18/08/2010 Folk Art Paradise: Joe Minter’s African Village in America
In 1989, retired construction worker and artist Joe Minter, Sr. had a vision: He wanted to commemorate 400 years of Africans in America by creating an installation using found materials, and erect it in his backyard. Concerned that the then newly opened Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham would exclude the masses of ordinary people involved in the movement, he prayed, and received his mission from God, to document the struggle in his own way. The installation is created by his home into the west side of Birmingham, Alabama.
29/07/2010 11th edition of the EUROPEAN DAY OF JEWISH CULTURE
05 September 2010
This year edition 26 European Countries taking part to the event.
Every year, a special subject matter is chosen, around which activities and events are being organized. The subject matter of this year, “Art and Judaism”, offers an especially wide field of topics to explore different kinds of art, artists, periods and more.
05/07/2010 Reflections on Nelson Mandela. Icon of Peace
With quotations from celebrities such as Kevin Spacey and Kate Moss, as well as working professionals, artists, and kids, Reflections on Nelson Mandela presents a portrait of the Nobel Prize-winning leader’s power to inspire and influence the world. A fashion photographer and native South African, author Antoinette Haselhorst approached a diverse range of individuals for the project, armed with a camera and a single question: “What do you think society, mankind, and humanity can learn from Nelson Mandela’s values and virtues?” The result is a volume of touching photos and poignant reflections, with proceeds from sales going toward the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund: www.nmcf.co.za
23/06/2010 Sacres Music Colloquium XX
Fino al 27 giugno 2010 Duquesne University
Church of the Epiphany
Pennsylvania, USA
The largest and most in-depth teaching conference and retreat on sacred music in the world. Gregorian Chant has been called the most beautiful music this side of Heaven. But as Pope Benedict XVI and the Second Vatican Council have emphasized, it is also integral to Catholic liturgical life and should be heard and experienced with wide participation in every parish. The Church Music Association of America is working to bring about this ideal with its Sacred Music Colloquium.
June 18 - September 12, 2010 Museum of Biblical Art
1865 Broadway at 61st Street
New York, NY USA
This exhibition from the collection of the oldest monastery in Ukraine, the Kyiv-Pecherskaya Lavra (or Monastery of the Caves) will survey the history of Ukrainian icons and their stylistic evolution over the centuries. Ukrainian icons, unlike their Russian counterparts, incorporated noted influences from western art, particularly during the Renaissance and Baroque styles. The blending of East and West in their iconography and style is unique and needs to be better known in the US. Alongside icons the exhibition will display textiles, ceremonial and altar crosses, chalices and other liturgical objects. MOBIA will be the first venue in the United States.
15/06/2010 FIRE - FROM ERACLITO TO TIZIANO FROM PREVIATI TO PLESSI
6 March - 4 July 2010 Palazzo Reale
Piazza Duomo
Milan, Italy
Exhibition postponed until 4 July 2010
Fire is the second event in a four-year project about the four elements (Water, Air, Earth, Fire) developed and implemented by the Foundation DNArt with the Lombardia Region in collaboration with the Municipality of Milan-Culture. The exhibition is an exploration into the symbolic and archetypal roots of the Fire element by comparing them through the exhibition of archaeological, artistic and contemporary works allowing the visitor to follow a thread that come with the growth of our culture from antiquity to present. Among the splendid works selected, all masterpieces, it ranges from ancient Greece to Imperial Rome, from Tiziano to Plessi, from Cranach to Domenichino and from Previati to Burri. The path is divided into 11 thematic sections that highlight the symbolic value of the Fire: Fire creator, Fire in myth, Fire Underground, Rebirth, Fire helpful, Fire community, ancestral Fears, Light of redemption, Light and Darkness, Apocalypse of knowledge, Dis-concealment.
It will start on 18th June the 53rd edition of Spoleto Festival, rich and multiform appointment. An International Festival of culture and entertainment in a cosmopolite region with a great tradition in reception, wich become a point of reference for art, nature and food. Gogo No Eiko opens the Festial with a new japaneese opera by the musician Hans Werner Henze.
