Without Frontiers - Lunetta a Colori 2023

With the aim to promote and give visibility to the artistic creation of the field of visual arts of the Balearic Islands, the IEB participates in the festival Without Frontiers - Lunetta a Colori 2023 with an urban art proposal by a visual artist from the Balearic Islands.

The festival WITHOUT FRONTIERS | Lunetta a Colori reaches its eighth edition this year. In the present edition, the festival seeks to create a bridge between the peripheral district of Lunetta and the center of Mantua, with such an important heritage for the history of art.

The history of the Lunetta neighborhood goes back to the 1960s when the municipal council of Mantua approved the plan that allowed the construction, in the area, of social housing for twelve thousand inhabitants. Four thousand people of eighteen different ethnicities currently live in Lunetta. The neighborhood is also home to a series of educational and socio-cultural services, such as the headquarters of the University of Brescia, a creativity laboratory, a youth center, two schools, a library and the Lunetta Cultural Camp, with a theater and dance school and spaces for artist residencies.

The project is selected through an open call. The artists must propose an artistic project to be carried out in situ (mural art, photography, installation or any other artistic language) that relates the urban space of the city to the Lunetta district. Proposalsfor workshops or participatory activities, without the production of an artistic work, are also welcomed.

The festival's technical team is in charge of all tasks related to the organization and production of the project, in addition to the travel and stay of the Balearic artist selected within the framework of the festival. The IEB collaborates with the festival by contributing the fees and travel expenses of the participating Balearic artist.

In past editions the festival hosted Joan Aguiló and Fàtima de Juan as Balearic artists.