Ars Maris

As I was thinking about an idea for this piece, I had a plastic bottle on the table. I thought about how every year 8 million tons of plastic end up in the oceans, home of the fish. This made me imagine how I would feel if tomorrow, when I woke up, my house was so full of trash that it was no longer possible to live there.
For a moment, I could imagine how fish cry when we destroy their homes and sentence them to live in dirty plastic cages.

ERRATA CARMONA

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I want to celebrate the richness of marine species by representing animals that are often forgotten or little known. Silver Hammerhead is a 925 sterling silver necklace molded in hand wax. The length of the chain is 45cm.

GIOVANNA SCOTOLATI

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The painting is inspired by an Apulian landscape seen during one of my trips. After walking along the coast, I realized that the majority of the landscapes seen were ruined by remnants of plastic or cruises in the distance.
This was one of the few landscapes seen that included only natural elements, and I wondered if in a few years this too will be covered in trash. That is why I wanted to save this view on a canvas.

TANYAVATI

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I picked up a seashell at the seashore, a wave washed over her, the sky with its starry reflections and the full moon seemed to be reflected in her. I picked her up and laid her on my ear, I heard a siren song that ravished my heart into an eternal love inside that shell.

DANIELE SITZIA

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Sirens are beauty and mystery, guarded by one of the most beautiful spectacles on our planet, the sea. They seem to tell us that everything is possible , it depends only on us and what we want to see. They expect all of us together to dedicate ourselves to saving the marine world and together with them everything will be easier and Magical!

ANGELA SPANO

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The title of the work “Abyss” has two meanings, one more concrete and the other more abstract: the first represents the marine flora and fauna of our Mediterranean Sea. The second meaning symbolizes the point of no return that we are in danger of reaching if we do not change our habits and act in favor of the planet.
The dress is made and embroidered entirely by hand by designer Iole Trombetta. All the fabrics used in the making of this project are leftovers from previous collections she created, with the aim of raising awareness of environmental protection.
The dress is a one-shoulder sheath dress with a mix of workmanship: iridescent organza draping in shades of blue representing the hues and waves of the sea, embroidery representing an octopus and marine figures (a fish and corals).
This dress can have a dual use: it can be both worn and displayed as a contemporary work.

IOLE TROMBETTA

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In this work I replaced what is the landscape within which I usually move, black, dark, with a deep blue. The search through the unconscious, the soul, moves into the depths of the abyss, where the possible findings belong to the main events of human existence and the consequences of these, which remain submerged.
Immersed in the shadows that our lives create, nature and psyche merge on this deep blue backdrop to create a path through the abyss that man is forced to cross in order to understand the past and prepare to face the future.

LUCA CUTRUFELLI

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Sirens are beauty and mystery, guarded by one of the most beautiful spectacles on our planet, the sea. They seem to tell us that everything is possible, it depends only on us and what we want to see. They expect all of us together to dedicate ourselves to saving the marine world and together with them everything will be easier and Magical!

ANGELA SPANO

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The 4 elements are inherent in ceramics (air, fire, earth, water) and all coexist in perfect balance. Stable as long as we allow it to remain so.
The work is like a window to the sea that is almost “stopped,” as if it were a snapshot, under the crystalline. Almost like a protective blanket, so that its balance may last forever.

ALESSANDRA COSSU

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The work in question depicts a tuna and aims to denounce the gradual disappearance of this species in the Mediterranean, caused by intensive overfishing driven by ever-increasing demand.

ALESSANDRO TORRISI

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The work depicts a minke whale, the second largest animal on the Planet and the only whale regularly found in the Mediterranean. The frame is made from plastic personally collected by the artist on the beaches of the Arcipelago Della Maddalena, colorful and very dangerous fragments discarded by an abused sea.

CECILIA DEL FABBRO

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I wanted to narrate on this canvas, in a very naive way, the great problem that plagues the coasts of far southern Sardinia, now a NATO domain. The military polygon at Cape Teulada is one of the largest in Europe. It covers 7,200 hectares where simulated wars involving all Italian armed forces take place, but frequent joint maneuvers with other allied nations also take place there. The intensity of training often involves a situation of sea, land and air servitude that goes far beyond the boundaries of the military domain. The settlement came into being in 1958 through the expropriation of areas from local farmers and pastoralists. Just these days a massive military exercise is taking place, involving several European nations. We, the inhabitants of this place, continue to fight for our wonderful sea and beaches, now almost all inaccessible, to be reclaimed, because they are full of often unexploded ordnance, both in the seabed and on the sand, in places frequented by bathers.
Saving the sea from war. It is important to share this situation to break the wall of silence and omertà about military servitudes. Here exercises take place for much of the year depriving locals of access by land and sea to the Dunes of Teulada, Cala Zafferano and all the other wonderful beaches, the domain of NATO. The countless risks to the population, the environmental pollution, and the many, too many military and civilian deaths are the result that environmental pollution has been going on for far too long.. Sardinia, an ancient, magical land with the most beautiful sea in the world, cannot suffer such a serious attack.

