art institutes: acquerelli per non sprecare la vita

This is a global art action about the making aware to the correct use of the water resources, ideated by Giuseppe Stampone and addressed to the primary school children. Spread as an artistic-social project through the intervention of Solstizio (www.progettosolstizio.net) and the support of Progettomondo MLAL (www.mlal.org). The main feature of Water-colors is the territorial expansion with the involvement of public and private organizations , schools, educational districts, cultural agencies, groups and movements. The first experiment took place in the province of Teramo in 2006, involving 80 school institutes of 40 minicipalities, and more than 10.000 school children; now it is spreading in Marche, Veneto and Umbria. Through an artistic and educational path where every child takes part decorating a bottle, assimilated to the human body, and transforming it in his self-portrait. A recycled plastic bottle becomes, from a private water container, means to represent a fragment of the world with its specificities. The artist chooses the bottles and composes them creating photographic posters of different measures; the aim is to create a cognitive map of identities, mixed from the meetings, the changes, the colors and the fantasies. In the final show the artist reforms and re-connects the single differences in an only moment of sharing, where the different ways of interpreting the reality meet each others. The single bottles make out an enormous installation in the city main ...