Marche

Marche is one of the 20 regions of Italy. In English, this region is also known as the Marches.
The name of the region derives from the plural name of marca, originally referring to the medieval March of Ancona and nearby marches of Camerino and Fermo.

The region is located in the Central area of the country, bordered by Emilia-Romagna and the republic of San Marino to the north, Tuscany to the north-west, Umbria to the west, Abruzzo and Lazio to the south and the Adriatic Sea to the east. Except for river valleys and the often very narrow coastal strip, the land is hilly.
A railway from Bologna to Brindisi, built in the 19th century, runs along the coast of the entire territory. Inland, the mountainous nature of the region, even today, allows relatively little travel north and south, except by twisting roads over the passes.

Lombardy

Lombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. A sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about a fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in the region, making it the most populous and richest region in the country and one of the richest in the whole of Europe.
It is also the region with the most Unesco World Heritage Sites in the world.

16th National Chestnut Fair Cuneo

16th National Chestnut Fair Cuneo 16 - 19 october 2014

The National Chestnut Fair stands as one of the most important gastronomic fairs in Italy, a unique window of the excellences and ancient traditions of Cuneo area. A venue where quality is its very symbol, thanks to an attentive selection of exhibitors, becoming an outstanding opportunity for enterprises based locally and beyond.

Liguria

Liguria is bordered by France to the west, Piedmont to the north, and Emilia-Romagna and Tuscany to the east. It lies on the Ligurian Sea. The narrow strip of land is bordered by the sea, the Alps and the Apennines mountains. Some mountains rise above 2000 m; the watershed line runs at an average altitude of about 1000 m.

The winding arched extension goes from Ventimiglia to La Spezia. Of this, 3,524.08 square kilometres (1,360.65 sq mi) are mountainous (65% of the total) and 891.95 square kilometres (344.38 sq mi) are hills (35% of the total). Liguria's natural reserves cover 12% of the entire region, or 60,000 hectares of land. They are made up of one national reserve, six large parks, two smaller parks and three nature reserves.

The continental shelf is very narrow, and so steep it descends almost immediately to considerable marine depths along its 350-km coastline. Except for the Portovenere and Portofino promontories, it is generally not very jagged, and is often high. At the mouths of the biggest watercourses there are small beaches, but there are no deep bays and natural harbours except for those of Genoa and La Spezia.

The ring of hills lying immediately beyond the coast together with the sea account for a mild climate year-round. Average winter temperatures are 7 to 10 °C (45 to 50 °F) and summer temperatures are 23 to 24 °C (73 to 75 °F), which make for a pleasant stay even in the dead of winter. Rainfall can be abundant at times, as mountains very close to the coast create an orographic effect. Genoa and La Spezia can see up to 2,000 mm (79 in) of rain in a year; other areas instead show the normal Mediterranean rainfall of 500 to 800 mm (20 to 31 in) annually.

Future Identities - Bodies . Places . Spaces

After the great success of Future Identities – Bodies . Places . Spaces Festival in Venice at Palazzo Albrizzi (info about the current exposed works here: http://www.lucacurci.com/artexpo/opening-future-identities.htm) we have decided to EXTEND THE EXHIBITION including new selected works from September 12 to September 21, 2014 at Palazzo Albrizzi in Venice.

 

We would like your work to be part of this new selection!

 

Deadline for applications is September 05, 2014. 

 

Future Identities – Bodies . Places . Spaces festival is focused on the relationship between body and space, and the hybridization between identities and cultural/physical/social/urban settings in contemporary time. People, backgrounds, societies, progress, cities and all their inputs create hybrid identities, modifying each other and being mixed in prospect to shape a better world. The festival aims to conduct a research and to offer to artists and audience a 360° experience about the body, conceived not only as a material organic system connected to space, but also as an evolving organism with peculiar sensations, feelings and characteristics.

The event is curated by Arch. Luca Curci (Founder of LUCA CURCI ARCHITECTS and It’s LIQUID Group). The festival’s program will include exhibitions, video art screenings, movies’ projections, live performances and meetings with artists involved.

The number of works you can submit is unlimited and free. The participation in the festival requires an entry fee only for selected works. Participation open to: artists, photographers, video makers, architects and designers, associate groups and studios.

Artists, photographers and video makers are invited to submit photos, video art works, installations and performing art pieces. Architects and designers are invited to take part in the festival submitting their projects through panels, video-architecture works, photos, installations and scale models.

