Ambiente
Always in search of lost time
“Dopo 712 pagine di questo manoscritto – dopo infinite desolazioni per gli sviluppi insondabili in cui ci si deve sprofondare ed esasperanti momenti d’impazienza per l’impossibilità di risalire alla superficie – non si ha nessuna idea di quello di cui si tratta. Che scopo ha tutto questo? Che cosa significa? Dove ci vuole condurre? – […]
Continua a leggereAntonio Saladino The architecture of the mind and ancient time
Antonio Saladino, ceramist, sculptor and painter, (1950 Lamezia Terme Cz), founding member of the Lametina Archaeological Association, subsequently of Magazzini Voltaire (1986) and of the Angelo Savelli Contemporary Art Center in Lamezia Terme (1993), his is a commitment constant in society and above all in the territory to which it belongs. His artistic evolution took […]
Continua a leggereTHE SPARKLING Lisbon
Lisbon, the westernmost capital of Europe, on the banks of the Tagus River, which flows into the Atlantic Ocean and gives it a finis terrae atmosphere. Perhaps from this comes the saudade, a word with a name of untranslatability, which describes a form of nostalgia for the future, for a life that could have been […]
Continua a leggereThe Carso Territory with many faces. From war outpost to cradle for bears and dinosaurs
Too often we take our freedom for granted, but it wasn’t always the case. The last century has taught us that this can be easily repressed, violated and betrayed. But we must not confuse freedom with the conviction that everything is granted, freedom is much closer to a gift and like every gift we must […]
Continua a leggereOrigin and Progress of the Christian religion on the island of Pantelleria
First part of an extensive manuscript that I found during my research in the State Archives of Agrigento. It is a text of great importance, absolutely unpublished, which sheds new light on the history of Pantelleria. I believe I am making an important contribution to the knowledge of the history of the presence of Christianity […]
Continua a leggereYear domini 1734, he reaches Naples CHARLES III
In 1734, after two centuries of subjection as a province of Spain and Austria, Naples became the capital of an independent kingdom under Charles of Bourbon; A long period tormented by wars of succession that saw Spain favored, bringing Carlo di Borbone Farnese to the Neapolitan throne. A ruler with an enlightened reputation came to […]
Continua a leggereFrancesca Antonini LIVES OF ART … IN EVERY GARMENT
Federico Fellini thinking about Rome, the Eternal City, used to say: “Intellectuals, artists, who always live in a state of friction between two different dimensions – reality and fantasy – find here the suitable and liberating thrust of their mental abilities” . So Rome is the ideal platform for fantastic flights (…). And it is […]
Continua a leggereYANGON THE CHARM OF A REMOTE EAST
Yangon is a lively city, the sidewalks are full of people, but also of improvised stalls and markets, the street is the natural extension of the house and shops, as often happens in Southeast Asia. The city was born in the eighteenth century around the Shwedagon pagoda, with the name of Yangon. The British, during […]
Continua a leggereThe beauty of the suburbs
There is a secret beauty in the Italian suburbs, waiting to be discovered. A beauty, not monumental and inconspicuous, which manages to emerge despite the fact that the suburbs have often been built without affection, almost with contempt. It must be sought and pursued: it is made up of people whose eyes sparkle with energy […]
Continua a leggereAlessandro Russo
In the new works by Alessandro Russo there is a lively relationship between painting and urban landscape with the homage to Milan in recent years in continuous evolution, as if to refer to the fervent industrial development of the period in which Boccioni created precisely in Milan, in 1910 – 11, The rising city. The […]
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