LORENA IBBA

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Inspired by a painting by M.Lupo.
Fishermen’s wives, waiting for their return, sew their nets while admiring the sea.

NUNZIO MARCHESI

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The canvas is a 100x90cm pure cotton. The protagonist of the canvas is Rhizostoma pulmo, also known as sea lung. This specimen was not chosen only for its colors and charm. It is one of the most common inhabitants of the Mediterranean Sea.
Unfortunately, the sea lungs are greatly threatened by climate change and human activity, especially during the summer months. This painting, therefore, is intended as an invitation to admire the beauty of this jellyfish and reflect on the important role it plays in its habitat.

ALESSIA PULLANO

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The work “Ossigena gli occhi” represents the continuous renewal of research. Strong pollution is expressed in the dark, irregular spaces that break into the blue surface. The white line infracts the space and tells us that thin thread between the irreversible change of climate and the self-regeneration of the seas.

SIMONA SARTI

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My works go beyond common aesthetic values by selecting the natural element to create a sculpture, and at the same time, by maintaining a dialogue between the material and its context of origin, I aspire to make people think about the environment in which we live.
There are currently 35.6 billion washes per year in Europe, which corresponds to tons of microfibers released into rivers and oceans every day. It is also estimated that textile production is responsible for about 20 percent of global drinking water pollution from dyes and other finishing products. The way people dispose of unwanted clothing has changed after a significant drop in
prices shortened the life cycle of clothing. Used clothes can be exported outside the EU, but most are incinerated or landfilled. I remember that in the old days, after washing in the river, before drying, the cloths had to be well wrung out, the cloths were held between two women, they were turned on opposite sides, and only then were the cloths hung out to dry.
Inspired by the work of laundresses, I created a work that reuses textiles.
These fabrics look like water, forming a waterfall. The sculpture is made from twisted knots of soft materials, made stronger and more stable by the action of twisting. The action of transforming a material with a sculptural intervention adds conceptual value, animates a reflection on where we are and what we are experiencing. In my art practice I use the technique of weaving as a metaphor
for mutually interfering facts and phenomena, to talk about the history of a place and give attention to the environmental and social changes in the surroundings themselves.

LEME

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Taste of the sea. Taste of salt.
Through my paintings I try to tell the story of the will to live and love that I have, finding in art new stimuli and new ways to express my sensitivity.

FEDERICO CUMIN

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The artist, sensitive to social and environmental issues, tackles the theme “The Mediterranean” with sagacity and acumen. He chose to give words to a dramatic aspect of our contemporary times. He has rendered the sea much agitated by its dramas with the whitish glow of the apex of the surging
waves that leave on the shoreline the varied signs of their passage and the red streaks of its suffering.
He then studded the image with gold leaf crumbs that make for interesting symbolism: the Mediterranean is the mare nostrum, repository of the marks of our civilization and rich in waters that are increasingly precious today. The gold gems are juxtaposed with drops of blood red that refer directly to the actuality of thousands of corpses of shipwrecked and buried in the sea. What is left for the artist but to close with a new symbology? The dripping from the sea are the tears of those who would like to overcome those waves in search of new landings of salvation, they are the weeping of the sea tired of being the grave of women, men and children, they are the weeping of the living who refuse to lose their humanity and thus want to save the dignity of civilized men

LOREDANA PREVOT

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One need only dive in, beyond the surface line, to discover a wonderful world where life pulsates in a myriad of colors and shapes.
A parallel world most often unknown and violated by our ignorance.

FLORA GATTONI

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Nature in turmoil both frightens and excites us.
The force it releases induces us to respect, to be aware of how small and insignificant our being is.

FLORA GATTONI

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The color moves across the paper, the water moves it, to form an unpredictable play of light, shadow, transparency: it is with watercolor that I try to celebrate the beauty of the marine world, hoping to convey some of the wonder I feel in front of nature.

ANNA GALLOTTI

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The color moves across the paper, the water moves it, to form an unpredictable play of light, shadow, transparency: it is with watercolor that I try to celebrate the beauty of the marine world, hoping to convey some of the wonder I feel in front of nature.

