Oberti 
@Chiesa, Contrada Piatone, Ostuni (BR)

7 - 01 am
FAMILY SLANG Marco Andrea Magni
@Casale Madre, Contrada Guappi Falghero, Ostuni (BR)

20 July

6.30 - 9 pm
LA TERRA MUTA
Bora Baboci, Francesco Carone, Enej Gala, Joao Freitas, Albano Hernandez,
Mehdi-Georges Lahlou, Mirthe Klück, Leonardo Meoni, Giovanni Oberti,
Oscar Abrahm Pabòn, Eugenia Vanni, Ambra Viviani, Xiao Zhiyu 
@Masseria Mastro Antonio, Contrada Piatone, Ostuni (BR)

21 July

10.00 - 12 am
NEL MOMENTO Remo Salvadori 
Palazzo Ruggeri d’Urso, Largo Seggio, Fasano (BR)
breakfast @Palazzo Ruggeri d’Urso