Works of art made of waste with Hera's Scart project on display in Agrigento

Recycling masterpieces in the Italian capital of culture

RIMINI – A partnership in the name of art, recycling and sensitivity towards environmental heritage.With the frame of Ecomondo, the green economy exhibition of the Italian exhibition group underway in Rimini, Hera presents the collaboration between the Scart project, which creates works from industrial waste, and Agrigento Italian capital of culture in 2025.With partners the Seap group, which on the island of Lampedusa it collects waste wood from boats linked to the migratory phenomenon.

As Herambiente Marketing Director and creator of the Scart project Maurizio Giani explained to the press this afternoon at the multiutility stand, from 18 January, and for a month, Scart's works will "furnish" the Pirandello theater in Agrigento with inauguration of the exhibition on the same day official proclamation of the Italian Capital of Culture, in the presence of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella and the President of the Council of Ministers Giorgia Melonthe.And among the most significant works there will be the Temple of Concordia made with wood from migrant boats.In addition to the portraits depicting the stars, from Alain Delon to Sofia Loren.Other events will then be organized during 2025.

The initiative, underlines Giani, "fits perfectly into the events of Agrigento, the Italian capital of culture:Scart, in fact, creates culture, it is an educational project", which involves students from schools in various cities, and in these 26 years of activity he has seen his collection grow to over 2,000 pieces.

Also launching the collaboration today at Ecomondo are the majority parliamentarians of the Commission of Inquiry into Ecomafias, President Jacopo Morrone and Calogero Pisano:“We are particularly committed to the Green Code”, explains the first, and therefore to regulatory proposals that give more effective tools for law enforcement to intervene.The objective is to "enhance excellence and protect Made in Italy from unfair competition".Colleague Pisano recalls the 43 projects of Agrigento's candidacy, underlining that with Scart the objective is “leave an innovative imprint on the territory for a new way of seeing the environment”. On the other hand, agrees the Councilor for Culture of Agrigento Costantino Ciulla, "the beauty of waste is a message for the new generations and the city needs to express many things, from the landscape to history to food and wine".Nicolas Walter Vella of Seap is of the same opinion: waste is recovered to give it "new life"..And this is an opportunity to publicize the city.The collaboration with Hera and Scart - he concludes - is fundamental to convey our ideas".