‘New languages in the arts between the two shores’, is the title of the exhibition organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of Tunis and the Orestiadi Foundation of Gibellina, curated by Enzo Fiammetta, director of the Museum of Mediterranean Weaves. The exhibition starts from the program of the Week of the Italian Language in the World, bringing together Tunisian and Italian artists in a dialogue of signs, materials and visions that crosses the Mediterranean as a shared space of creativity and memory. The vernissage will take place on Sunday 14 December at 11.30 at Baglio di Stefano in Gibellina.
On display are the works of Lynda Abdellatif, Aoufiane Bouali, Saida Dridi, Kamy Lassaad, Khaled Ben Slimane, Sonia Ben Slimane, Besada, Emilio Angelini, Dalila Belato, Silvio Cattani, Leonardo Fisco, Officine Palmizi, Marilù Viviano and Nuove Ceramiche Gibellina. A special section is dedicated to the historical works of the 1980s created by the Cooperativa delle Ceramiche di Gibellina based on designs by Carla Accardi, Pietro Consagra and Arnaldo Pomodoro. The exhibition takes up the thread of cultural dialogue that the Orestiadi Foundation, since the 1990s, has intertwined with Tunisia through its historic headquarters in Dar Bach Hamba, in the heart of the Medina of Tunis. A profound bond that is renewed today, in the name of art as a bridge between peoples and languages, and which will continue in 2026 with a second chapter in Gibellina, the Italian capital of contemporary art.
The project is curated by the Orestiadi Foundation in collaboration with the director of the Italian Cultural Institute, Fabio Ruggirello, sponsored by the Municipalité de la Ville de Tunis, by the Cattedra Sicilia ‘V. Consul’ for the dialogue between cultures and civilizations of the University of la Manouba and by the Unirc Architecture and Design Department of the Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria and supported by the Italian embassy in Tunisia.