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.
CAST is a meeting place for those, especially women, looking for a moment of well-being, rest and rediscovery of their own beauty during
the mad rush of everyday life. It is somewhere to meet friends, create new relationships, talk and exchange experiences and share curiosities, stories and projects. A place where taking care of one's outer beauty, through a natural and aesthetic attention, comes from the skill and passion of years.
Why doesn't one think that feeling better about oneself and taking a moment to relax can also be a way to recover his or her inner beauty?
To encourage new experiences and stimulate a fresh kind of insight, for a few weeks, CAST has decided to transform its surroundings into an exhibition space for contemporary sacred art.
Art, which has always gone along with beauty, over the centuries has been portrayed in and enhanced living rooms, palaces and cathedrals.
It has enabled many to imagine somewhere else, reconstruct stories and weave tales. CAST also wants to become a place where new horizons are opened and unique opportunities are offered in order to discover particular and sensational “other” expressions.
Sacred art: an additional challenge no doubt.Why? Because we live in a time often cold and superficial? or Because we expect to see it only in religious places?
CAST believes that even a beauty salon may offer ways and means of making our deepest strings of spirituality resonate and of sharing the feelings, questions and hopes of our being men and women of today.
Chiara Castiglioni - CAST Parrucchieri (Novara)
THE VANGUARDS OF SACRED ART
This exhibition represents, without rhetoric, a quite extraordinary shift from History of Contemporary Art to History of Ancient Art. It is a known fact that the placement of art as visual languages and aesthetic experiences in work places and meeting environments, is a real fact belonging to history, neither only Western nor ancient. As a matter of fact, History ofArt is the outcome of a stable match between work of art and space - from churches to palaces, from universities to hospitals - all the more so since Middle Ages, through the Renaissance, until the neoclassical and the romantic ages. To shift from the general to the specific, this project focusses on the complex expressive crossing of the “sacred” territory. As it is, works of art dealing with the idea of sacred are the output of a meeting between the art culture and the religious cultural heritage, between the creative mind’s sensitivity and the spiritual experience depth, between the interpretative variables involved in the iconographic system fruition and the various steps involved in a theological process of knowledge. Contemporary Sacred Art takes on a responsibility of witnessing and thinking, not escaping but sharing: William Xerra by his use of the word stresses the persistent incisiveness of the image as a formofmiracle leading to Truth. Stefano Pizzi crosses the popular devotion heritage to rediscover its persistent qualities, while Antonio Spanedda photographs the contemporary spiritual quest by following a Good/witness line. Tarshito builds his signs following the ancestral sacred paths,Alberto Gianfreda holds his concept tight so that reading becomes a private action leading to knowledge by themeans of creativity and courage. The blue face of Clara Brasca embraces the perfect synthesis of the ancientmemory of the icon status of expectation and the tension of contemporaneity; the female image loses its perfection in the gold background so as to capture the idea of a collapse - of social time crossing through the cool blue analyticity symbolic of the Virgin Mary, the work of Michelangelo Pistoletto is one of the more important examples of how contemporary intelligence knows how to speak perfectly, to question and to urge an iconographic heritage of two thousand years, with a timeless reversal, and the experience of Christ during his last severe and concentrated moment, into an instance of socialization, friendship and fraternity.
Prof. Andrea B. Del Guercio (Accademia di Belle Arti Brera - Milano)
ANNUNCIO - CLARA BRASCA Clara Brasca è nata a Milano dove vive e lavora. Si è diplomata al Liceo Artistico di Brera e ha conseguito la Laurea in Architettura al Politecnico di Milano. La sua arte è centrata quasi esclusivamente sulla pittura ad olio su lino, secondo le più antiche tecniche a "velatura". I soggetti e i temi dei suoi lavori spaziano dalla figura, al paesaggio, alla natura morta.
Annuncio 1999 olio su tela di lino 45 x 55 cm
MESSAGGERO NOTTURNO - STEFANO PIZZI code: SP04 Stefano Pizzi was born in Pavia in 1955. He studied at Brera Fine Art Academy in Milan, where he currently hold the Chair of Painting. From the end of seventy's he is entertainer of cultural requests, prepares personal exhibitions and was invited to important reviews.
Painter of iconic area - surrealistic, create in his artwork multiple images with the aid of objects found, cultured citations, new and differentiated supports. He realized various icons dedicated to the Saints and Christian Martyrs.
Night Messenger 2010 mixed technique on wallpaper, 30x40 cm
BEFORE SCENE (MULTIPLE) - MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO Michelangelo Pistoletto was born in Biella in 1933. An inquiry into self-portraiture characterizes his early work. In the two-year period 1961-1962 made the first Mirror Paintings, which directly include the viewer and real time in the work, and open up perspective, reversing the Renaissance perspective that had been closed by the twentieth-century avant-gardes. Pistoletto was an animating force and a protagonist of Arte Povera. During the nineties, with Project Art and with the creation in Biella of Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto and the University of Ideas, he brought art into active relation with diverse spheres of society. In 2003 he won the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion for Lifelong Achievement.
Prima scena 2009 acciaio inox supermirror serigrafato 300 esemplari 37,5x45 cm
RELIQUIA - WILLIAM XERRA William Xerra was born in 1937 in Florence, lives and works in Ziano Piacentino. In the 60th started with a series of informal works, then operates between the comics and the mechanical art lapping the territories of the POP Art. In 1967 he lands to the visual poetry thanks to the frequentation of poets and intellectuals of Group “63. Conductor motif of the work of Xerra, will be then the fragment and with this in a position to meaning the path and the memories of the daily experience.
Reliquia 1995, mixed technique on wood, 21x29 cm
HISTORY OF THE SKY - FORMELLE FOR A WAY OF THE CRUCIS Alberto Gianfreda. In these sculptures is the own complexity of the relation between the materials which determine the form of the artwork, it is not ever given a priori. The artist in the constructive process of the work redeems the material giving back to it the dignity of the original matter through the employment of forces, pressure and tension that emerge from the same matter.
Sky History 2004 terracotta enamels and iron cm 20x30x5
THE RIGHT MAN (MULTIPLE) - ANTONIO SPANEDDA HD print of the work “The righ Man” by Antonio Spanedda.
The original artwork was relized by the artist in 2004 and was given at Sacro Volto Church in Milan in 2005.
"..The Right Man is a personal tension, spontaneous and alive, towards the spirituality, the highly felt responsibility, towards the spirit of sacrifice and the gift of himself..."
The right man HD print One and only pulling 2 copies formed 100x125 cm
CHIAMATO... - TARSHITO Tarshito means "thirst for inner knowledge" in Sanskrit: it is the name that the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh gave to his student Nicola Strippoli, in 1979, during the latter’s first journey to India. Born in Corato (Apulia, Southern Italy) in 1952. He uses materials and symbols that belong to ancient traditions and cultures, although his work is committed to the present and aspires to contribute to the future.
Called… 2007 mixed Technique: Indian ink, pastel and leaf gold on made paper by hand cm. 30,0 x 21,5
TI RINGRAZIO... - TARSHITO Tarshito means "thirst for inner knowledge" in Sanskrit: it is the name that the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh gave to his student Nicola Strippoli, in 1979, during the latter’s first journey to India. Born in Corato (Apulia, Southern Italy) in 1952. He uses materials and symbols that belong to ancient traditions and cultures, although his work is committed to the present and aspires to contribute to the future.
I thank to you… 2007 mixed Technique: Indian ink, pastel and leaf gold on made paper by hand cm. 30,0 x 21,5
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