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Allied artists in memory of the Shoah
January 20 – February 6 2022, Torre Grimaldina
The event dedicated to contemporary art is back this year to keep the memory of the Shoah alive, with international artistic events and contributions, including art, music, theater and poetry, but also debates and meetings with young people.

The artists on display are: Miro Craemer, Roberto Ghezzi, Manuel Felisi, Luisa Mazza, Stefanie Oberneder, Andrea Sanvittore, Francesco Vullo.

Even this year Segrete has to deal with Covid. But the very emergency of the pandemic makes it more necessary than ever to protect and perpetuate those traces of memory that give name and meaning to our artistic and cultural review in memory of the Shoah, now in its fourteenth edition. This is why Secret in 2022 does not stop and relaunches in the name of testimony, a key word that will allow the extensive program to be carried out in full compliance with the anti Covid regulations and at the same time more forcefully reaffirm the inalienable need not to forget and transmit to the younger generations the founding values ​​of our democracy, born on the rubble of the greatest tragedy of the twentieth century. Testimony constitutes proof with an implicit idea of ​​presence, of direct knowledge: this obviously has been valid over time for the entire documentary path on the Shoah and today it is an assumption that will also apply to the audience of Segrete, forcibly restricted, not more just spectators but, in their being, an integral part of the “process”, witnesses, in fact, determining factors of something that exists but risks disappearing.

Saturday 11 December at the FABER art gallery the collective exhibition PRISMA 22 will open, works by Roberto Ghezzi, Valerio Giacone, Manuela Giusto, Koro Ihara, Jacopo Mandich, Keisuke Matsuoka, Giulia Spernazza.
The comparison between different artistic expressions aims to highlight the various cultural facets and make technically and conceptually multifaceted realities intertwine.
The exhibition path moves between painting, installation, sculpture and photography in a harmonious way, highlighting links, interactions and interpretative differences and highlighting the most recent research of the seven artists. A dialogue on the external and internal mutation, a reflection on the change of form and matter, to which nature and beings are subjected.
Characteristic of PRISMA 22 will be its continuous evolution; the set-ups will vary periodically, renewing the installation structures and the interactions between the protagonists throughout the duration of the exhibition.
In the first phase of the exhibition will be exhibited: Naturographies by Roberto Ghezzi, Homo Imago Dei by Valerio Giacone, the photographic series Elements by Manuela Giusto, the projects Wormed, Cycling, Fading by Koro Ihara.

The new series of engravings by Keisuke Matsuoka will also be presented, the opening moment of the Refugees project which will debut in Rome in spring 2022.

The exhibition will be open to the public in compliance with the health regulations in force.

from 11 December 2021 to 26 February 2022

TIMELAND The becoming of the landscape in Roberto Ghezzi, Antonio Massarutto, Massimiliano Pambianco edited by Mara Predicatori, with the patronage of the Municipality of Gubbio and the collaboration of Cozzari Gioielleria and Land.

TIMELAND_ The becoming of the landscape, through the suggestion of contemporary art, wants not only to underline the centrality of the debate on the natural in contemporary time, but to evoke the important role of time in forging the different hermeneutic relationships of destruction and creation between man-nature and landscape. In essence, yet another attempt, unnecessarily ambitious because it is always unsolved – but for this very reason sublime – to question man as everything – and nothing – of Nature.

