Tg Cultura, edition of 16 May 2024

We talk about 'possible books', photography in Caracalla, art and disability

THE ‘POSSIBLE BOOK’ IN PUGLIA ON THE THEME ‘WHERE IS THE LOVE?’

Summit of authors and excellences of our time in Puglia at the ‘Libro Possible’ 2024. Over 250, among the most illustrious national and international exponents of the various fields of knowledge, sign the pages of the next edition of the Festival, scheduled from 10 to July 13th in Polignano a Mare and from 23rd to 27th in Vieste. In line with the aim of stimulating an increasingly broad and constructive debate that includes the many tourists who flock to Puglia in the summer, the ‘Libro Possible’ has chosen a theme in English for this edition: each guest will intervene by answering the question ‘Where is the love?’ Among this year’s novelties, in June the ‘Libro Possible’ offers a double preview with two lectio magistralis entrusted to Massimo Cacciari and Massimo Recalcati.

ROME, AT THE BATHS OF CARACALLA ‘NARCISO. PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE MIRROR’

‘Narcissus. Mirror photography’ is the title of the photographic exhibition that can be visited in Rome at the Baths of Caracalla from 15 May to 3 November 2024. The themes of the mirror and reflection are recurring in the powerfully evocative work of 35 of the most important international photographers of the 20th and 21st century, including Robert Capa, Cecil Beaton, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Helmut Newton, Ferdinando Scianna and Eve Arnold. “The photographic exhibitions and, more generally, those on the art of our times, at the Baths of Caracalla acquire a very particular charm and suggestion – reflects Daniela Porro, special superintendent of Rome – This thanks to the dialectic with the majestic Roman remains that they give the contemporary a dimension of eternity”.

AT THE TURIN BOOK FAIR THE SURPASSABLE INAIL SPECIAL ‘DETAILS AT THE CENTRE’

‘Art does not generate differences, it enhances them’. These words opened the presentation at the Turin International Book Fair of ‘Particolari al centro’, the special issue attached to the April SuperAbile Inail magazine, which collects ten artistic projects created by people with disabilities. A book of images that talks about transformation, change, rebirth, humanity, love, and respect. A cultural revolution before a social one that looks at the plurality of the human being through the arts: painting, theatre, cinema, dance and photography.

ART AND ACCIDENTS AT WORK, THE STORY OF FLAVIO QUARANTA

‘Art tells the story of an accident at work. A journey through votive offerings, paintings and sculptures’. This is the theme that Flavio Quaranta, Inail inspection official responsible for the Vercelli office, brought to the Inps-Inail space in the Oval Pavilion at the Turin Book Fair. Art and accidents at work have not always interacted harmoniously, explained the expert: “Looking at the paintings – his words – we can take a journey from the Middle Ages to the present day and see that before 1800 the theme of work was always put into second floor. Something has changed since the Industrial Revolution, and in Italy too there has been production linked to the valorisation of work and workers from the point of view of the dignity of human value: man is the main subject of human production and the work begins to be depicted by the artists in the foreground”.