[ download allegato ] 01/06/2010 4th Cairo Video Festival - Video Art & Experimental films
Deadline for submission: 15th of June 2010
Medrar for Contemporary Art is a common cultural corporate and philanthropic platform for young emerging artists based in Egypt. It aims to contribute to the motivation of different means of communication, developing experiences and financial support for contemporary praxis on the national, regional and international level. Medrar aims to drive the interest of young emerging artists and provide them with chances of experimentation and accession by encouraging their activities and the intercultural exchange between them globally, as well as creating a space for dialogue between young art critics by producing serial prospectuses and critique researches and providing data base for curatorial based projects. Medrar for Contemporary Art is sending out an open Call for Submission to the Forth Video Festival hosted in Goethe institute Cairo-Downtown. To submit videos as only screening copies in (DVD-PAL or NTSC) format along with a completed application form in a sealed envelope to:
Forth Video Festival - Cairo
Medrar for contemporary art
22 khayrat st. El Sayeda Zeinab
Postal code:11461
[ download allegato ] 29/05/2010 The Soul and the World. Religious art between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries
Monastero di Santa Maria in Valle Via Monastero Maggiore 38
Cividale del Friuli, (UD) Italy
POSTPONED UNTIL 30 SEPTEMBER 2010
The Cividale exhibition will exhibit about sixty pieces of various age and type strictly unpublished: paintings, sculptures and sacred vessels made between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. Among the works from private collections included paintings attributed to Michele di Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio, Andrea Schiavone, Alessandro Magnasco, Johann Carl Loth, Giandomenico Ferretti and Pompeo Batoni. An important exhibition, organized by the City of Cividale and curated by the art historian Roberta Costantini in collaboration with the University of Udine.
[ download allegato ] 28/05/2010 Festarte VideoArt Festival -3rd International Competition 2010
Federculture, a Public Services Federation operating in the sectors of Culture, Tourism, Sports, and Leisure has, among its institutional objectives, the objective of promoting territories through culture. Federculture promotes events and projects in favor of minimizing the gap between diverse realities, providing occasion for comparison and thus a direct dialogue between artists of different nationalities and backgrounds. Festarte, with the theme - INVISIBLE VIOLENCE Private / Public / Social - challenges the artists to investigate on a kind of violence that does not injure the body, that is not visible, that hurts without touching, that dims the mind, deteriorates the existence and the vital force. A competition of Video Art that comprises an exhibition, awards, and subsequent touring shows of selected works in a few principal Italian museums.
Prize money Euro 5.000
Deadline to send the requested Videos and Documentation - Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Maximum length of videos: 8 minutes
Awards night September 15, 2010: At “La pelanda” (MACRO Testaccio) Rome – piazza Orazio Giustiniani 4 New Cultural Area of the Municipality of Rome, managed by MACRO.
With the patronage of: Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Ministro della Gioventù, Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali e della Comunicazione del Comune di Roma, Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali della Provincia di Roma
26 – 28 May 2010 Fondazione Cini
Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore
Venice, Italy
The international conference on Body and Spirit in Writing in the East and the West has been organised with the aim of exploring the relations between the intangibility of thought and its transformation into a visual, written and intelligible matter. This will be done by considering the differences and interactions between various forms of writing and by highlighting the relationship between types of thought and forms of communication in different cultural contexts (especially in Asia and Europe). In this case the conference will begin by looking at writing in its most suggestive material manifestation – calligraphy. In the European tradition, calligraphy makes use of abstract symbols which basically refer to phonetic expression. To a large extent this process is also found in the calligraphy of Islamic and Indian languages. In the Far East, on the other hand, calligraphy takes on a more material aspect, not so much because there is a strong visual component binding the written sign to an object or a concept, but because calligraphy and image are very often merged in both art and literature and especially in painting on religious themes.
