Tg Cultura, edition of 6 June 2024

We talk about Mattiandi's works, Baravai review, Nocera Jazz Festival and Pompeii

THE DRAWINGS OF ‘UNITED CREATURES OF MATTIANDI’ ON EXHIBITION IN ROME

Sketches and improvised sketches on post-its, loose sheets of paper, newspaper pages. Dreamlike faces and real physiognomies imprinted on every possible support in the frenzy of the working days. This is how Mattiandi’s United Creatures were born, the stage name (in homage to Pazienza) of Mattia Morandi, journalist and expert in institutional communication who until June 21st exhibits his drawings at Palazzo Baldoca Muccioli, in Rome, headquarters of Fabio Mazzeo Architects . Mattiandi’s works inaugurate a cycle of monographic exhibitions of ‘unsuspected creatives’, i.e. non-art professionals.

THE TERNANA BARAVAI EXHIBITION RETURNS FROM 13 JUNE TO 31 AUGUST

From 13 June to 31 August the Terni festival Baravai returns with its Music, Comedy and Letz festival sections. The complete lineup for the 2024 edition, which will liven up the Amphitheater and Gardens of the Umbrian city, presents two queens of the international dancefloor such as HAAi and Elkka on the same evening and the talented artist Bluem, completing the program of the Letz Festival section. For the Baravai Comedy section, however, Sabina Guzzanti and Edoardo Prati join the already announced Marco Travaglio and Valerio Lundini & the Vazzanikki. Kicking off the 2024 season is, however, the sold out of Teenage Dream on June 13th for the Baravai Music section, which sees Matteo Alieno’s live performance added to the opening program at Lo Stato Sociale.

JEREMY PELT AND CHRISTIAN SANDS AT THE NOCERA JAZZ FESTIVAL

The Nocera Jazz Festival is ready to return and confirm itself as one of the most important jazz centers in Campania. From 1st to 25th July, the second edition will be staged at the Castello Courtyard of Parco Fienga, at the Cloister of the Diocesan Curia of the Monastery of Sant’Anna and at the Churchyard of the Church of Sant’Antonio. Among the artists who will perform on the festival stage are the trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, the saxophonist James Brandon Lewis and the pianist Christian Sands, who will bring the new sounds of contemporary jazz to the public.

A NEW BLUE ENVIRONMENT DISCOVERED IN POMPEII

In Pompeii, a new environment excavated in the central area of the ancient city has come to light, painted in blue and interpretable as a sacrarium, or a space dedicated to ritual activities and the conservation of sacred objects. On a blue background, the walls show female figures flanking the niches in the centre, and depicting the four seasons, the Horae, and the allegories of agriculture and sheep-rearing, as indicated by the attributes of the plow and the pedum, a short stick used by shepherds and hunters.