Retro Consulting Group s.r.l. this year continues to focus on the art world by sponsoring an innovative event with significant social impact. On June 1, 2024, as part of Flashback Habitat – cso Giovanni Lanza, 75, from 5:30 PM to 12:30 AM, we will present a new face of contemporary art through the collaboration of doctors, artists, and curators.
MICAA – Mediterranean Institute for Contemporary Artistic Activism presents itself as a young and ambitious project aimed at giving voice to the issues of our time through the language of contemporary art. It was born from the successful and unconventional collaboration of various professional figures: among the founders, the president, a young cardiac surgeon and artist from Turin (as well as a partner of Retro Consulting Group), and several experts from the art world, including gallery owners, artists, and curators active both nationally and internationally.
The Institute, the first of its kind, will focus on new currents of artistic activism and support the international scene of emerging artists, allowing them to act beyond the realm of critique and transform their work into responsibility and action.
MICAA also aims to create a stable and concrete connection between the world of contemporary art and the humanitarian activities of international non-governmental organizations (NGOs), using the language of art to discuss social and environmental issues that have now become victims of stereotypical narratives.
On the occasion of the inauguration, on Saturday, June 1, 2024, MICAA will collaborate with SOS MEDITERRANEE to organize an event during which art, in the form of photography, video, dialogue, and music, will become a medium to collectively discuss a critical issue, such as migration. Starting at 5:30 PM, PHOS – Centro Fotografia Torino will host the exhibition Natale in Crociera by Vittorio Sancipriano, curated by Federica Barletta: a photographic project developed during the period spent in the Mediterranean Sea, in the SAR (Search and Rescue) zone between Libya, Lampedusa, and Sicily, including his role as Medical Coordinator. At 7:30 PM, the new documentary REAL PEOPLE by Olmo Parenti, created with Will Ita and Athingby, will be screened at Il Circolino di Flashback. The documentary tells the story of the rescue of 114 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea and the following 10 days spent aboard the Ocean Viking ship, waiting to disembark in Europe.
Through their private conversations (filmed in the original language and then translated into Italian), the film immerses us in the lives of these individuals during their most uncertain moment, becoming a sort of reality show in the middle of the sea. The conversation will continue with the talk “Migration and Other Remedies” featuring the protagonists and the leaders of SOS MEDITERRANEE.
To conclude the event, starting at 9:30 PM, Flashback will host a custom DJ Set by Xanax Party.
For more information and the full event schedule, visit www.micaa.art.