The appointment with the Salone returns every year in May at Lingotto. Today, the Salone is the biggest bookshop in Italy and the cultural area of the MediterraneanThe Salone is also a buzzing international festival of culture with a programme of over one thousand conferences, meetings, debates and shows with more than 2,000 speakers and guests over five days. The Salone Internazionale del Libro is organised by the Fondazione per il Libro, la Musica e la Cultura (Foundation for Books, Music and Culture), the Province of Turin and the City of Turin.
15 May 2010 Museums and archeologiacal areas
Italy
For the second year the MiBAC participates to “the Night of the Museums”, the European event with admission free in museums and archaeological areas in evening and night timetable. An occasion that involve the young public to partecipate. A lots of involved places of art will enrich the proposal organizing events as concerts, thematic exhibition and evocative guided tour.
An art and artist's books editions collection belong to Italian and international panorama dedicated to spirituality and anthropology of the Sacred. Many editions are in limited edition.
For purchasing use the shopping cart or ask to: info@artesacracontemporanea.it
BORTOLONI PIAZZETTA TIEPOLO IL '700 VENETO Mattia Bortoloni (San Bellino, 1696 - Milano, 1750) è protagonista di una grande rassegna allestita a Palazzo Roverella di Rovigo, accompagnata dalla pubblicazione di questo volume, che intende riportare all’attenzione del pubblico l’opera di un pittore molto amato quando era in vita, ma dimenticato nei secoli seguenti.
Bortoloni infatti – attivissimo in Veneto, in Lombardia e in Piemonte, richiesto dalla migliore committenza nobile ed ecclesiastica – grazie all’estro e all’ironia delle sue composizioni anti-accademiche, si colloca a buon diritto fra i più raffinati e originali interpreti della pittura veneta del Settecento, tanto da riuscire a laborare al fianco di Giovanbattista Tiepolo, di cui però finì per essere considerato uno dei migliori aiuti: gli studi condotti negli ultimi vent’anni hanno portato finalmente a riscoprire la grandezza del tutto autonoma della sua arte.
Di Bortoloni – di cui si ricorda l’imponente ciclo pittorico per il Santuario di Vicoforte, che con i suoi cinquemila e cinquecento metri quadri di superficie è considerato l’affresco più esteso al mondo – sono proposti quadri, bozzetti e sopratutto teleri, posti in dialogo con una trentina di opere dei più grandi artisti del Settecento veneto: Tiepolo innanzi tutto, quindi Antonio Balestra, che fu maestro di Bortoloni, Sebastiano Ricci, Giambattista Pittoni e Giovan Battista Piazzetta, per citare i più noti. Il catalogo, che accoglie saggi di noti studiosi della materia, si qualifica come testo monografico di riferimento sull’artista.
Curatori:Fabrizio Malachin, Alessia Vedova
Formato:23x28 cm
Pagine:256 con 100 illustrazioni a colori
Silvana editoriale
GEORGES ROUAULT. LA NOTTE DELLA REDENZIONE The catalougue, wich accompaign the exhibition dedicated to the Franch Artist Georges Rouault (1871-1958), is cured by Andrea Dall’Asta, Elena Pontiggia and Michele Tavola, organized by Raccolta Lercaro Foundation intend to reflect on fundamental thematic of his work. It contains a wide selection of its graphical production, here are introduced the greater cycles of the author, from the Miserere to the two series of Cirque, from Réincarnations du Père Ubu to Les Fleurs du mal, until Passion.
Never as in the past century the artistic expression had difficulty to give voice to the Christian faith. For Georges Rouault, one of the protagonists of the European painting of the 1900's, the dimension of faith is, on the contrary, the inspirer source of all its artistic activity.
The art is a vocation, testimony of life, exploration of the mystery.
The catalogue, besides the texts of the curators, comprises a test of
S. E. Mons. Gianfranco Ravasi. Biography of the author and forms of the works are by Chiara Gatti. The bibliographical directory is by Claudia Amato.