Gilda Contemporary Art presents Della terra, a personal exhibition by Roberto Ghezzi curated by Cristina Gilda Artese and Elena Isella.
The Milanese gallery located in the heart of the 5 vie district confirms its green vocation with an exhibition project in collaboration with Phoresta Onlus which sees Roberto Ghezzi the first artist to create his own personal project, putting his creativity in relation with the biodiversity forest of Bologna, thanks to which the tunnel has implemented a compensation plan for its CO2 emissions.
The relationship between art and science has changed a lot in recent decades, becoming an alliance. We have overcome the idea that the invention and creativity of one are contrasted by the knowledge and experimental rigor of the other. Especially in recent years, the ecological arts and many branches of science have a common object of interest, study and investigation: climate change.
Roberto Ghezzi’s intense and in-depth journey is a personal and original artistic expression that fits into this context of themes and practices.
Around 2000, Ghezzi started the series of Naturographies, works in which nature “draws” and leaves an impression of itself on the support that the artist makes available. The Naturographies arise from a careful design phase that begins with the analysis of the place and the elements that compose it, the identification of the installation point, the choice of support (cotton, linen, crinoline) and its placement in the material that it will penetrate it (earth, water, mud). After placement, a period of waiting and control is necessary, during which nature acts. Water, earth or rather all the organic and mineral substances that compose them, as well as inorganic ones and animal and plant species, act on the substrate. Months later it is again the artist who works: the extraction of the fabric and the fixing of the deposited substances are the last stages of creation.
The link between visual art and science, in Ghezzi’s work, originates with the definition of the project and continues through the sharing of the results with research institutions and their experts (Arpa – Regional Agency for Environmental Protection, Umbria; CNR – Council National Research Institute, Venice). In particular, the supports and reactions caused by the permanence in water or earth produce useful data for the study of materials and their resistance to external agents. Through direct experimentation in nature, alongside that in the laboratory, the supports installed by the artist provide useful information to better understand the eco-sustainability of materials. They are also indicators that help to define the state of health of the ecosystem in which they are inserted: together with the “classic” scientific methods of sampling and laboratory analysis, the supports can be understood as collection “matrices” that return useful data to define the quality of the waters or lands in which they are located.
Ghezzi thus implemented his creative process in the biodiversity forest of Phoresta Onlus in Bologna and from there canvases emerged that fully restore the environment in which they remained for months. The black earth that imprints the white canvas of the support or from which it emerges with clear signs fully conveys the wildness of that area, its harshness. These surprising results obtained in Bologna and visible in the exhibition, also supported by the design tables, are here flanked by other Naturographies, made by immersing the cotton canvases in the lands of the Casentinesi Forests National Park and those of crinoline in the waters of Lake Trasimeno and in the river. Piave (the latter in the context of A suspended canvas between Art and Science, curated by Elena Cantori and Monica Mazzolini for the Municipality of San Donà di Piave).
Ghezzi says of himself: “I was born in a place where the encounter between art and nature has shaped the landscape for thousands of years”. With these words the artist chooses to introduce himself, a short sentence that has in itself a key to understanding his work and all his research.
In January 2022 a catalog will be presented that tells the exhibition project with texts by Elena Isella, Cristina Gilda Artese and Carlo Manicardi, arsprima edizioni.

PH. CREDIT. Kristina E. Bychkova

The exhibition Naturografie – Uomo Arte Natura is the final result of an artistic and scientific project started in July 2019 whose aim is to ideally unite, through art, the geographical coastal arc of the upper Adriatic between Italy, Slovenia and Croatia.
For this project Roberto Ghezzi has identified, according to the aesthetic, physical, chemical and biological (flora and fauna) characteristics, numerous places in Friuli Venezia Giulia, Veneto, Slovenia and Croatia.
The works are the result of a collaboration between Man and Nature in a different perspective than other forms of art that transform landscape art into landscape art. Nature intervenes by creating and living on a virgin support installed by the artist in the environment.
For the realization of the works Roberto Ghezzi chooses the place of installation and the material of the support (in this case canvases left outdoors at the Mirna River bank) then leaving the completion of the work to time and to Nature itself.
The light, the minerals, the waters and the organisms that live in those waters act on the canvases to create living and always different landscapes. Once recovered, the canvases are stabilized and mounted for display. This is how naturographies © are born from the hand of natural elements and from the mind of man: works that no longer represent the landscape, but are.
In this exhibition Roberto Ghezzi presents the works created in Croatia (on the Istrian peninsula) in 2020, in particular in the nature reserve at the mouth of the Mirna River thanks to the collaboration with the city of Novigrad-Cittanova.
In addition to the artistic value, the naturography © project allows you to map a territory by emphasizing its landscape value and its rich bio diversity through contemporary art.
A new dialogue between art and nature for a different use of the natural places that hosted and fueled the artist’s creations.

The site specific installation by Roberto Ghezzi in the Sala dei Giuristi, in Bergamo, in the context of the I Maestri del Paesaggio Festival, was born from the communion of intentions between his artistic research and the festival’s mission: to enhance the landscape in all its diversity, experience the landscape without intrusions, in a natural dimension to be rediscovered.

