{"id":220835,"date":"2026-04-23T14:57:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oliokatari.it\/gibellina-capital-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T08:49:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:49:27","slug":"gibellina-capital-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oliokatari.it\/en\/gibellina-capital-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Gibellina Capital 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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KATAR\u00cc \u00d7 Gibellina Capital 2026<\/b>
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The inaugural edition of KATAR\u00cc
For Gibellina Italian Capital of Contemporary Art 2026<\/h5>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n
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KATAR\u00cc celebrates Gibellina as the Italian Capital of Contemporary Art 2026 by transforming extra virgin olive oil into a cultural object capable of bringing together land, memory, and contemporary vision.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus, KATAR\u00cc \u00d7 Gibellina Capitale 2026 is born, the inaugural edition of KATAR\u00cc: an initiative that interprets care for the land, for time, and for relationships as concrete practices of regeneration, in dialogue with the vision of Portami il Futuro, the cultural program accompanying Gibellina in its year as Capital.<\/p>\n

The project takes shape through two limited-edition bottles of 200 copies each, created in collaboration with two local artists. Their works give life to a graphic intervention on the label that connects contemporary art, local identity and collective memory.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this edition, olive oil becomes more than a product: it turns into narrative, testimony, and symbolic gesture. A daily element that holds the memory of a place and contributes to imagining its future.<\/span><\/p>\n

KATAR\u00cc \u00d7 Gibellina Capitale 2026 is a tribute to Gibellina\u2019s ability to reinvent itself through culture and art. A project designed to support and promote, even beyond 2026, initiatives of urban, cultural, and territorial regeneration, fostering new forms of dialogue between contemporary art, territory, and community. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Olive oil as a practice of regeneration<\/b><\/p>\n

Extra virgin olive oil is born from an act of care and regeneration: the care of trees and soil, respect for natural cycles, and the patience required by every transformation.<\/p>\n

A practice that finds a profound parallel in the history of Gibellina, a city that, after the earthquake in 1968, has been able to reinvent itself through a long and continuous process, making art a tool for renewal and collective construction.
Like an olive grove, Gibellina also requires care, constant attention, and shared responsibility.
From this vision, KATAR\u00cc \u00d7 Gibellina Capitale 2026 is born: a project that interprets olive oil not only as a product of the land, but as a symbol of care, memory, and future.<\/p>\n

Artists and works:<\/b><\/p>\n

In the System of Squares of Gibellina, a symbolic space of reconstruction and memory, motionless bodies in red dresses inhabit the architecture with a stubborn presence.
The repetition of the figures along the perspective builds a silent, almost ritual rhythm that crosses the void and transforms it.<\/p>\n

Here resistance is not gesture or confrontation, but permanence: a quiet act of existing in a place marked by loss and rebirth.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Carla Sutera Sardo<\/h1><\/div><\/div>\n\n

\"The Geometry of Resistance\u201d<\/h1><\/div><\/div>\n\n