GESU' IL CORPO, IL VOLTO NELL'ARTE In occasione dell'ostensione della Sacra Sindone nel duomo di Torino - a dieci anni da quella avvenuta per il Giubileo del 2000 - il volume, edito in concomitanza di una grande mostra alla Venaria Reale, indaga l'interesse che la persona di Gesù, intesa in senso fisico e corporale, ha suscitato nell'arte occidentale.
Attraverso le opere di pittura e scultura che vanno dall'età paleocristiana al barocco e che illustrano la vita del Cristo dal suo concepimento alla resurrezione, viene indagata la centralità che il corpo ha avuto nel pensiero europeo.
Questo tema offre spunti di riflessione sulla modalità in cui il corpo viene rappresentato nella storia dell'arte - dal naturalismo antico alla spiritualizzazione bizantina alla riscoperta della figura umana in età rinascimentale - e sul significato che esso ancora assume nell'esperienza cristiana.
Tra gli autori documentati nelle pagine del catalogo si ricordano Giovanni Bellini, Annibale e Ludovico Carracci, Correggio, Donatello, Giorgione, Lorenzo Lotto, Mantegna, Michelangelo, Rubens e Tintoretto, solo per citarne alcuni. Il catalogo, dal ricco apparato iconografico, accoglie numerosi saggi che affrontano questo tema nelle sue varie declinazioni.
Curatore: Timothy Verdon
Formato: cm 24x28
Pagine:336 di cui 250 con illustrazioni a colori
IMAGES SAINTES MAITRE DENIS, ROUBBLEV ET LES AUTRES The Galerie Nationale Tretiakov of Moscow presents a Martigny in Switzerland the icon of his collections wich is considered the best in the world about the ancient Russian religious art. Text by Irina Lebedeva, Leonard Gianadda, Natalia Cheredega, Valentina Oukhanova, Nadejda Bekeneva and Jean Claude Marcadé.
Coloured catalogue in franch language, cured by Nadejda Bekeneva and Elena Maslova. Editor Fondation Pierre Gianadda pages 168
L'ILLUMINAZIONE DELLO SGUARDO WILLIAM XERRA E DETENUTI DI SAN VITTORE: UN DIALOGO
Sia nelle foto dei detenuti che nelle opere di Xerra, frammenti di vita, brani di storia sono re-interpretati, ri-attualizzati e ri-vissuti. Antiche narrazioni diventano racconti dell'uomo di oggi, si ripresentano ai nostri sguardi e ci interrogano dal passato. A partire dalla loro "rappresentazione", i corsisti di San Vittore e William Xerra hanno gettato una luce sulla loro vita e al tempo stesso hanno offerto un nuovo sguardo sui soggetti interpretati.
Catalogo della mostra a cura di Andrea Dall'Asta S.I. e Gigliola Foschi
Testi di Guido Chiaretti, Andrea Dall'Asta, Gigliola Foschi, Gloria Manzelli, Francesco Tedeschi.
Edito da Galleria San Fedele
LO SPAZIO INQUIETO Fausto Melotti is one of the most original and unmistakable artist of the just passed century. Few people in the “world of the art” have realized this fact, also because Melotti has never had the intention to indulge rhetoricals celebrations or easy commerce.
Coloured illustrated catalogue cured by Micaela Sposito with contributions by Gillo Dorfles, Mario Cossali, Sergio Poggianella.
Alcion Edizioni pages 166
MIRABILI DISINGANNI, LA PROSPETTIVA SPETTACOLARE DI ANDREA POZZO Catalogo della mostra in occasione del 3° centenario della morte dell’artista. L'arte della prospettiva celebrata da Pozzo è al centro della mostra “Mirabili disinganni” realizzata in occasione del terzo centenario della morte dell'artista trentino ospitata presso l'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica di Roma. Circa 200 matrici in rame originali delle illustrazioni del libro del pittore e architetto gesuita, acquisite di recente dall'Istituto, insieme a opere pittore e grafiche provenienti dalle più importanti istituzioni museali di Roma e Firenze che ritraggono i capolavori romani dell'artista e strumenti matematici e di disegno illustrano le capacità tecniche e il processo creativo di questo grande rappresentante del Barocco italiano.
