Longing in-between…

Tonight I imagined to mount
an art installation. A dream denied, for time and space. A fragmented film
waiting to turn into a few documentary from my folder of watercolour. Who knows
how or when.

GVC Italia: an interview with Stefania Piccinelli

GVC represents  after 40 years the more solid reality linked to international cooperation in the territory.  I spoke to with Stefania Piccinelli, Coordinator for education development of GVC, to confront the reality of voluntary cooperation in Emilia-Romagna and in the world.

Interview with Yoshiko Hirao, Ikebana teacher -Sogetsu Foundation of Tokyo

The art of gardens that has fascinated the West for centuries and continues to influence the aesthetics of Landscaping on various scales belongs to the Japanese civilization. A conception of Landscape imported from China, which means ‘ Shinto and Buddhist elements, creating landscapes of extraordinary delicacy and beauty in cities (just think of the famous blossoming cherry trees that attracts hundreds of visitors). An art that can be brought inside the homes through the Bonsai, and especially thanks to the art of Ikebana, the art of composing with flowers.

We talk with Yoshiko Hirao, Teacher of Ikebana graduate Sogetsu Foundation, Tokyo.

Interview with Antonio Presti – founder of the Park of Fiumara d’Arte- Sicily

Art, Beauty, Nature. Sicily is without doubt an island-treasure of such gifts. Not everyone knows that holds one of the most unusual and majestic contemporary Italian art parks, Fiumara d’Arte, the opera and the great passion of Antonio Presti. Defined by most as the last of the great patrons in the lands of Magna Greecee, is an advocate of innumerable artistic initiatives dedicated to his homeland, Sicily entirely devoted to beauty, to respect, nurture and teach the new generations, so that the fight against environmental degradation, cultural and human becomes a new feel. If the civil commitment makes reality such as that of Librino of Catania, where the creativity of the youngest is redefining urban geographies normally violent, Fiumara d’Arte is an anthem to not ever to love, respect and beauty for their land. A commitment defended through a great team of artists and institutional partners and private, who believed in this project, which is a daily mission.

PAV. A living art-park in motion

The PAV –  living art-park and experimental center of contemporary art of Turin is an outdoor exhibition site, a new interactive museum, a place of encounter and experience in the laboratory, and research center dedicated to dialogue between contemporary art, nature, biotechnology and ecology, public and artists.

A contemporary art park in Emilia-Romagna: Ca’ la Ghironda

“Hic locus est ubi nature gaudet succurrere vitam“

 Ca ‘ la Ghironda born spontaneously out of love for life and excitement to the sign, color and material. Until the mid ‘ 80, the territory on which the Museum now stands was compendium agricultural, with only two large poplars and a sparse vegetation. An area almost abandoned.  After a virtuos and passionate artistic intervention by Francesco Martani lasted about twenty-five years, the complex is today  “a work of art, a realization in aesthetic representation polimaterica continues, container content for art and nature”.

Historic italian Gardens: classical paths

The tradition of the Italian garden, dating from the ‘ 500, represents a tradition of excellence in landscape architecture, admired abroad as well as within national boundaries. We present the two networks that provide the most comprehensive visit to this immense heritage, natural and human.

Contemporary Parks-Art Museums of Italy

Gardens, public parks, great private collections of outdoor sculpture.  This is the mosaic ‘ composed by the parks of contemporary art Museums of italy. An italian exellence in the field of environmental sustainability.

For contemporary art parks or “parks-Museum” means those reality spatial, urban natural feature precise will of uniting itself to the contemporary sculpture: different realities, which belong to both the artist’s Garden, as the public park and the great private collections of outdoor sculpture, the work of patrons as Antonio Presti or Francesco Martani, leading art outside the customary circuits of mass tourism to discover local art tourism which arouses great interest.

Interview with CHARLES FISHMAN

A long but very interesting interview for Sottobosco.info Magazine, dedicated to our most precious ressource: WATER. An interview with Charles Fishman, author of “The big Thirst. Secret Life and turbulent future of Water”.More news on: http://www.thebigthirst.com/the-book/

Interview with JAMES WHITLOW DELANO

Interview 03/09/2011, Green Social Festival,Bologna.National Exhibition Premiere :”The little People“, dedicated to natives of the RainForest of Malaysia, by James Whitlow Delano. An interview with the International Photojournalist about how “green”Bio-Fuel is destroying the Malaysian Rainforest and Disrupting the Native’s lives.