“Paths”, the first Festival of Contemporary Art, is going to start on 31^st March: a collective and travelling exhibition in the maze of streets of Amelia’s town centre, a village of Roman origin in the southern side of Umbria built on three levels and surrounded by ‘cyclopean’ walls that for a month will be the location for experiments, a laboratory and a framework of dialogue between contemporary art and the town’s inhabitants.

It’s an exhibition created to imagine the stages of a visual and symbolic itinerary uniting memory and metaphors of faraway travels between East and West, between “The Silk Road” and the “Via Francigena”, that crossed centuries ago in this territory of horizons as far as the eye can see.

Artists are going to ‘scatter’ their own artworks – paintings, photos, videos, installations, all the composite repertoire of the current art - among the streets of Amelia’s historical centre, in the hallways of the ancient noble palaces that will be opened just for the occasion, as well as in the monumental spaces of the Roman cisterns dating back to the 2^nd century B.C., located below Piazza Matteotti or on the walls of deconsecrated buildings.

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www.sentieriartecontemporanea.com