PAESAGGI DI RISURREZIONE Pagine di ferro determinate dalla prospettiva intensa di una Risurrezione, di un percorso attraverso le nebulosità della materia cromatica, e dal raggiungimento di sua forma descritta e ritagliata nella luce; una successione policroma di piani paesaggistici ancora con la forza di muri invalicabili, di piani a cui lo sguardo deve piegarsi per raggiungere uno spazio di libertà, una realtà aperta e luminosa, verso una proiezione di speranza. Il dettaglio della croce racconta. Il grembo della camera oscura a cielo aperto, come una catacomba dell’inabissamento agli inferi del Figlio, è contrastato dalla straordinaria vibrazione di una trasformazione in corso, che emana calore. La fonte della luce è duplice, con alterna accentuazione.
Pagine: 112 Editore Ancora
PIETRO RICCHI (1606 - 1675) "PITTORE ARDENTE, PRONTO E PRESTO". LE TELE DI BARICETTA E LA PITTURA BAROCCA A ROVIGO Pittore “ardente, pronto e presto” – secondo la descrizione di Marco Boschini nella Carta del navegar pitoresco – Pietro Ricchi detto il Lucchese (1606-1675) vanta ormai un significativo catalogo di opere di varia destinazione e di stili diversi, legati alle documentate esperienze maturate dall’artista in molte parti d’Italia e in Francia.
Il ritrovamento nella parrocchiale di Baricetta, frazione di Adria (Rovigo), di due grandi tele provenienti dalla chiesa di San Giovanni di Verdara, note dalle fonti ma inserite tra le opere disperse del pittore, e il loro restauro, hanno offerto l’opportunità di una approfondita lettura critica dei dipinti, affiancata in questo catalogo da un aggiornato studio sulla formazione e la prima attività dell’artista e dalla presentazione delle indagini e delle nuove acquisizioni sulla tecnica del pittore.
L’occasione è stata anche propizia per formulare qualche ulteriore riflessione sulla produzione artistica di Ricchi e per affrontare una rilettura critica della decorazione pittorica della Beata Vergine del Soccorso detta la Rotonda, per cui l’artista nel 1657 realizzò La glorificazione del podestà Bartolomeo Querini, complesso che costituì una straordinaria documentazione visibile in Rovigo della più aggiornata pittura barocca.
Il volume, introdotto da Fabrizio Magani e Vittorio Sgarbi, accoglie i testi di Francesca Baldassarri, Chiara Rigoni, Donata Samadelli e Chiara Scardellato.
Curatore: Donata Samadelli
Formato:23x28 cm
Pagine:96 di cui 30 illustrazioni a colori
Silvana editoriale
WILLIAM XERRA GO UP TO GOLGOTA For a long time in European religiousness and culture it has been practiced the imitatio Christi, the retrace, through the example of the “true God” and “true man”, of all stages of the existence. To carry the cross, to suffer, to be in despair, to fall… The catalogue contains the critical text by Sandro Parmiggiani (A conversation with Xerra) and by Remo Bodei (Cognition of the pain and religious hope)
WLLIAM XERRA GREAT TABLE MILAN POETRY 90 The work entitled “Great table” is a screen on which have been proposed an image, a phrase, approximately sixty famous names from Francesco Leonetti to Milly Scratches, from Corrado Costa to Gillo Dorfles… a lot important because it represents a reflection moment on the visual poetry, always half way between the literature, critic and painting. This document proposes sixty photographies of the event of Xerra, a beautiful test by Lucia Miodini and by Ivo Iori.
Skira Edition
TARSHITO LOVESCAPES The pubblishing of a new book of photographic documentation marks the end point of a cycle of exhibitions which have seen Tarshito's entire artistic production submitted to a severe collective scrutiny.
