STROLLING AROUND COMO A GREAT SURPRISE WAITS FOR YOU: RIGENERATIO -GIORGIO CELIBERTI

In these last few days Como downtown is very very hot , and crowded with local people and tourists . It is always beautiful walking among its ancient streets and discover its hidden corners, also Como is able to surprise you and to gift you magical emotions when you do not expect it! That’s what happens you if you enter the former Church of San Pietro in Atrio, close to the charming old square of Saint Fedele, San Pietro is an ancient building dating already the late XII century, the glass floor actually shows you its most ancient structure, and now-a- days it is used for art shows mostly. Once that you overstep its big main door you are infused with great ART, with Master Giorgio Celiberti ’s art!!!!

I think that the exhibit RIGENERATIO, on till August 2nd both at San Pietro and at the MAG, Marsiglione Arts Gallery Via Vitani 31, is one of the most beautiful surprises that Como is able to give to all its guests in this period. It lets you feel deep emotions, each painting has a special magic, and expresses the artist’s feelings and yours as well; oil paintings, wooden paintings, frescoes, polychrome terracottas, sculptures, jewellery … more techniques that characterize the wide production of Master Celiberti who is one of the main followers of Emilio Vedova with whom he worked for more years at the beginnig of his long artistic career; but in anycase Master Celiberti has always been able to  keep his own identity,to follow only himself, his attitude and energy without getting influenced by other styles. He took part to Venice Biennale in 1948 when he was only eighteen years old and later he traveled around the world getting in touch with the leading personalities of the Italian and International modern art scene. In 1965 he lived a strong experience when he visited the Nazi concentration camp of Terezin, close to Prague. This deeply marked his sensitive soul and since that moment his later artworks were inspired by the sorrow that he felt when he saw the sketches made by the children that were  exterminated by nazi murderous frenzy, when he rode their short sentences that sounded like tragic poems. Their” hearts “, their souls, became part  of his paintings, sculptures, frescoes…

“One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star” is Nietzsche’s famous maxim, RIGENERATIO is straigth related to it: the tragedy of the poor lager detainted children, took them to comunicate their fears, dreams, hopes, emotions by scratches, marks, graffitis; those images idelebily penetrated Master’s soul and their emotional strength created in him a huge explosion of energy that till that moment was hidden and locked somewhere in his deep heart.

I was very very lucky to meet this important artist but above all a great man, a very pleasant and kind person as we say “a gentleman of the past” . Master Celiberti is humble, simple, honest, true, he speaks you through his sincere and deep eyes, he looks you straight in yours and gives you wisdom, calmness, peace. When I met him I felt all this and much more that I am not able to describe through words, it’s an emotion that I will never forget; I can just say that master Giorgio Celiberti could be such a great artist above all because firts of all he is a great Man, a special person whose emotions are true, deep. God gave him his artistic talent and he was able to grow it and to make of it his life, his way to express his feelings;  each sign, each line, each colour, each technique is a part of his soul that comes out. God gave me the chance to meet him and this is one of the most meaningful gift that I could ever have! Thanks Master Giorgio Celiberti, thanks to my beloved Salvatore !!!

RIGENERATIO GIORGIO CELIBERTI’S SOLO SHOW at San Pietro in Atrio –Como– and at MAG Marsiglione Arts Gallery Via Vitani 31- Como. From 07.02 to 08.02 Open everyday 10.30am-07.30pm on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays till 11.00pm.

 

 

COMO AND THE EUROPEAN MUSEUMS’ NIGHT

On Saturday May 16th the Museums of Como will have an extraordinary night opening from 9.00pm till midnight, free entry, in occasion of the XI edition of the “EUROPEAN MUSEUMS’NIGHT”

A great event to promove Como’s cultural life.

The programm of the Museums’ Night involves the main ones in town such as the Museo Archeologico– Archeological Museum-, Museo Storico– History Museum- with special guided visits linked to the topic of the food and of the diet habits in Como area from the most ancient to the modern ages, interesting workshops fro children as well will be available.

At the Palazzo Volpi Picture Gallery you will discover “ The food in painting” a visit dedicated to the more “Still Lifes” of the rich paintings’ collection, but not only this, you will also be able to visit the exhibit of Francesco Capiaghi, important artist of the XIX century, guided by the curator Mari Angela Previtera; through Capiaghi’s artworks you will admire suggestive views of the town, of the Lake and Brianza during the past centuries.

