After last year's success with the exhibition Made in New York. Keith Haring (subway drawings), Paolo Buggiani and the true origin of street art, and in 2023 Obey Make Art not war, the Torre Salt Warehouse are preparing to host a new appointment dedicated to street art in 2024

BANKSY IN CERVIA

from Friday 1st March

to Sunday 2nd June 2024

Torre Salt Warehouse

The exhibition is exceptionally extended until 9th June

Perhaps the best-known British artist in the world, the forerunner of the creative visions of an entire generation, the most representative talent of international street art is the protagonist of the Banksy exhibition in Cervia. From 1st March to 2nd June, the public will be able to admire some of the most representative works of recent decades, known everywhere for their disruptive charge and their transversal, political and social messages, capable of interpreting the complex reality of our times with the rapid and intuitive traits of street art.

Curated by Roberto Mastroianni, promoted by the Municipality of Cervia and produced and organised by MetaMorfosi Eventi, the exhibition will offer the public a rich selection of silkscreens on display for three months in the spaces of the Magazzino del Sale - Torre di Cervia.

Works on display

Among the works are some true symbolic images of the British artist's production: among these is a very particular version of Love is in the Air (Flower Thrower), the now very famous "flower thrower" that reproduces a young man throwing a bouquet of flowers in a true classically inspired triptych, a symbol of an anti-militarist revolution that overturns the common sense of urban guerrilla warfare.

The flower-thrower, who first appeared in 2003 as an uncommissioned stencil in Jerusalem on the wall built to separate Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank area, is the protagonist of the work chosen as the symbol of the exhibition: a composition of three silkscreens made by Banksy in 2019, each of them displayed with its original frame. A work rarely encountered in exhibitions dedicated to the British artist.

In addition to Love is in the Air (Flower Thrower), some of the artist's most iconic works will be on display. Among these is Girl with Balloon, perhaps Banksy's most popular image, and indeed voted in a 2017 poll as the British people's favourite work, which Banksy first painted in 2002 as a stencil on a London wall beside a bridge in the Southbank area and which the artist "signed" with a short text: "There is always hope".

The one coming to Cervia is therefore an exhibition that will allow viewers to delve into the artistic imagination of an author who has been traversing the world cultural scene for more than twenty years now, and who has also chosen the current war scenarios as the stage for his artistic messages, once again demonstrating his ability to stand in the midst of the present.

Exhibition opening

• Monday to Thursday
• from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m.
• Friday
• from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m.
• Saturdays and public holidays
• 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.
• Sundays and public holidays
• 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Admission tickets until 2nd June

FULL € 12.00

REDUCED € 10.00 (over 65, 18-25 years, residents)

REDUCED € 5,00 (6-17 years old, university students)

REDUCED € 5.00 (groups and schools, minimum 20 people)

Admission tickets from 3rd to 9th June

FULL € 10.00

REDUCED € 5,00 (6-17 years old, university students, groups and schools, minimum 20 people)

•  The reduction of the full price in the last week of opening is due to the lack of some artworks returning to collectors

The booking service is only available for group and school visits outside opening hours.

Online ticket presale on ciaotickets

Presale fees are charged

Admission is free

• for children up to 6 years of age
• for accompanying persons of school groups
• for disabled persons and their family members or other accompanying persons who can prove that they are members of social assistance services
• for tourist guides in the exercise of their professional activity, upon presentation of a valid licence issued by the competent authority, also for visits preparatory to welcoming individuals or groups (free admission is therefore extended to all occasions related to their professional activity, including those of an educational nature)
• for journalists only with prior accreditation for the purpose of writing articles about the exhibition.

GROUPS AND SCHOOLS

Groups and schools (minimum 20 people) may also visit the exhibition in the morning, subject to prior booking.
Reservations must be sent by email to Servizio Progettazione Culturale Comune di Cervia, Unità Eventi unitaeventi@comunecervia.it

GUIDED TOURS

For groups and schools, there is an additional guided tour service.

Booking of the guide service should be requested from the Cervia IAT-R Office (tel. 0544 974400, info@discovercervia.com).

The exhibition is curated by Roberto Mastroianni.
Sponsored and supported by the Municipality of Cervia, produced and organised by Metamorfosi Eventi.