PORTOBESENO FESTIVAL 2nd Edition 2006
between historical sources and web fluxes
web history media theatre music art
Castel Beseno, Calliano - Trento - Italy

Press Release: Public Art installation by Stefano Cagol

 WHITE FLAG

Public Art installation composed by a 12 meters / 40-feet aluminium flagstaff and one White Flag, 4 x 6 meters / 157 x 236 inches

by Stefano Cagol

June 16 - September 30 2006

Finonchio Mountain (Calliano - Trento)
On wiev from the valley from Trento to Rovereto, from the highway and the train from Verona to Brenner Pass.

OPENING @ Castello Beseno
Trentino, Italy - h 9 pm, June 16 2006

A white flag, white in which all colors of the flags of the different nations are at the same time united and cancelled.

The installation by Stefano Cagol is part of Portobeseno Festival that moves between territorial / historical dimension and new media / new consciousness. The festival realizes media events, theatre performances, music nights, exhibitions, open surveys.
The project by Cagol becomes the most symbolical intervention of the Festival thanks to the wide fruition. The big white flag and its idea of pureness against the contradictions of nowadays will be seen in fact by the extended travelers passing by the valley between Trento and Rovereto, moving through the Alps from Verona to Brenner Pass and Europe: milion of travelers in the Summer, everyone spectator of the project.


Image caption:
Stefano Cagol, White Flags. Installation, 2005, Public Art project, site-specific installation, three national flags (Italian, Austrian, European) and three white flags, Forte Strino, Italian Alps

For further info and high resolution images:
Leila Mai   mob +39.339.7054512   info@white-flags.com
http://www.white-flags.com