ANNA GALLOTTI

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The work was designed for Montessori Model United Nation, an NGO that works to spread global citizenship issues, as part of the 2022 lecture series.
It specifically refers to Goal 14 of the UN Agenda 2030: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.
The digital illustration brings attention to the impact of anthropization: the sixth mass extinction gives way to technofossils, water quality reflects air quality, yet something magical remains in the seabed, the power of a blue that invites us to look inside

CHIARA ARNONE

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Plastic bags are commonly mistaken for food by sea animals.
Instead of shells, their homes are pieces of trash.

GIANLUCA LATTUADA

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Dundalk. Ireland. Seagulls, herons, smell of salt spray, grains of sand between bricks and stone. Collected 47 objects, mostly misplaced junk. They rise in the wind like hollow puffs in the white of light. Fix their epidermis, history, possible dirt; invisible ink, perceptible to touch.
White Water Whiff : surgical mask skin to imprint paper. Cellulose and water to see, dry, that what we need most, is to return grateful, reciprocal, caring.

ALICE BERTOLASI

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Portrait of an androgynous female figure in the deep sea enveloped by the Herring King; Regalecus glesne, a large abyssal fish.
The regaleco is quite fragile even though its size makes it almost immune to predators. This incredible animal can be found down to -1500 meters, and at those depths it is never alone…

MYRIAM EL ASSIL

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Watercolor illustration of some Ophiureas with long, sinuous arms.
Their name comes from the Greek word ophis meaning snake, in fact they are also called serpentine stars.

MYRIAM EL ASSIL

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I was at Torre del Cerrano Marine Protected Area with my fiancée Francesca to monitor recently hatched fratino chicks as volunteers for the Salvafratino Abruzzo project. And with the sunrise, these newly hatched chicks well thought of escaping from their parental protection to explore the beach-a unique scene but unfortunately increasingly rare to observe on our beaches due to the decreasing number of individuals of this species because of the destruction of beaches to make way for mass tourism.

MATTEO FERRETTI

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The Little Dolphin swims happily doing acrobatics under the watchful gaze of his mother and other females in the group; a high-pitched whistle alerts the little family: one of their kind is warning that there are treacherous materials on the seabed and care must be taken…the Little One is now aware that there are dangers…whose fault is it? Those beings – mammals like us but with legs and arms, smiling, sometimes swimming with us….
Dear Piccolo, some of that species may be guilty of death and destruction of the Planet and its Oceans, and others, not many, instead try to save animals and plants from this destruction–they are our Friends.

MARIELLA BOGLIACINO

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The whale, a conscious breather, becomes the subject of the work, and a metaphor for what we should adopt as our attitude to everyday life. It goes through various situations, various hues, and tries to adapt in a conscious and civic-minded way. A citizen who is responsible and respectful of the environment she lives in. Because of their habitat, whales are “conscious breathers”-they must
decide when to breathe.

KIA RUFFATO

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It is intended to denounce the pollution of the sea and the plastic that harms it.

ADRIANA PIGNATARO

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The basic idea of the work is that art is one more sense we all have at our disposal to pick up more or less hidden meanings in everything that constitutes the world. In it nothing is more noble and important than anything else. The importance and nobility depend only on us who, without prejudice, must know how to value everything and every moment of our lives.
Specifically, the works I propose are eco design art objects made from mostly recycled materials that can be considered at the same time works of design, craftsmanship and art.
This painting again arises from the material, in this case recording tapes of old audio tapes, which are mixed with plastic fragments joined with transparent silicone. They resemble algae exaggeratedly developed as a result of climate change, amidst which beautiful little fish stubbornly continue to live.
The panel is arranged for them to be backlit.

ANTONIO CECCARELLI

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Talassa is the divine and feminine personification of the sea, born at the dawn of creation, she is the fecundity of the sea itself.

ANGELA POLICASTRO

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Design and art play a decisive role in plastic recovery, the reuse of plastic in creative world not only acts responsibly and individually to reduce pollution but to grow a new philosophy of recovery design that can enhance not only plastic waste but all disposable materials that are not one hundred percent exploited. The very term “plastic” comes from the Greek plastikè and means the art of shaping, forming and molding shapes.
A real innovative way of making art. Through my work I wanted to send the message of recycling materials, mainly plastic, by treating it in a creative and innovative way. I made a dress with a full skirt and a bodice with a sweetheart neckline using pieces of offcuts found in fabric stores. The bodice was entirely creatively costumed through the recycling of plastic bottles cut into small
triangular pieces and applied to the bodice giving it extra rigidity. Through my work I want to send the message to start recycling plastic and all those materials that pollute the world, having fun recycling it and recreating from these simple elements innovative and creative things.

LUCREZIA VILLA

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