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The “batana” at the San Francesco Village

Art 4 Tomorrow

The cultural project connecting San Francesco Village and BiVillage

We asked two artists to interpret this journey, drawing a path between Italy and Croatia

An invisible line that unites, through water, two nations and in particular two seaside towns.

Enrico Marcato and Monica Patrovic, are the artists who have been selected to draw this line between Italy and Croatia as part of the “Art 4 Tomorrow” project initiated by BiHoliday.

Venetian “briccole” at the BiVillage

The first part of “I say Art” started with Enrico Marcato’s art project for the BiVillage, in Croatia.

Three “briccole”, first exhibited in Venice on the occasion of the recent Biennale Arte exhibition, have been resettled from the atelier of the artist Enrico Marcato to a stretch of coastline in Croatia, at the BiVillage.

Learn more about the whole project here

Venetian "briccole" at the BiVillage

Painting has always fascinated me” explains the artist, emphasising that “working on the transformation of the boat was a great challenge“.

As a matter of fact, once the colours and shapes to be drawn were decided, the work was done with the boat upside down.

So it was necessary to imagine the end result “straight” and then put it on the upside-down “batana”.

The central element of this art project – as already emphasised – is cultural exchange: the boat built in Fažana is now in Caorle, at the San Francesco Village, and Marcato’s “briccole” in Fažana at the BiVillage.

“A beautiful friendship, the one between Italy and Croatia: the sea connects us, but not only.”

The Art-Activism of BiHoliday

Art, history and the concept of travel: a great cultural mix that finds its expression in this project:

BiHoliday embraces art,” explains Ilenia Cherubin, Bi-Holiday Group CEO, “as a language of values. As well as expressing the kind of Art-Activism that allows us to talk about socially important topics today“.

Among them BiHoliday emphasises the value of a territory and its respectwith everything that is related to, for example, reuse“.