Instead visiting the Tempio Voltiano you will enter in a deep contact with Alessandro Volta’s scientific world and his battery that he invented in 1799 giving birth to the modern age.

Do not miss this great opportunity! Enjoy yourselves!

 

REBIRTH BY DAVIDE PUMA @ MAG !!!

Davide Puma’s solo show “Rebirth” was successfully opened yesterday evening at the MAG – Marsiglione Art Gallery – in Como!

Davide Puma created twenty new paintings especially for this exhibit in Como which begins the series of Mag’s events linked to the EXPO and its topic.

The complexity of the natural cycle, of the elevation to the divine Creator at enmity with humans’ presence, of nature’s regeneration, are expressed by Davide in a very direct concept about rebirth; he says “ I can do nothing else that sprout up and bloom” “I can not escape growth and rebirth, it is part of me, of us all”,  thought so full of poetry, hope and firm belief,  basis of human evolution of our life.

It is Poetry which gives him inspiration and “food” to represent the contrast between human beings and nature, humans and cosmos, between animal and floral world, the one enters in the other with an organised confusion. You contemplate Davide Puma’s paintings for long time, there is not a one specific point of view, a reason does not exist in his personal depiction, each artwork gives the possibility to each of us to confer to it a different meaning giving us original emotional intensity. His artworks have body and spirit, both with an intense personality.

You can visit this great exhibition feeling deep emotions till May 23rd at Mag Via Vitani 31.

 

Italian Tourist Guides are closed out!!!

On march 28th 2015 I took part to the Tourist Guides’ Flashmob in Milan, my colleaugues of whole Italy and I have been protesting againts the deregulation regarding our job.

Our governement is going to close out Italian Tourist Guides and the Italian cultural heritage.

We want to stop this!!! We can’t accept it!!!

 

 

Como with Earth Hour!

The Tempio Voltiano of Como is an important monument that the town wanted to dedicate to the Alessandro Volta, the Genius who invented the battery in 1799.

On March 28th at 8.30pm all the lights of the Tempio will be switched off in occasion of the Earth Hour, the largest global mobilization promoted by the WWF to involve citizens, companies and institutions in concrete actions to give to the world a sustainable future and meet the challenge of climate change. Since its first editionin 2007, made only in Sidney, the famous hour of darkness has been spreading in every corner of the globe, leaving in complete dark symbolic squares, streets and monuments such as the Colosseum and Navona Square in Rome, Christ the Redeemer in Rio, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the bridge over the Bosphorus in Istanbul, all this to demonstrate against the climate changes.

“We have decided to do the Earth Hour at the Tempio Voltiano because it is a representative monument, Alessandro Volta, in effect,  through the invention of the battery  ” swithched on” the world” ; said Bruno Magatti council member of Como municipality.

Como, the town of the light turns off the Temple dedicated to Alessandro Volta to turn on the future of the whole world!!!

Villa Leoni was exceptionally opened to the public during the last week end in occasion of  “Spring Days”, many persons had the possibility to discover this unique jewel of the Rationalism.

Villa Leoni is situated on the western side of Lake Como, close to the Strada Regina. The villa dominates the basin of the Comacina Island and the neighbouring complex of Saint Maria Maddalena of Ospitaletto and its famous bell tower. The villa, commissioned to the architect Pietro Lingeri by Raffaele Leoni and his wife Diana Peduzzi, was built for the family Leoni Malacrida, manufacturers in the confectionery field, who settled their summer residence right by the shore of Lake Como. Projected in the same years of the artists’ houses on the Comacina Island, Villa Leoni represents for Pietro Lingeri an other step in the study of a rational and mediterranean architecture, which is the common feature of the italian architecture between the two World Wars. In 1941 Alberto Sartoris described Villa Leoni in the first edition of the Encyclopédie de l’architecure nouvelle”, to attest the rationalism vocation to be mediator between abstraction and nature. Commissioned in 1938, Villa Leoni was built between 1941 and 1944, the years of Rationalism. The latest renovations have restored the villa to its original grandeur, and it has been classified as an historic place, under the protective provisions of the Italian Ministry of Culture. Today Villa Leoni takes part to a territorial valorization programme, to make a rare example of rational architecture known by professionists and tourists.