For years, Roberto Ghezzi’s work has focused on the a-conflictual encounter between man and nature, in which the artist lends his tools to nature: a canvas, in a non-metaphorical sense, a virgin support prepared by him and installed in the place. chosen for “creation”. Here the artist lets nature “work” over time, with the long times that characterize the natural cycle of things. A dimension in which Man and Environment enter into a profound and original connection.

An unprecedented collaboration in which the landscape leaves its mark on the work through debris carried by water, wind, the impression of the sun and the vegetable pigment, the rubbing of the waters during their passage.

A project that led the artist to travel all over the world, from Alaska to Iceland, South Africa, Norway, Tunisia and Patagonia.

In these journeys, from these encounters, the artist collects seeds, leaves, branches, fragments of the stolen landscape through which the memory of the journey can be reconstructed: small amulets of time and place to re-transport us to elsewhere. The natural materials, collected in different landscapes of Italy and the world, are then stabilized and reassembled inside small cubic plexiglass boxes of 5-10 cm each, showing the GPS coordinates of the collection point on the bottom. .

The site specific installation created by Roberto Ghezzi in the Sala dei Giuristi is made up of the set of about thirty of these works, called “Small worlds”, illuminated with LED lights and placed on a fireproof black fabric: material objects in which nature represents itself without mediation.

Transposing them together in a place, close to each other, to remember journeys and distant lands, is like carrying out a small cosmogony operation: it is generating an imaginary landscape from scratch, ideal and universal, made up of fragments of reality.

The presentation of the exhibition will be on Saturday 11 September at 5.30 pm in the Sala dei Giuristi, Palazzo del Podestà, in Piazza Vecchia. To access you need the green pass and the reservation by Friday at 2.00 pm at this link
https://www.imaestridelpaismi.it/special-project/dettaglio/LANDSCAPE-TALK-00001/?__locale=it

Foto di Mara Predicatori

On Saturday 4 September 2021 at 6.00 pm the exhibition “Naturographies – The landscape of reclamation between art and science” by Roberto Ghezzi will be inaugurated at the Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in San Donà di Piave (VE).

The exhibition is curated by Elena Cantori and Monica Mazzolini and promoted and supported by the Municipality of San Donà di Piave with the collaboration of the Sandonatesi Civic Museums and the organization of Start Cultura and the EContemporary gallery in Trieste.

The exhibition is the continuation of an artistic and scientific project begun in July 2019 whose aim is to ideally unite, through art, the geographical coastal arc of the upper Adriatic between Italy, Slovenia and Croatia. The works are the result of a collaboration between Man and Nature in a different perspective than other forms of art that transforms art in the landscape (Land Art) into landscape art. Nature intervenes by creating and living on a virgin support installed for this purpose by the artist.
The artist has identified, considering their aesthetic, physical, chemical and biological (flora and fauna) characteristics, numerous places in Friuli Venezia Giulia, Veneto, Slovenia and Croatia where he created the installations for the creation of his “naturographies” that “map ”Thus a territory that we want to emphasize for its landscape value and for its rich biodiversity.
A new dialogue between art and nature and a different use of the natural places that hosted and fueled the artist’s creations.

The installations in Italy were made in a stretch of Rio Farneto in the Cacciatore park thanks to the co-organization with the Municipality of Trieste; in the Val Rosandra nature reserve with the patronage of the Municipality of San Dorligo della Valle; in an anthropomorphic area of ​​the Navigable Canal in the industrial area of ​​Trieste thanks to the collaboration of the Eastern Adriatic Port System Authority and the Euronautica 2000 srl company; in the natural reserves of Isola della Cona in collaboration with the Municipality of Staranzano and Canal Novo in collaboration with the Municipality of Marano Lagunare; in the Anfora canal thanks to the collaboration of the Municipality of Aquileia.
In Slovenia they have been hosted in the Val Stagnon di Capodistria nature reserve and in Croatia, in Istria, in the nature reserve at the mouth of the Mirna River in collaboration with the Municipality of Novigrad-Novigrad.
To these, in 2021, were added the installations in Veneto at the Cittanova water pump in collaboration with the Municipality of San Donà di Piave and the Sandonatesi Civic Museums.

