Tuscany

Tuscany is known for its landscapes, traditions, history, artistic legacy and its influence on high culture. It is regarded as the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance and has been home to many figures influential in the history of art and science, and contain well-known museums such as the Uffizi and the Pitti Palace. Tuscany produces wines, including Chianti, Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, Morellino di Scansano and Brunello di Montalcino. Having a strong linguistic and cultural identity, it is sometimes considered "a nation within a nation".
Seven Tuscan localities have been designated World Heritage Sites: the historic centre of Florence (1982); the historical centre of Siena (1995); the square of the Cathedral of Pisa (1987); the historical centre of San Gimignano (1990); the historical centre of Pienza (1996); the Val d'Orcia (2004), and Medici Villas and Gardens (2013).
Tuscany has over 120 protected nature reserves, making Tuscany and its capital Florence popular tourist destinations that attract millions of tourists every year.

Sicily

Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea; along with surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy, and it is officially referred to as Regione Siciliana (Sicilian Region).

Sicily is located in the central Mediterranean. It extends from the tip of the Apennine peninsula, from which it is separated only by the narrow Strait of Messina, towards the North African coast. Its most prominent landmark is Mount Etna, which, at 3,350 m (10,990 ft), is the tallest active volcano in Europe and one of the most active in the world. The island has a typical Mediterranean climate.

The earliest archeological evidence of human dwelling on the island dates from as early as 8000 BC. At around 750 BC, Sicily was host to a number of Phoenician and Greek colonies, and for the next 600 years, it was the site of the Greek–Punic and Roman–Punic wars, which ended with the Roman destruction of Carthage. After the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, Sicily frequently changed hands, and during the early Middle Ages, it was ruled in turn by the Vandals, Ostrogoths, Byzantines, Arabs and Normans. Later on, the Kingdom of Sicily lasted between 1130 and 1816, first subordinated to the crowns of Aragon, Spain, and the Holy Roman Empire, and then finally unified under the Bourbons with Naples, as the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Following the Expedition of the Thousand, a Giuseppe Garibaldi-led revolt during the Italian Unification process and a plebiscite, it became part of Italy in 1860. After the birth of the Italian Republic in 1946, Sicily was given special status as an autonomous region.

Sicily has a rich and unique culture, especially with regard to the arts, music, literature, cuisine and architecture. It also holds importance for archeological and ancient sites such as the Necropolis of Pantalica, the Valley of the Temples and Selinunte.

Sardinia

Sardinia is the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (after Sicily and before Cyprus) and an autonomous region of Italy. The nearest land masses are (clockwise from north) the island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Tunisia, the Balearic Islands and Provence. The Tyrrhenian Sea portion of the Mediterranean Sea is directly to the east of Sardinia between the Sardinian east coast and the west coast of the Italian mainland peninsula.

The region has its capital in its largest city, Cagliari, and is divided into eight provinces. All local languages (Sardinian, Sassarese, Gallurese, Catalan Algherese and Tabarchino) enjoy "equal dignity" with Italian each in the concerned territory by a regional law.

Piedmont

Piedmont is one of the 20 regions of Italy. It has an area of 25,402 square kilometres (9,808 sq mi) and a population of about 4.6 million. The capital of Piedmont is Turin.

The main local language is Piedmontese. Occitan is also spoken by a minority in the Occitan Valleys situated in the Provinces of Cuneo and Turin. Franco-Provençal is also spoken by another minority in the alpine heights of the Province of Turin. The name Piedmont comes from medieval Latin Pedemontium or Pedemontis, i.e., ad pedem montium, meaning “at the foot of the mountains” (attested in documents of the end of the 12th century).

Molise

Molise is a region of Southern Italy. Until 1963, it formed part of the region of Abruzzi e Molise, alongside the region of Abruzzo. The split, which did not become effective until 1970, makes Molise the newest region in Italy. The region covers 4,438 square kilometres (1,714 sq mi) (the Aosta Valley is the only smaller region) and has a population of about 300,000.

The region is split into two provinces, named after their respective capitals Isernia and Campobasso. Campobasso also serves as the regional capital.

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.