Deadline for applications is September 05, 2014

To take part in the selection, send your works’ submissions with a CV/biography, some still images (for video-art/eperimental films), links of videos/films/performances and pictures of your works via email to lucacurci@lucacurci.com or via mail to:

It’s LIQUID Groupc/o Luca Curci Architects
Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 33
70122 Bari, Italy

The number of works you can submit is unlimited.

 

Future Identities – Bodies . Places . Spaces will be part of MORPHOS program (Venice, June – November 2014). If you want to have a solo exhibition inside MORPHOS program send us your proposal and we will get in touch with you as soon as we can.

 

Palazzo Albrizzi is one of the Venetian aristocracy’s palaces, situated in Cannaregio 4118, near Ca’ D’Oro. Constructed by the famous Capello family, in the 18th century the Palazzo passed into the hands of the Albrizzi family. The palace is the headquarter of ACIT Venezia, one of the most important Italian-German cultural association in collaboration with Goethe Institut, and since 2003 it has collaborated with Biennale in Venice, offering its spaces for National Pavilions or Collateral Events.

Lazio

Lazio comprises a land area of 17,236 km2 (6,655 sq mi) and it has borders with Tuscany, Umbria, and Marche to the north, Abruzzo and Molise to the east, Campania to the south, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west. The region is mainly flat and hilly, with small mountainous areas in the most eastern and southern districts.

The coast of Lazio is mainly composed of sandy beaches, punctuated by the headlands of Circeo (541 m) and Gaeta (171 m). The Pontine Islands, which are part of Lazio, lie opposite the southern coast. Behind the coastal strip, to the north, lies the Maremma Laziale (the continuation of Tuscan Maremma), a costal plain interrupted at Civitavecchia by the Tolfa Mountains (616 m). The central section of the region is occupied by the Roman Campagna, a vast alluvial plain surrounding the city of Rome, with an area of approximately 2,100 km2 (811 sq mi). The southern districts are characterized by the flatlands of Agro Pontino, a once swampy and malarial area, that was reclaimed over the centuries.

The Preapennines of Latium, marked by the Tiber valley and the Liri with the Sacco tributary, include on the right of the Tiber, three groups of mountains of volcanic origin: the Volsini, Cimini and Sabatini, whose largest former craters are occupied by the Bolsena, Vico and Bracciano lakes. To the south of the Tiber, other mountain groups form part of the Preapennines: the Alban Hills, also of volcanic origin, and the calcareous Lepini, Ausoni and Aurunci Mountains. The Apennines of Latium are a continuation of the Apennines of Abruzzo: the Reatini Mountains with Terminillo (2,213 m), Mounts Sabini, Prenestini, Simbruini and Ernici which continue east of the Liri into the Mainarde Mountains. The highest peak is Mount Gorzano (2,458 m) on the border with Abruzzo.

Ludwig Wilding

Witness of the epochal transition from the industrial society to the information one, Ludwig Wilding [Grünstadt, 1927 – Buchholz in der Nordheide, 2010] started producing his Programmierte Strukturbilder at the beginning of the sixties, thus developing a logical-sensorial art based on virtual motion. Ambiguity, indefiniteness and instability were the distinctive characteristics of the researches of that instant of the century; artists as Ludwig Wilding particularly went deep into the debate about apparent movement and stereoscopic vision (made possible by our binocular system which registers two different images and combine them into one, producing the experience of a third dimension).

In this way Wilding's works should be considered as a natural evolution of the traditional relationship between background and foreground. Binocular vision allows, in fact, to achieve the sense of depth thanks to the union of the different images generated in our right and left eyes. During the sixties Wilding managed to develop interference in the form of lines overlapping in the space. The lines were organized in two levels, separate but complementary: the fore part of the work and its background, which end up combined together in the retina. Practically the perceptive synthesis of the frontal level and of the one behind could generate an apparent movement.

Despite the fact that “seeing is knowledge” sometimes senses can deceive us, stimulating illusions or even hallucinations. Wilding's granular elaborations specifically act on optical illusion, proving the fact that art is a wonderful trick. The perceptive oscillation of these works is created by interspaced lines, orthogonal weaves, concave/convex surfaces, transparencies and retreats that analyse the inter-dependence between the artist/researcher and the spectator/receiver, as well as that between the perceiving subject and the perceived object. Because of this relationship, the work does not exist until it's seen; vice verse it stops existing when no more directly perceived.

