Tg Cultura, edition of 9 May 2024

We talk about Antonello Venditti, miniature art, 'Exposed' and the Festival of Foreign Academies

VENDITTI CELEBRATES 40 YEARS OF ‘CUORE’ WITH THE ‘NIGHT BEFORE THE EXAMS’ TOUR

Antonello Venditti celebrates the 40th anniversary of his album ‘Cuore’ with the ‘Night before exams’ tour event. From ‘Ci would like a friend’ to ‘Piero e Cinzia’, on stages throughout Italy the singer-songwriter with his band will perform the eight masterpieces contained in the album, plus a ninth track, the unreleased ‘Di’ una parole’, version Italian by Say something. The celebrations will officially start on May 19th at the Verona Arena, arriving in Rome on June 18th, 19th and 21st at the Baths of Caracalla. In July, August and September the tour will touch various cities from north to south of the Peninsula, while the grand finale will be in December with five dates in Florence, Bologna, Assago, Turin and finally back to the capital, where the tour will close on 20 December at the Sports Hall. “‘Night before the exams’ is a miracle – said Venditti – I wrote it one morning in one go from the first note to the last. And in the end I found myself dazzled, shocked by what I certainly wrote, but perhaps no, who knows. Something that is inside me, that is above me.”

MILAN, ART IN MINIATURE AT STEAM FACTORY WITH ‘SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL’

It is called ‘Small is Beautiful’, the first international exhibition entirely dedicated to miniature art, which collects the works of 19 international artists and presents them to the general public at the Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan. The exhibition, open from 9 May to 22 September, represents an incredible journey through worlds reduced to the limits of the possible, strong in obsessive attention to detail and rich in poetry. Visitors will be able to discover some of the smallest artworks in the world, measuring just a few millimeters or less, which require the use of powerful magnifying glasses to be well observed and appreciated. It is the curator Serge Victoria who explains the origin of the expression used for the first time in 1973 in the economics book ‘Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered’ by Ernst Friedrich Schumacher to promote a return to a proportionate society to the dimension of the human being, in the face of the gigantism that has become the norm.

AT THE PALAZZO DELLE ESPOSITO DI ROMA THE FESTIVAL OF FOREIGN ACADEMIES

The Festival of Foreign Academies and Cultural Institutes in Rome kicks off, a shared and widespread exhibition project which, starting from the Palazzo Esposizioni, branches out into the urban fabric of the city. The title of this second edition, edited by Lorenzo Benedetti and Francesca Campana, is ‘Expodemic’ and will have as its underlying theme the unpublished story of the close link between the birth and development of modern exhibitions and the history of academies. The fulcrum of the event, which can be visited until 25 August, will be the Palazzo Esposizioni transformed for the occasion into a privileged observatory on the visions and research of foreign artists and scholars who spend a period of residence in Rome every year. The works presented along the route highlight the relationship between research and exhibition and the interaction between the public and the exhibition space. The works, many of which are site specific, were created by 19 artists chosen by the curators from among painters, sculptors, visual artists, poets and writers hosted in foreign cultural institutes in Rome.

THE FIRST EDITION OF EXPOSED, THE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL IN TURIN OF PHOTOGRAPHY

‘Exposed’ is the new international photography festival in Turin, which every year in the month of May will bring temporary exhibitions, a specialized fair, educational activities, meetings, artistic commissions and off-site events to the Piedmontese capital around a theme. Promoted by Piedmontese public and private institutions, the festival was created to strengthen the profound bond between Turin and photography and stimulate reflection on the state of transition of photography. The first edition, which can be visited until 2 June, is entitled ‘New Landscapes – Nuovi Paesaggi’, with a program of over 20 temporary exhibitions in more than 20 locations in the city. From classical to contemporary, cross-media, installation and performative photography, ‘Exposed’ underlines its multidisciplinary and kaleidoscopic nature with different visions, approaches, ideas and projects that make the festival, and consequently the city of Turin, a meeting point inclusive and open to the world.