Photos by Cosmo Laera, Bhavana Agnihotri, Mimmo Attademo, Reiko Hiramatsu, Sunny Photograph, Sarah Vernice Robert Wallis.
Texts by Silvia Godelli, Antonella Pierno e Andrea B. Del Guercio.
THE SACRED CULTURES OF ART The complex iconographical material prepared by Tarshito in recent years and documented in this volume and in four large exhibitions, must be observed and read internally and in relation to two lines of methodological-critical thinking; aesthetic values and cultural morives, they are set, infact, at the basis of the definite structure of a system of artwork in witch the connecting material is characterised by significant moments of intersections and of relationships.
Colored, illustrated catalogue, 96 pages
Published by Claudio Grenzi Editore
THE SAINT ROCCO OF GAETA Recovery, conservation and history of the sixteenth century fresco representing Saint Rocco and scenes of its life. The painting after the detach from the niche of the Nail enter to take part of the rich collections of the Museum Diocesano in Gaeta. The volume by Rossella Vodret and George Leone (in Italian), contains studies, searches, observations and technical notes about the conservative restoration of the fresco, executed by the artistic current of the last Aragonese age of the Reign of Naples.
Published by Mliligraf editions, Formello Rome Italy.
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25,00 €
JORG CHRISTOPH GRUNERT ROUTES OF EXILE Artist catalogue cured by Rolando Alfonso and Antonio Picariello (Italian - English German).
It contains a biography of the artist, the photographies of the artworks (sculptures and installations) and a critical anthology. Jorg C. Grunert, author-dramatist, performer and sculptor is engaged in plans of Intercultural Exchanges and collaborate with the Center Al Jana/Arepa in Beirut, Lebanese.
Edit by Deposito dei Segni Cultural Association, Pescara Italy.
TAKE CARE OF HIM ACCEPTANCE OF PRAISE Exhibition catalogue cured by Gigliola Foschi, Andrea Dall'Asta S.I.
The prisoners of the jail of Saint Vittore, the artists, the photographic language, the topic of the acceptance. A laboratory of digital photography inside of the prison structure between september and November 2008 it has seen the direct involvement of twelve prisoners and some contemporary artists between which Sivio Wolf, Joy Battle, Esther Mathis…
Published by Sesta Opera San Fedele, Fondazione Culturale San Fedele Milano Italy.
Coloured, illustrated catalogue, 98 pages 24x22 cm
VITTORIO BELLINI THE PAIN AFTER Artist catalogue cured by Franco Moro, in double language (italian - english).
Vittorio Bellini, with the show of these recent artworks in the exhibition prepared in Saint Bartolomeo Center, it grants to its creatures very little in order to conciliate them with the world… It contains a biography of the author, the photographies of the artworks (sculptures) and a critical anthology.
Published by Galleria Michelangelo BG Italy.
PASSION PASSIONS Contemporary art to Sacred Mounts
Enrica Borghi, Vittorio Messina, Jan Van Oost (visual art) and Giuseppe Gavazza (music). The contemporary Art places in Sacred Mounts, is discreet host and protagonist of an encounter between artistic expressions of the past and present.
Catalogue cured by Yvette Bernizan
Critical participations of Florent Bex, (Honorary director of MUHKA - Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen), Bruno Corà (director of CAMeC, Center of Modern and Contemporary Art of La Spezia), Gilbert Perlein (director of Mamac, Musée d' Art Moderne ET Art Contemporain de Nice) and Michela Garda, musicologist (University of Cremona).
VERSO LE STELLE Il catalogo "Verso le Stelle" a cura di Fausto Moreschi, ripropone il testo integrale "Altissimi Cantus" di Paolo VI, gli scritti di: Amerigo Barbieri, Carmela e Silvia Perucchetti, Marcello Mazzetti e le opere degli Artisti riuniti in una mostra collettiva a San Zenone all'Arco (BS) promossa da Associazione per l'arte Le Stelle, Centro Culturale il Chiostro, e Centro Mater Divinae Gratiae.
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