Moreover it is necessary to have a direct experience of these works because the only way to really appreciate them is alive. It is impossible to understand the immediate passage from a “still form” to a “moving form”, which is the moment when the work of art assume a life of its own, activated by the spectator and induced to mutation by the variation of his own vision.

Considering that kinetic-visual investigations can be divided into two different categories, those concerning deduction and those recurring to induction, the structural gradients of Ludwig Wilding, without doubts, belong to the second case: they are intellectual provocations that act on our retina's photo-receptors.

Art exhibition  at Lissone Museum of Contemporary Art

Future Identities - Bodies . Places . Spaces

International architecture, video art, experimental cinema, photography, installation and performance art festival
Opening: August 23, 2014 at Palazzo Albrizzi


It’s LIQUID Group, in collaboration with International ArtExpo, is proud to announce the opening of Future Identities - Bodies . Places . Spaces, international architecture, video art, experimental cinema, photography, installation and performance art festival. The exhibition, under the patronage of the city of Venice, will be held in Venice in 2 prestigious palaces: Palazzo Albrizzi, from August 23 to September 07 2014, will showcase photography, installation, video-art and architecture works; and Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi, from August 31 to September 02 2014, will host the Venice Experimental Cinema and Performance Art Festival (more info at: http://www.itsliquid.com/opening-venice-cinema-performance-festival.html).


Palazzo Albrizzi will also hosted the international exhibition of photography, video art, installation, architecture and performance art Social Cities - Self Identities, Common Places (August 23 - September 07, 2014) and the solo show Lead with passion of Lebanese artist Viva Eid (August 23 - 30, 2014).

The openings of the events will be on Saturday 23 of August 2014 at Palazzo Albrizzi, starting from 06.00 PM (free entry); and on Sunday 31 of August 2014 at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi, starting from 06.00 PM (free entry).


organizers: It’s LIQUID & International ArtExpo
curator: Luca Curci
project coordinator: Maria Caterina Denora
press office: It’s LIQUID


venues:
- Palazzo Albrizzi, Fondamenta Sant’Andrea Cannaregio 4118, 30121 Venice, Italy
- Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi, Cannaregio 4132, 30121 Venice, Italy

The events are curated by Arch. Luca Curci (Founder of LUCA CURCI ARCHITECTS, International ArtExpo and It’s LIQUID Group). The festival’s program includes exhibitions, video art screenings, movies’ projections, live performances and meetings with artists involved.


Future Identities - Bodies . Places . Spaces festival is focused on the relationship between body and space, and the hybridization between identities and cultural/physical/social/urban settings in contemporary time. People, backgrounds, societies, progress, cities and all their inputs create hybrid identities, modifying each other and being mixed in prospect to shape a better world. The festival aims to conduct a research and to offer to artists and audience a 360° experience about the body, conceived not only as a material organic system connected to space, but also as an evolving organism with peculiar sensations, feelings and characteristics. Future Identities will present an exhibition of photography, installation, video-art and architecture works, with a special opening on August 23, 2014 at Palazzo Albrizzi; and the Venice Experimental Cinema and Performance Art Festival, with meeting with artists, at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi, from August 31 to September 02, 2014.

SOCIAL CITIES – Self Identities, Common Places analyzes the change of social relationship’s dynamics and the new need of real and face-to-face public rapports among people in our contemporary, high-tech and alienating lives. Today new technologies are integrated in our life and permit us to create endless networks of contacts with people from all-over the world, that we will probably never meet in real life. This infinite connections has enriched our lives and our personal identities, but from the other hands has completely modified the way in which we create human connections, creating more distance between them and us. Nowadays contemporary metropolis follow the new need of increasing our opportunities to connect with other people; meanwhile people try to create solid identities and individual personalities out of the sea of social networks.


