Europe | Florence | Burgas | Barcelon | Limoges

From 2008 december to 2010 may

Three artists and three craftsmen for each country

Reducing the distance among the languages of art, design, handicraft/Creating the conditions to give to the Handicraft an added value in terms of Innovation and Research/Stimulating the present and future economic and cultural growth of handicraft.

WhatTo analyse the historic relationship between Craftsman and Artist, and to investigate the reasons of their current separation. To rebuild the basis of a dialogue between artists and craftsmen. Historical seminars, workshops, meetings, brainstorm laboratories to focus on the current and future perspectives of art and craft/Encouraging the Mutual knowledge of the partecipants and speaking about their artistic vision, showing their own abilities, interests, experiences, dreams, intentions. Each partecipant will then promote its own activity/experience while discovering artistic affinity with other partecipants. This mutual artistic knowledge, wich will be shown during the itinerant exibitions. Exchanging knowledge, ideas, techniques and methodologies in order to find a common innovative representation of the union between art and craft/The partecipants will start sharing ideas, drawings, sketchs, in order to realize the artworks.