The exhibition can be visited at the Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Piazza Indipendenza, 12 in San Donà di Piave from 4 September to 10 October 2021.
The opening hours will be from Tuesday to Saturday 16:00 19:00 Sunday 10:00 12:30 / 16:00 19:00
Access to the exhibition is allowed only upon presentation of the Green Pass and to a maximum number of 30 people at the same time.

A small green island surrounded by the waters of a lake, the Trasimeno, which has seen history pass by on its shores since ancient times. It is the Polvese island, a place close but at the same far away from everyday life, which offers a distant view, an unusual point of view from which ideas can be born to bring into the world of the present to imagine the world of the future.
In this art project, Polvese becomes NEXT ISLAND, in the double meaning of “neighboring island”, but also of “next island”, the island to come.
The artists on display were invited to reflect on the three key concepts of the project: art, environment, future.
Our society has reiterated in a particular way what has already been known for centuries: no human being is an island but lives and finds full development in the shared relational context. The experience lived by all of us during this pandemic has revealed how much the individual reality of each is interconnected with the destinies of others, how much the social network is fundamental to face the challenges that arise before us. Challenges that today are primarily that of the relationship with the natural environment and that of being able to imagine the world to come. These concepts are in turn strongly intertwined: any project on the future of the world and of humanity must take into account the relationship with the environment, questioning our way of being in the world. Thinking about the future means having a vision of the world to come, of the next world, because all our actions take the forms we are capable of imagining.
The exhibition brings together several generations of artists, therefore different approaches, different worldviews, different weltanschauung, because the future is also a conception of life, of the world, and of the position occupied by man in it. The exhibition itinerary presents a composite reality, a pluriverse in which the artists involved bring their worlds, their reflections and investigations, their own vision.
Sculpture, painting, photography and installations compose an imaginative geography in which the works, with the aesthetic and ecstatic power that only art possesses, surprise and confuse, reveal and conceal, whisper and shout, present in new forms “what is known “and they use known forms to bring out” the invisible “. In passing through the rooms of the Ex Monastero on the Polvese island, one also crosses the short circuit between man and the environment that characterizes our time, breathing an air full of visionary power, essential for imagining a future that will recover, in an unprecedented way, the sacred balance between nature and human.
The invited artists are:
Affiliates of Peducci, Edoardo Cialfi, Mario Consiglio, Frank Dituri, Roberto Ghezzi, Mauro Manetti, Massimiliano Poggioni.
The exhibition is promoted and supported by Arpa Umbria and designed by the ART MONSTERS cultural association together with the invited artists.