Palazzo Albrizzi is one of the Venetian aristocracy’s palaces, situated in Cannaregio 4118, near Ca’ D’Oro. Constructed by the famous Capello family, in the 18th century the Palazzo passed into the hands of the Albrizzi family. The palace is the headquarter of ACIT Venezia, one of the most important Italian-German cultural association in collaboration with Goethe Institut, and since 2003 it has collaborated with Biennale in Venice, offering its spaces for National Pavilions or Collateral Events.
Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi is a residential palace dating back to the 16th century which, over the centuries, has been added on to by various noble Venetian families and is one of the most evocative and beautiful palaces in the city of Venice; the Serenissima. Sumptuous and possessing particular charm, Ca’ Zanardi is located in a most peaceful setting and has its own delightful private garden as well as a magnificent terrace full of sun and colour. Ca’ Zanardi is located close to the Ca’ D’Oro, the splendid 15th century gothic palace along the Grand Canal. It is located off the main tourist drag but is still easily reachable by foot, after a two minute walk from the Ca’ D’Oro water bus stop, or by boat using the palazzo’s private pier positioned along the fetching Santa Caterina canal. The refined elegance of the palazzo’s halls and common areas and the delicacy of its original 16th century furnishings create a fascinating setting.

Visitors information: invite your friends and art lovers to the show. MORPHOS Festival is FREE ENTRY.



dates:
- Palazzo Albrizzi, from August 23 to September 07, 2014, from 10.00 AM to 01.00 PM and from 03.00 PM to 06.00 PM
- Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi, from August 31 to September 02, 2014, from 10.00 AM to 01.00 PM and from 03.00 PM to 06.00 PM

Future Identities will be the third event of the festival MORPHOS – Sustainable Empires, organized in Venice in the months between June and November 2014, in the same period of Architecture Biennale.

Friuli Venezia Giulia

Friuli Venezia Giulia is one of the 20 regions of Italy, and one of five autonomous regions with special statute.
The capital is Trieste. It has an area of 7,858 km² and about 1.2 million inhabitants. A natural opening to the sea for many Central European countries, the region is traversed by the major transport routes between the east and west of southern Europe.
It encompasses the historical-geographical region of Friuli and a small portion of the historical region of Venezia Giulia (known in English also as Julian March), each with its own distinct history, traditions and identity.

Emilia Romagna

Emilia Romagna,  is an administrative Region of Northern Italy, comprising the historical regions of Emilia and Romagna. Its capital is Bologna. It has an area of 22,446 km2 (8,666 sq mi), and about 4.4 million inhabitants.

Emilia-Romagna is one of the wealthiest and most developed regions in Europe, with the third highest GDP per capita lin Italy. Bologna, its capital, has one of Italy's highest quality of life indices and advanced social services. Emilia-Romagna is also a cultural and tourist centre, being the home of the University of Bologna, the oldest university in the world, containing Romanesque and Renaissance cities (such as Modena, Parma and Ferrara), being a centre for food and automobile production (home of automotive companies such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, Pagani, De Tomaso and Ducati) and having popular coastal resorts such as Rimini and Riccione.

Nature and History in Reggio Calabria

Projected towards a mediterranean future, Reggio Calabria still preserves all the reassuring lukewarmness of the provincial small town and the attractive charm of the tourist place. The heart of the historical centre in the Corso Garibaldi, with lively squares and smart administrative offices, the magnificent

Theatre and the imposing Cathedral. Walking among boutiques and the liberty style buildings, which are typical of the IX century urban architecture is a pleasant way to know these three kilometres, in the heat of the economie and political city life. A few metres and we are in front of one of the most delightful scene of the world. Landscapes, vegetation, colours, the zagara and bergamot smell: the Mediterranean being of Reggio Calabria shows with a surprising variety of suggestions. The promenade is its perfect synthesis: an apotheosis of palms, ficus, very rare tropical and exotic species, a few metres away from the shore.

Campania

Campania is a region in southern Italy. The region has a population of around 5.8 million people, making it the second-most-populous region of Italy; its total area of 13,590 km2 (5,247 sq mi) makes it the most densely populated region in the country. Located on the Italian Peninsula, with the Mediterranean Sea to the west, it includes the small Phlegraean Islands and Capri for administration as part of the region.

Located on the Italian Peninsula, Campania was colonised by Ancient Greeks and was part of Magna Græcia. During the Roman era, the area maintained a Greco-Roman culture. The capital city of Campania is Naples. Campania is rich in culture, especially in regards to gastronomy, music, architecture, archeological and ancient sites such as Pompeii, Herculaneum, Paestum and Velia. The name of Campania itself is derived from Latin, as the Romans knew the region as Campania felix, which translates into English as "fertile countryside". The rich natural sights of Campania make it highly important in the tourism industry, especially along the Amalfi Coast, Mount Vesuvius and the island of Capri.

