19Murals
50ARTISTS
60EVENTS
2EXHIBITIONS
1REMODELED SPACE
1ARCHITECTURAL PAVILION
What if we bring surrealism back to the city?The 3rd edition of Artown Festival was about the power of small things to transform reality – a blossoming of kindness and a collective impatience for better futures.
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Saddo
The artwork depicts a giant lobster, inspired by iconic objects made by Salvador Dalí, such as the lobster telephone or Elsa Schiaparelli’s dress adorned with a Dalí-drawn lobster. The artist also drew inspiration from Jeff Koons’ inflatable lobster and Yorgos Lanthimos’ film The Lobster. These influences bring in focus themes of dreams, sexuality, nourishment, and death, giving the work a provocative and dreamlike dimension.
UrbanZone ofUnconventionalCulture
An industrial site opened in 1904. After 120 years, it has been reactivated as a lively cultural area, a hub for contemporary art. UZUC no longer functions as a factory, but continues to produce: ideas, spaces, collective energy.
In 2024, three spaces within the complex were activated: the fire station, the main hall (which housed the architecture pavilion created in collaboration with architect Alessandro Rocchi), and the secondary hall – transformed into the epicenter for the more than 60 events of the edition.
UZUC is becoming an expanding map for independent artistic practices. A testing ground, a playground, and a place for urban reconnection. Industrial past, cultural future.
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