Gliacrobati Gallery was born in 2017, as an idea of a group of operators of the non-profit association Fermata d’Autobus. Conceived as an exhibition space looking at the complexities and fragilities of the existing, it aims for an international dialogue between mainstream and non-mainstream contemporary art in order to investigate its precious, porous and jagged border areas.
For this aim, the gallery fosters the research of authors working outside the official art system, independently or in protected places: self-taught artists, outsiders, authors coming from war zones or areas of economic and cultural crisis.
Contemporary art is particularly given voice here as a tool for reflection and countering human rights violations and gender-based violence.
The gallery is directed by Francesco Sena, Artist and art therapist.
In addition to its exhibition activities, Gliacrobati Gallery supports an atelier-workshop open to artists and psychiatric patients with dual diagnoses, coordinated by Carola Lorio, photo-art therapist, and Francesco Sena, carried out in collaboration with the therapeutic communities Fermata d’Autobus and Fragole Celesti (see Gliacrobati Collective).
At a time in history when beauty seems to lose ground, replaced by a brutalised everyday life choked by violence, the artistic experience – with its looking inward – can be a tool of resistance and can provide a new key to understanding human relationships.