The summer 2023 tour of Calentamiento, an artistic project with a performative and environmental approach, kicks off from Manifattura Tabacchi in Florence and will travel across the peninsula from north to south.

Calentamiento is a project that originated during an artist residency in Sicily in the summer of 2021. The episode of the fire along the coastal area and a beach resort, while beachgoers continued their usual summer activities of cocktails and catchy tunes, serves as the starting point of the project. Its main themes revolve around climate change and the resulting increase in wildfires.

Calentamiento is primarily a reggaeton song, with its lyrics entirely composed by rhyming excerpts from the Spanish version of the Glasgow climate treaty. Alternating between music and the sound of flames, the song fills the exhibition space, which is simultaneously filled with smoke from special disco machines. A wooden kiosk with partially charred palm trees adds to the atmosphere. Cocktails are served, with ice cubes containing small images of fires.