There is no place like home

For its fourth edition, “There is no place like home” invites 30 artists to an unusual and little known location of the capital: a dock on the river Tiber in the vicinity of Ponte Marconi. The area, ordinarily inaccessible to the public, will be home to a series of performances and works of art displayed within an old fishing boat, moored along the dock for this very occasion.

The exhibition, which presents installations, video projections and performances, will be inaugurated Friday 16 th September 2016 from 16:00 to 23:00 and will last until 30 th September 2016. The participating artists in this edition of “There is no place like home” will be Josè Angelino, Massimo Bartolini and Pietro Riparbelli, Stefan Burger, Ludovica Carbotta, Alessandro Cicoria, Michela de Mattei, Maria Adele Del Vecchio, Federica Di Carlo, Stanislao Di Giugno, Fantazio, Michael Fliri, Federico Fusi, Judith Kakon, Tobias Kaspar, Masbedo, Jacobo Miliani, Jonathan Monk, Liliana Moro, Matteo Nasini, Luigi Ontani, Jorge Peris, Giuseppe Pietroniro, Gianni Politi, Daniele Puppi, Calixto Ramirez, Marco Raparelli, Vincenzo Simone, Nico Vascellari, Italo Zuffi.

The exhibition offers a new insight into Rome, a view from its guts: the restless grey-water of the Tiber. Contemporary art breathes new life into the river which courses through the city, where its aspects of nature and navigation are still preserved. From the urban landscape of Lungotevere San Paolo we step through number 48 making our way along a dirt track which leads us to the dock, between the pillars of Ponte Guglielmo Marconi and the rushes of the fluvial landscape. Displayed inside the boat, surrounded by vegetation the artist’s works undulate. Over fifteen days the visitors will be able to explore the bankside and venture on board.

“There is no place like home”  is a contemporary art project conceived in Rome in 2014 from an initiative of a group of artists (Giuseppe Pietroniro, Stanislao Di Giugno, Marco Raparelli, Alessandro Cicoria, Daniele Puppi) and two art historians (Giuliana Benassi and Giulia Lopalco) whose objective is to create a dialogue between art and the city by installing exhibitions within spaces which are not usually dedicated to culture, and which acquire a new value through the artist’s work.