“Costante Cambiamento” in Florence

Costante Cambiamento (“Continuous Change”), a festival dedicated to contemporary art and culture, will come back in Florence from 19th September to 8th October.

Costante Cambiamento, on its 12th edition, is a festival really unique, in a class by itself, which every year suggests a different itinerary to explore the contemporary art world.

Costante Cambiamento is a special event where human expression has neither limits nor barriers, where art is represented in all its dimensions, an art which is dance, cinema, design, but also poetry and literature.

Every year the festival chooses a place in the world where art and culture are the witnesses of that country’s history , and where artistic expression is in step with the social evolution.

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European Heritage Days: discovering Italy

The next Italian week-end will be entirely dedicated to art and culture. Yes, because on 29^th and 30^th September Italy will take part to the European Heritage Days, this year with the name “Le grandi strade della cultura: un valore per l’Europa” (“The wide roads of culture: a treasure for all Europe”).

Therefore, to make Italians and tourists happy, during this week-end all the art places, as museums, archaeological sites, and art galleries will open their doors to the public, with free entrance. People will also have the chance to enjoy the organization of many exhibitions, concerts, conferences and guided artistic itineraries.

European Heritage Days are a perfect and unique opportunity to know and explore with no limits all the treasures of our country, discovering historical and artistic details, which make the Italian artistic heritage one of the richest in the world. For two special days, Italians and tourists from every corner of the world will have the opportunity to visit thousands of art places and to see artworks which for the first time will be admired by the public.

In this edition of European heritage Days, special attention will be given to ancient churches and buildings of our country, which are the most important proof of 20^th century’s Italian art history, and which have been remained in the shadow for too much time.

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Milan’s Autumn is in “Festival”

The autumn in Milan is divided into two parts, between a ‘goodbye’ and a ‘welcome’ to two of the most important events in our country: the ‘Milano Film Festival’ and ‘Comiconvention’.

Yes, because on the 21st September the ‘Milano Film Festival’ will come to end, one of the most important cinematic events in Italy. The Festival, which every year gathers together hundreds of cinematography fans and experts in the wonderful Milan, is famous most of all for the great involvement of many movie directors, authors and works from numerous countries in the world.The manifestation is made up of several sections, each one dedicated to an important piece of the cinema world. There’s the ‘Concorso Lungometraggi’ (‘Full-lenght Movies Competition’), which presents 10 movies from 9 different countries, all works of young authors; the ‘Concorso Cortometraggi’ (‘Short-Movies Competition’) with 48 short movies from 23 countries; and in addition, there’s “Retrospettiva” (“Retrospective”), which is certainly one of the most charming appointments of Milano Film Festival. This year it’s entitled “The Imaginarium of Dr. Gilliam”, and shows an unmissable retrospective on Terry Gilliam’s visions. But the “Milano Film Festival” is not only cinema… the cinematic event infact will be flanked by Musica’ (‘Music’), a series of concerts of every kind of music which are oriented towards most of all the youngest ones, making in this way the Festival a place to meet and know new friends.

So, we are talking about meetings, youth and parties… and these are just the same keywords of the other great event which will take place in Milan and will open the next Autumn season: Comiconvention! (more…)

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Historic Regatta in Venice

As well as last year, on the first Sunday of September, the “Regata Storica” (”Historic Regatta”) will take place, the most important traditional event of Venice that occured for the first time on the 10th of January, 1315, during the government of the Doge Giovanni Soranzo. This ancient event, during the period of the Serenissima Republic of Venice, was organized to celebrate the war victories or to thank the foreign dignitaries and today it is divided into two different parts: the corteo storico and the regattas. The Historic Regatta starts with a multicoulored acqueous procession made by the Bissone, the Bucintoro and by the Venetian rowing school boats; the procession remembers of the arrival of Cyprus’ queen Caterina Cornaro in Venice. But if the meaning of the procession is the historic remembrance, the regattas represent the highlight of the Venetian rowing agonistic season: during this day the victory allows you to be part of the Venetian rowing history. A long time ago the partecipation (more…)

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PALIO DI SIENA (Palio dell’Assunta)

It is drawing near the date of August 16th, when the Palio di Siena (Palio dell’Assunta) will take place, the most ancient horse race in the world. The Palio is one of the most famous and popular Italian manifestations and it takes place every year on July 2nd (Palio di Provenzano) and August 16th (Palio dell’Assunta). The Palio is an historical secular tradition closely connected with the origin of the “Contrade” of Siena (districts into which the town is divided): ten horses and riders represent ten of the seventeen “Contrade” in a spectacular horse race around Piazza del Campo, which attracts visitors and spectators from around the world. The districts (”Contrade”) are characteristical agonistic institutions each having their own government, oratory, coat of arms, appellations, sometimes titles of nobility, emblems and colours, official representatives, festivities and patron Saints; they have a delimited territory and its population consists of all those people who were born or are living within the topographic limits of the district.

The history of the Palio needs to be searched in medieval traditions, and in the games that

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The battle of the bridge: a tradition in Pisa

On the 29th of June, there will be in Pisa the Battle of the Bridge. It is an historical waking demonstration, which is divided in two different moments: the Historical Procession, which is a sort of large military parade with more than 709 figurants, and the Battle on the Ponte di Mezzo, where the teams of the contending factions show their physical strenght creating a suggestive and impressing athmosphere.