Water is life, it is energy, it is essential, it is a resource of inestimable value for its peculiar properties and for many uses and virtues that testify its importance for man, even in a simple daily gesture such as preparing pasta. or wash your hair. And it’s not just about man, water is also essential for the environment and all other beings who live on Earth.
WITHOUT WATER THERE IS NO LIFE!
And what has man done with it in the last half century? He wasted it and polluted it.
It is urgent to consider water a “COMMON GOOD” that everyone, without distinction, must protect. The right to water in the world is an international right sanctioned by the United Nations in resolution 64/292 of 2010 which defines “drinking water as essential for the realization of human rights”.
LISTING on the WATER EXCHANGE: NO THANKS. We join the denunciation of the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to water Pedro Arrojo-Agudo who on 11 December 2020 expressed grave concern at the news that water, like any commodity, will be traded in the “futures” market of New York Wall Street Stock Exchange. The beginning of the water price marks a before and after for this indispensable good for life on earth. This is an epochal transition that opens up to speculation by large capital and the marginalization of territories, populations, small farmers and small businesses.
If today water can be listed on the stock exchange it is because it has long been considered a commodity, subject to a logic of profit and privatized management.
To reverse the course once and for all, to secure the water resource and defend the fundamental rights of citizens, we ask every citizen to read the Petition that the Italian Forum of Water Movements has made to the Italian Government by going to visit the website: www.acquabenecomune.org, read it, become aware of it and affirm:
“WATER IN THE BAG NO THANKS”.
Starting from these brief premises, in 2019, I conceived and designed a series of events called “WATER WAYS” and “WATER TRAILS”. The invited artists undertake to report to the public the urgency and importance of the theme, and with their works, to spread understanding and increase awareness.
Each Artist does it with their own typicality, seeking energy and aesthetic potential in the essential value of water to affirm that Art like Water is vital for existence: WITHOUT WATER and WITHOUT ART
COMPANIES DIE.
The project develops as a “work in progress” in different territories and locations and with a medium to long term chronology and is a proposal to create a museum dedicated to water.
The project will be presented in S.Pellegrino Terme (BG), a well-known tourist resort and, since the early 1900s, a well-known spa resort. In addition to being home to the San Pellegrino water plants, exported and known all over the world, the town is considered a historical place of excellence for water.
From 1st to 31st August at the “Villa Funicolare”, seat of the Historical Cultural Center of the Brembana Valley “Felice Riceputi”, under the patronage of the Municipality of S. Pellegrino Terme, the project VIE DELL’AQUA & PERCORSI D’ACQUA will be presented and realized relative exhibition to which artists of national and international fame have been invited to exhibit their works on the theme of water.
The project also provides for the creation of “nature trails” in the area. On each path an artist will be invited to create an installation using local, eco-sustainable materials in harmony with the environment.
The various projects will be exhibited as well as photographic documentation of the routes and their characteristics of flora and fauna.
For the exhibition some important Italian poets will be invited to provide their texts on the theme of water. The texts, later, will be engraved on stone slabs (or other material), which will be placed on routes planned to create the Way called “POETIC OF WATER”.
The installations, the poetic texts together with the works on display, will constitute a first nucleus of the future “VIE D’ACQUA” Museum.
The exhibition will then be hosted in Sermoneta (LT) city of art, at the Church of S. Michele Arcangelo from 23 October to 20 November 2021.
The future intent of the Project is the creation of a chain of localities where water is matter that the body touches, where its vital flow is visible that binds territories, communities, cultures, with the aim of their twinning in which the water is the “vital glue”
We will propose to the Mayors the possibility of “Twinning” between river, lake, spa and sea locations to create and establish a “Chain of Waterways” which has an emblematic solidarity value in the “liquidity” of the routes.

Naturografie © is the final result of an artistic project and scientific research started in July 2019, the aim of which is to ideally unite, through art, the geographical coastal arc of the upper Adriatic between Italy, Slovenia and Croatia. The works are the result of a collaboration between Man and Nature
in a different perspective than other forms of art that transforms art in the landscape (Land Art) into landscape art. Nature intervenes by creating and living on a virgin support installed for this purpose by the artist.
The artist has identified, considering the aesthetic, physical, chemical and biological characteristics (flora and fauna), numerous places in Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Slovenia and Croatia where he created the installations for the creation of his Naturographies © that “map” thus a territory that we want to emphasize for its landscape value and for its rich biodiversity.
A new dialogue between art and nature and a different use of the natural places that hosted and fueled the artist’s creations.
For the realization of these works, Roberto Ghezzi works by choosing the place of the installation and the material of the support (in this case canvases left outdoors on the banks of a body of water or a river) leaving then to time and to Nature itself the completion of the workThe light, minerals, waters and organisms that live in those waters act on those canvases to create living and always different landscapes.
Once recovered, the canvases are stabilized and mounted for display. Thus, from the hand of natural elements and from the mind of man, the Naturographies © are born: works that no longer represent the landscape, but are.
The installations in Italy were made in a stretch of Rio Farneto in the Cacciatore park thanks to the
co-organization with the Municipality of Trieste; in the Val Rosandra nature reserve with the patronage of the Municipality of San Dorligo della Valle; in an anthropomorphic area of ​​the Navigable Canal of the industrial area of ​​Trieste thanks with the collaboration of the Eastern Adriatic Port System Authority and the Euronautica 2000 srl company; in the natural reserves of Isola della Cona in collaboration with the Municipality of Staranzano and Canal Novo in collaboration with the Municipality of Marano Lagunare; in the Anfora canal thanks to the collaboration of the Municipality of Aquileia and finally at the Cittanova drainage pump in San Donà di Piave in collaboration with the Sandonanesi civic museums and the Municipality of San Donà di Piave. In Slovenia they have been hosted in the VaL Stagnon di Capodistria nature reserve and in Croatia, in Istria, in the nature reserve at the mouth of the Mirna River in collaboration with the Municipality of Novigrad-Novigrad.