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“BIENNIALE TEATRO 2016” by Cecilia Fortuna

Babilonia Teatri, Silver Lion in Venice, with the show Pinocchio “For the sensitivity in dealing with complex themes without abusing the real dramas of the performers. For a theater that shows us spectators a reality that is not always visible. For their humanity. For their scenic beauty. Because they are necessary in the world of theatre. Because they are needed by the world." These are the reasons, […]

“Homage to Harry Halbreich: For a musicology with an indomitable and rebellious soul” by Pierre Albert Castanet

In memoriam of the numerous, passionate discussions held between Brussels, Paris, Zurich... Of Belgian nationality, Harry Halbreich (Berlin, 1931 – Brussels, 2016) was an unusual and independent effigy of 20th century European musicology. Born in Germany, he has always been attracted by sincerity, singularity and artistic exception. A European ante litteram, after the exile of the Second World War, he followed his first music courses in […]

The crab apple forests of Tien Shan – Conversation with Natalya Ogar

Introduction This year the Carlo Scarpa International Garden Award, promoted by the Benetton Studi Ricerche Foundation of Treviso, was dedicated to the wild apple forests of Tien Shan, in Kazakhstan, while the burnished brass seal designed by Carlo Scarpa was awarded to the Kazakh scholar Natalya Ogar who has been working for decades in the field of international academic research, dedicating herself above all to study, research […]

“IN MEMORY OF VALENTINO ZEICHEN” by Valerio Magrelli

His voice as an ancient and haughty hidalgo If I had to propose an adjective to describe Valentino Zeichen, his style as a man and as an author, I would certainly say "mocking". His poetry is placed in the sign of sarcasm, now applied to the great philosophical and scientific systems (in a rich bricolage of specialist codes), now to a gallery of characters who seem to be taken from his beloved Martial (Moravia […]

Remembering Valentino Zeichen by Duccio Trombadori

This is a memory of the poet Valentino Zeichen, who passed away last July 5th, sent to Il Foglio by the art critic, painter and journalist Duccio Trombadori. Certainly the most genuine and sincere portrait of a great artist always against the tide. Valentino has died. I had known him since 1958. He was twenty years old, I was just thirteen years old, I saw him emerge from the thick slopes of Villa Strohlfern, him climbing starting […]

“YVES BONNEFOY – The music of words” by Valerio Magrelli

In times gone by, observed a great musician, the shoemaker made shoes for others: today, however, he only makes them for himself. In its disarmed simplicity, this quote summarizes the development of the arts in the last two centuries, since the divorce between the author and his audience took place. In fact, starting right from music, this distance has widened so much as to constitute, in […]

“IMAGINE. New images in Italian art 1960-1969” by Cecilia Fortuna

A new exhibition is hosted in the summer at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. An exhibition dedicated, as the curator Luca Massimo Barbero explains, to the recomposition and re-emergence of the image, after the overcoming of the avant-garde and monochrome. The term “imagine” from the English “to imagine” indicates the action of forming a mental image. The return to the image is in fact the common thread that holds the exhibition together, investigating […]

Vernissage exhibition B'TEVA: LANDSCAPES OF EXISTENCE

Some shots of the vernissage of the exhibition B'Teva: Landscapes of existence which took place on Sunday 15 May at Palazzo Albrizzi in Venice. We thank Daniela Katia Lefosse for the photos, here is her website www.danielakatialefosse.it All photos are covered by copyright and their diffusion is prohibited.

“My friend Goffredo Parise” by Raffaele La Capria

This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Goffredo Parise. Finnegans remembers the Venetian writer through a testimony of his writer friend Raffaele La Capria. Goffredo Parise in via della Camilluccia, photo by Serena Rossetti My friend Goffredo Parise* by Raffaele La Capria I owe a lot to Goffredo Parise, and not only a cheerful friendship but also an affectionate affinity demonstrated by some letters he wrote to me, letters that […]

Andrea Rizza Goldstein

Andrea Rizza Goldstein has been working for the Alexander Langer Stiftung Foundation since 2010 as coordinator of the Adopt Srebrenica project in Bosnia-Herzegovina and with the Bosnian group, in recent years, he has been involved in the creation of the Adopt Srebrenica Documentation Center. Always interested in the dynamics of narration and its role in the transmission of individual and collective memory, he has mainly expressed himself with the photographic language in […]

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