Friuli Venezia Giulia

“The Associazione Macross projects and implements public art works, takes care of social activities focusing on training and preparation”, says Mr. Mattia Campo dall’Orto, the responsible for Macross. “Our interventions have cultural goals, promotic artistic sensitivity amidst the young, making the public aware of new forms of expression and developing the underground creative network. In Friuli Venezia-Giulia, Macross is a border reality, as it enjoys a continuous artistic, cultural and linguistic exchange. Cultural cooperation and contacts, mostly in Middle Europe, are held by the good attitude in creating sturdy and productive over-the border relationships. The will to get rid of the more rigid conceptions of “boundary” aims at developing the more social aspects of the new urban arts, transcending division-and confront-based ideologies”.

Founded as an artistic collective in the district ATER Rozzol Melara of Trieste, where the street subculture and graffiti in particular have always been very prosperous than the rest of the city, Melart becomes Association in 2009, aiming to be a territorial cultural and artistic landmark.

Its main operational framework is R.A.S.C. (Built Area Artistic Redevelopment), first project of decorating urban spaces, divided into a series of paintings.

The goals that the association intends to pursue are research, study and dissemination of artistic traditions, the promotion of relations and exchanges between different cultures of Europe and other continents, organizing exhibitions, competitions and other artistic activities.

Melart also aims to promote research and analysis about local culture, art, architecture and city planning, with particular interest in urban creativity.

The ACU Bravi Ragazzi promotes graffiti-writing and street art as tools for connecting people and the land.

It works to understand and appreciate the value of a form of expression often confused with juvenile vandalism; to disseminate the techniques of urban art and culture; to promote cooperation between the artists in theexecution of the works, in order to obtain a result of high quality that encourages the exchange of points of view. 

Since 2006, annually it organizes the International Festival of Arts Urban “Elementi Sotterranei”, an event that is characterized by the high style of the invited artists, the collaboration between them in the realization of collective walls, the development of a theme on the walls and during the side actions, the interaction between citizens and artists. 

In parallel, the ACU organizes and manages creative-relational laboratories, exhibitions, presentations in schools, exhibitions and competitions, working with a network of associations and organizations. In 2011, it recognized Social Promotion Association. It is one of the signatories of the protocol for the trans-border urban creativity programme“Scenario”, promoted by ACU Macross.