In Liguria, people move to works, not vice versa: "Liguria of the Arts" kicks off

An interesting cultural initiative starts in Liguria that, from June 30 to August 23, 2018, involves the entire region and aims to help everyone, inhabitants and tourists alike, discover the local heritage. The project is titled Liguria of the Arts and sees the artistic direction of Pino Petruzzelli, who declares how the idea was born “from the need and the will to restore value to Beauty and the Territory.” How many times, “traveling around Liguria,” Petruzzelli declares, "have I come across extraordinary works of art unknown to most. Masterpieces enclosed in small churches, in small museums, in small municipalities. The scenic beauty of this region is well known, but the artistic heritage scattered throughout the territory is also of the highest value. Finding oneself wandering around provincial streets and coming across a work by Miró or Bruegel or Parmigianino or Lucio Fontana lets one understand how all around us there is a heritage capable of helping us grow. From every point of view."

The initiative is also interesting because it fits well with the assumption that we need to move people to the works and not move the works of art, which during relocations undergo great risks and are often far from their museums (an unsustainable situation we also wrote about in one of our editorials). Space therefore is given to art, but also to music and literature, with explanations of works of art, concerts and readings, which are interwoven in a composite program that, from Ponente to Levante, from Ventimiglia to Castelnuovo Magra, involves the entire territory. Below is the detailed program (all meetings are free admission).

Saturday, June 30, 9 p.m.
Framura (SP), Church of San Martino
Enrico Barbieri (Framura Turismo) talks about the church of San Martino and the Carolingian Tower
Beatrice Astrua (art history) tells about Bernardo Strozzi’s Madonna del Rosario
Maria Cozzani (violin) and Alaa Alshaer (guitar) perform Nicolò Paganini
Pino Petruzzelli reads Percy Bysshe Shelley, George Gordon Byron, Anna Maria Ortese, Eugenio Montale, Mario Soldati, Claudio Pozzani, Camillo Sbarbaro

Sunday, July 1, 9 p.m.
Monterosso al Mare (SP), Capuchin Convent.
Giacomo Montanari (art historian) talks about the Crucifixion attributed to Anton van Dyck
Maria Cozzani and Alaa Alshaer perform Nicolò Paganini and Fabrizio De Andrè
Pino Petruzzelli reads Eugenio Montale and Alfonso Gatto

Saturday, July 7, 9 p.m.
Chiavari (GE), Sanctuary of Our Lady of Grace
Silvia Stanig (art historian) narrates Luca Cambiaso’s Last Judgment
Yesenia Vicentini (violin) performs Nicolò Paganini
Pino Petruzzelli reads Ernest Hemingway, Antonia Pozzi, Ezra Pound, Franco Mazzi, Vincenzo Cardarelli, Guy de Maupassant, Pino Petruzzelli, Alphonse de Lamartine

Friday, July 13, 9 p.m.
Vado Ligure (SV), Villa Groppallo - Civic Museum “Arturo Martini”
Donatella Ventura (manager of Villa Groppallo) talks about the sculptures of Arturo Martini
Alessandro Barlucchi (clarinet) and Julyo Fortunato (multi-instrumentalist) perform Nicolò Paganini and Luciano Berto
Pino Petruzzelli reads Gina Lagorio, Montesquieu, Camillo Sbarbaro, Dino Campana, Ceccardo Roccatagliata Ceccardi, Giuseppe Mazzini, Eugenio Montale

Saturday, July 14, 9 p.m.
Castelnuovo Magra (SP), Church of Santa Maria Maddalena
Giacomo Montanari (art historian) narrates the Crucifixion by Pieter Brueghel the Younger
Maria Cozzani (violin) and Alaa Alshaer (guitar) perform Nicolò Paganini
Pino Petruzzelli reads Dante Alighieri, Maurizio Maggiani, Giorgio Caproni, Mario Soldati, Eugenio Montale, Manrico Murzi

Sunday, July 15, 9 p.m.
Cogoleto (GE), Oratory of San Lorenzo
Beatrice Astrua (art historian) talks about Gino Grimaldi
The Paganini Sivori Trio, composed of Eliana Calamaro (violin), Debora Tedeschi (viola) and Silvia Groppo (guitar) performs Nicolò Paganini
Pino Petruzzelli reads Edoardo Sanguineti, Liana Millu, Angelo Barile, Anna Maria Ortese, Salvatore Quasimodo, Camillo Sbarbaro, Giorgio Ficara, Francesco Biamonti, Manrico Murzi

Friday, July 20, 9 p.m.
Diano Arentino (IM), Church of San Michele
Riccardo Bonifacio (restorer) talks about the church of San Michele
Giacomo Montanari (art historian) tells about the Polyptych of San Michele by Antonio Brea
Alessandro Barlucchi and Julyo Fortunato perform Nicolò Paganini and Luciano Berio
Pino Petruzzelli reads Vincenzo Cardarelli, Giovanni Boine, Italo Rossi, Edmondo De Amicis, Mario Novaro, Francesco Biamonti, Giuseppe Conte, Camillo Sbarbaro