The Battle of the Bridge is a very old tourney, whose first surely-documented edition

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Francis Bacon in Palazzo Reale

Extended until 28th of August the exhibition that Palazzo Reale in Milan, in cooperation with Skira and Arthemisia organizes about Francis Bacon. He is considered the last of the great 20th century masters and the one who could transmit the uneasiness of the modern man in painting.

With this great event, the city of Milan wants to celebrate the centenary of Bacon’s birth that will occurr next year.

The exposition, handled by Professor Rudy Chiappini, shows in an exhaustive way the artistic career of the irish artist through its works coming from the most important museums and collections worldwide.

The core of the artistic display provides for the exposition of over one hundred works, almost all as yet unknown here in Italy, including eighty-two paintings and about fifteen drawings, plus as many objects that are part of the archive material carrying the artist’s mark. More than fifty years of career described by a large number of works which range from paintings to sketches and pictures.

A room of Palazzo Reale presents, for the first time in Italy, the photographic reproduction of Bacon’s studio of London, which was the little microcosm where he lived between 1961 and 1992, the chaotic studio where he kept all his books, papers, sketches, colours, canvases, photographs and notes, and everything else that could be a source of inspiration for him. The show opens with a set of important works on paper, which were only found after the artist’s death and have never been displayed in Italy before. Then it continues with the paintings dating back to the years after the Second World War, when Bacon made himself known at an international level thanks to the “Studies for Figures” and to his “Heads”.

Special attention is given to document Bacon’s activity in the ’50s, which was devoted to portraits made just for his friends or made to order. These paintings are dwelled by blurred and ghastly figures, desfigured and deformed faces and bodies disappearing into the darkness of the background. During the following decade, his characters started appearing in a more definite and lit space and they gain volume and expressiveness. In the great triptychs of the ’70s, his care for individual subjects had become slightly exasperating.

Among the works exposed, we mention in particular “Three Studies of the Male Back” and “Triptych”. Only during the later years of his life, Bacon stopped “fighting” with the characters of his paintings, showing their inner essence and transforming them into a few spots of colour clotted on neutral backgrounds.

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Macchiaioli: Tuscan Art on Exhibition in Venice

Until 27th July at Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti in Venice, an exclusive exhibition is open to the public, and it’s dedicated to the artworks belonging to the great Macchiaioli of Tuscan 19th century: I MACCHIAIOLI CAPOLAVORI DELLA COLLEZIONE MARIO TARAGONI.

It seems to be nothing special, but the real peculiarity of this exhibition is that all the artworks on view come from the private collection of Mario Taragoni, great art collector who, between the 30s’ and the 70s’ gathered a rich collection of works.

The collector’s attention in choosing the works, has always been directed mostly to the Tuscan painting, for which he had a great passion, but in its selection prefered most of all Macchiaioli’s artworks, a painting movement which was born in Florence between the 19th and the 20th century, and whose name was defined by an anonymous reviewer with negative connotation. (more…)

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Pierre Auguste Renoir: Artworks which are witnesses of a journey

He was one of the 19th century art genius, and now Pierre Auguste Renoir’s artworks are in an exhibition in Rome until 29th June at the Complesso of the Vittoriano.

The exhibition is called “La maturità tra classico e moderno” is dedicated to Renoir’s artistic production which followed his journey in Italy, by retracing this phase of his work through an itinerary made up of 150 pictures.

The painter arrived to Italy in autumn 1881, going from the North to the South of the country. Renoir’s journey initially was just a study and work trip, to search inspiration, a motivating force to take himself out of the Impressionist movement.

Inspiration which swept the artist and which came from the vision and study of Italian classic artworks, proved by notes, sketches and drafts gathered in a sort of travel book which Renoir wrote during his stay in italy.

Therefore the exhibition tries to emphasize the importance of this Italian “awakening” of the artist, but also highlights the absolut variety of the artistic genius of Renoir, who during his long career used different tecniques to paint very different subjects.

The exhibition’s artworks which come from prestigious private collections from all over the world, portrait young women in their simple acts and activities but full of sensuality, so…mothers, ladies and children, but also the more recent artworks dedicated to the landscapes. (more…)

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Giacomo Balla: the story of an artist on exhibition in Milan

Until 2nd June 2008 Palazzo Reale in Milan will host an exceptional exhibition dedicated to one of the greatest representatives of Italian Futurism: Giacomo Balla.

At the exhibition called “Giacomo Balla - La Modernità Futurista” (”Giacomo Balla - The Futurist Modernity“) it will be possible admire the whole Balla’s futuristic production, movement to which the artist conformed later than his contemporaries. The exhibition is founded on the study and the analysis of his futuristic artworks, true fount of energy.

Virtuosities of shapes and colours, broken shapes which give movement to the pictures. Artworks which still talk about sensations and shivers, maybe because of Balla’s previous artworks.

Spectators can admire about 200 artworks on exhibition, and for this occasion they will have the chance to retrace the whole artistic itinerary of the painter, highlighting the crucial moments of change.

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