SIE7E_Episode 3

Visual Arts is the third episode of the web video series SIE7E, a work that aims to explore, through the remote collaboration of Italian and Spanish artists, the various expressions of visual arts—from painting to digital arts in general—in order to reveal the healing and redemptive power of the arts and their intrinsic cathartic function. The episode highlights the constant search for beauty and the ability of art to generate a poetic universe, especially during the most challenging historical periods.

A tribute to painting through the words of Van Gogh, it was filmed in a sunflower field and features a reading of a passage from the collection Letters to Theo, written by the Dutch painter whose art has always been seen as poised between creation and madness. This episode features a collaboration with the Spanish collective Cross Border and director Lucía Miranda, who interviews Raúl Aguirre, a gardener and illustrator with intellectual functional diversity. From Raúl’s artistic work came the birth of La Cabeza del Rinoceronte, a publishing house that defends the idea of diversity and the right to be different. A contagious vital hymn shared across artistic disciplines, capable of transcending differences in language, race, religion, and gender to create a universal emotional language.

The video was created by the artistic duo Instabili Vaganti, with the collaboration of the composer Riccardo Nanni. The episode was made even more special through the collaboration with Raúl Aguirre, directed by Lucía Miranda.

Visual Art is the third episode of the web series SIE7E, a project that aims to explore the various expressions of arts through the long-distance collaboration of Italian and Spanish artists. Its goal is to convey the redemptive and salvific power of art and its intrinsic cathartic function, highlighting its constant pursuit of beauty and its ability to create a poetic universe. Furthermore, the work reflects the difficult historical moment we all experienced during COVID-19, not only in contemporary theater and dance but also in society as a whole.