Saturday, July 21, 9 p.m.
Pigna (IM), Church of San Michele Arcangelo
Valentina Fiore (art historian) talks about the Polyptych of St. Michael by Giovanni Canavesio
Alessandro Barlucchi (clarinet) and Tiziana Canfori (keyboard) perform Nicolò Paganini, Francesco Gnecco, Luciano Berio
Pino Petruzzelli reads Giovanni Boine, Giorgio Caproni, Italo Calvino, Elio Lanteri, Nico Orengo, Salvatore Quasimodo

Tuesday, July 24, 9 p.m.
Avegno (GE), Church of Santa Margherita
Beatrice Astrua (art historian) narrates the Retablo of Testana
Stefano Merighi (clarinet) performs Luciano Berio, Giacomo Biagi
Pino Petruzzelli reads Edoardo Sanguineti, Paul Valéry, Giovanni De Scalzo, Eugenio Montale, Camillo Sbarbaro, Gianni Dagnino, Giorgio Caproni, Antonio Tabucchi, Fiedrich Nietzsche, Giorgio Ficara, Italian Academy of Cuisine

Thursday, July 26, 9 p.m.
Taggia (IM), Convent of San Domenico
Fulvio Cervini and Giacomo Montanari (art historians) talk about Parmigianino’s Adoration of the Magi and Ludovico Brea’s polyptychs
Pino Petruzzelli reads Italo Calvino, Francesco Biamonti, Paul Valéry, Carlo Betocchi, Eugenio Montale

Thursday, August 2, 9 p.m.
Celle Ligure (SV)
Beatrice Astrua (art historian) talks about Perin del Vaga’s Polyptych of St. Michael and Domenico Piola’s altarpiece
Eliano Calamaro performs Nicolò Paganini
Pino Petruzzelli reads Renzo Piano, Camillo Sbarbaro, Angelo Barile, Eugenio Montale, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Edoardo Sanguineti

Friday, August 3, 9 p.m.
Vendone (SV), Parco delle Torri
Silvia Bottaro (art critic) talks about the Rainer Kriester Museum Park and the Museum of the Towers
Letizia Panarello sings Fabrizio De Andrè, Gino Paoli, Felice Cascione, Luigi Tenco
Pino Petruzzelli reads Salvatore Quasimodo, Gabriello Chiabrera, Camillo Sbarbaro, Italo Rossi, Maurizio Pupi Bracali, Francesco Biamonti, Liana Millu

Saturday, August 4, 9 p.m.
Perinaldo (IM), Church of St. Nicholas of Bari
Valentina Fiore (art historian) narrates the Madonna del Suffragio from the school of Guercino
Giacomo Biagi (cello) and Giulia Carlini (transverse flute) perform Antonio Vivaldi, Giacomo Biagi
Pino Petruzzelli reads Francesco Biamonti, Giuseppe Conte, Mario Soldati, Pino Petruzzelli

Tuesday, Aug. 14, 9 p.m.
Ventimiglia, Nervia Archaeological Area.
Giulio Montinari (archaeologist) and Valentina Fiore (art historian) talk about the Archaeological Area of Nervia and the Roman Theater
Roberto Orengo (transverse flute) and Diego Campagna (guitar) perform Nicolò Paganini
Pino Petruzzelli reads Salvatore Quasimodo, Nico Orengo, Camillo Sbarbaro, Francesco Biamonti, Anna Maria Ortese, Tommaso Reggio, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Mario Soldati, Edmondo De Amicis, Giuseppe Conte

Saturday, August 18, 9 p.m.
Sassello (SV), New Perrando Museum Complex
Valentina Fiore (art historian) talks about the works of Joan Miró, Francis Bacon, Mario Schifano, Emilio Scanavino, Claudio Costa
Giacomo Biagi (cello) performs Luciano Berio, Luca Brignole
Pino Petruzzelli reads Paolo Rumiz, Renzo Piano, Sandro Pertini, Chicca Gagliardo, Camillo Sbarbaro, Vincenzo Cardarelli

Thursday, August 23, 9 p.m.
Santa Margherita Ligure (GE), Church of San Lorenzo della Costa
Giacomo Montanari (art historian) talks about the Triptych of St. Andrew of the Flemish school
Giacomo Biagi (cello) performs Giacinto Scelsi
Pino Petruzzelli reads Camillo Sbarbaro, Eugenio Montale, Guy de Maupassant, Ugo Gallo, Antonia Pozzi

In Liguria, people move to works, not vice versa: "Liguria of the Arts" kicks off

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