Calabria

Calabria, known in antiquity as Bruttium or formerly as Italia, is a region in southern Italy, forming the "toe" of the Italian Peninsula. The capital city of Calabria is Catanzaro. The most populated city and the seat of the Calabrian Regional Council, however, is Reggio.

It is bordered to the north by the region of Basilicata, to the west by the Tyrrhenian Sea, and to the east by the Ionian Sea. The region covers 15,080 km2 (5,822 sq mi) and has a population of just over 2 million. The demonym of Calabria in English is Calabrian.

In ancient times the name Calabria was used to refer to the southern part of Apulia, the peninsula of Salento (also known as the "heel" of Italy).

Basilicata

Basilicata, also known as Lucania, is a region in the south of Italy, bordering on Campania to the west, Apulia (Puglia) to the north and east, and Calabria to the south, having one short southwestern coastline on the Tyrrhenian Sea between Campania in the northwest and Calabria in the southwest, and a longer one to the southeast on the Gulf of Taranto on the Ionian Sea between Calabria in the southwest and Apulia in the northeast.
The region can be thought of as the "instep" of Italy, with Calabria functioning as the "toe" and Apulia the "heel". The region covers about 10,000 km2 and in 2010 had a population slightly under 600,000. The regional capital is Potenza. The region is divided into two provinces: Potenza and Matera.

Apulia

Apulia is a region of Italy in Southern Italy bordering the Adriatic Sea in the east, the Ionian Sea to the southeast, and the Strait of Òtranto and Gulf of Taranto in the south. Its southernmost portion, known as Salento peninsula, forms a high heel on the "boot" of Italy. The region comprises 19,345 square kilometers (7,469 sq mi), and its population is about 4.1 million.
It is bordered by the other Italian regions of Molise to the north, Campania to the west, and Basilicata to the southwest. It neighbors Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece, and Montenegro, across the Adriatic and Ionian Seas, respectively.
The region extends as far north as Monte Gargano. Its capital city is Bari.

Aosta Valley

The Aosta Valley (Italian: Valle d'Aosta (official) or Val d'Aosta (usual), French: Vallée d'Aoste (official) or Val d'Aoste (usual), Arpitan: Val d'Outa) is a mountainous semi-autonomous region in northwestern Italy. It is bordered by Rhône-Alpes, France to the west, Valais, Switzerland to the north and the region of Piedmont to the south and east.

With an area of 3,263 km2 (1,260 sq mi) and a population of about 126,933, it is the smallest, least populous, and least densely populated region of Italy. It is the only Italian region which has no provinces (the province of Aosta was dissolved in 1945). Provincial administrative functions are provided by the regional government. The region is divided into 74 comuni (communes).

Italian and French are both official, though the native population speaks also Valdôtain, a form of Franco-Provençal (Arpitan), as home language. In 2001, 96.01% of the Valdostan population reported knowing Italian, 75.41% French, 55.77% the Valdostan Franco-Provençal patois, and 50.53% all of them.
The regional capital is Aosta.

Abruzzo

Abruzzo  is a region in central Italy, with an area of about 10,763 square kilometres (4,156 sq mi) and a population of about 1.3 million inhabitants. Its western border lies less than 50 miles (80 km) east of Rome. The region, divided into the provinces of L'Aquila, Teramo, Pescara and the Chieti, borders the region of Marche to the north, Lazio to the west and south-west, Molise to the south-east, and the Adriatic Sea to the east. Abruzzo is split into a mountainous area on his western side with the Gran Sasso D'italia, and into a coastal area on his eastern side with the beaches of the Adriatic sea. Geographically it is more of a central than southern region, ISTAT (the Italian statistical authority) considers it part of Southern Italy though, as a vestige of Abruzzo's historic association with the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
Abruzzo boasts the title of Greenest Region in Europe thanks to one third of its territory, the largest in Europe, being set aside as National Parks and protected Nature Reserves. In the region there are indeed three National Parks, one Regional Park and 38 protected Nature Reserves. These ensure the survival of 75% of all Europe's living species and are also home to some rare species, such as the small wading dotterel, golden eagle, Abruzzo chamois, Apennine wolf and Marsican brown bear. Abruzzo is also home of Calderone, the southernmost glacier in Europe.
When the Italian diplomat and journalist Primo Levi visited Abruzzo defined it as “forte e gentile” (strong and gentle) which, he said, best synthesized the beauty of the region and the character of its people. The quote "forte e gentile" has since then become the motto of the region and its inhabitants