Sentiment of Beauty, the 2023-2024 program concludes


It has been a successful 2023-2024 season for the nonprofit Sentiment of Beauty odv, which every year organizes an intensive contemporary art program aimed at schools in the Province of Lucca. Here are this year's results.

It has been a successful 2023-2024 season that of the non-profit organization Sentiment of Beauty odv, which every year organizes an intensive contemporary art program aimed at schools in the Province of Lucca to coincide with the school year, to bring children closer to contemporary art themes through the contribution of experts, artists, journalists, and cultural personalities. This year, the program was titled From landscape to figure and also focused on the theme of landscape in art to continue a path begun in 2021, enriching it with new content and solicitations through meetings and dialogues. The association is already at work with the new program, which will be on the theme of the figure, a classic theme in art history.

The vocation of the Sentiment of Beauty odv association to connect museums, cultural institutions and schools has been pursued by involving various institutions in the area: Licia and Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti Center for Art Studies Foundation, Villa Guinigi National Museum, Magnani Historical Archives of the Pescia Paper Museum, Botanical Garden of Lucca, Pecci Center of Prato putting them in relation with schools Liceo Classico Machiavelli, Polo Fermi-Giorgi, Vallisneri Scientific High School, Liceo Classico Musicale A. Passaglia. Many of the lectures were held in the hall “Vincenzo da Massa Carrara” Complesso di San Micheletto, Lucca, home of the Ragghianti Foundation: the dialogue between artist Stefano Arienti and art historian Luigi Ficacci, the lecture by art historian Cristina Acidini that was followed by a visit to the Natural History Cabinet of the Liceo Classico Niccolò Machiavelli in Lucca, the lecture-concert on Puccini with Fondazione Raggianti director Paolo Bolpagni and pianist Simone Soldati, the lecture by art historianart historian Alessandro Romanini on landscape in contemporary African art, a lecture by art historian Arianna Baldoni on Joseph Beuys, and a lecture by Federico Giannini-art journalist and founder of Finestre sull’arte magazine-on seascapes in the works of Giovanni Fattori and Telemaco Signorini. Thanks to the willingness of director Bolpagni, it was also possible to visit the current exhibitions in the spaces of the Ragghianti Foundation at the end of the lecture.



The lectures held at other venues included the involvement of the Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art in Prato, which had already welcomed the project in previous editions with meetings with “anarchitect” Gianni Pettena and the curator of the Pecci collection Stefano Pezzato, the special guided tour of the Massimo Bartolini exhibition with the artist and curator Luca Cerizza, now protagonists of the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and this year with a guided tour with director Stefano Collicelli Cagol to the collection in its new layout curated by Forma Fantasma.

With art historian Alessandra Belluomini Pucci, they discussed Paesaggio d’autore. Galileo Chini and Giacomo Puccini in Viareggio as part of a lecture at the GAMC Municipal Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Viareggio. The program conducted workshops together with 3 artists. Artist Jaya Cozzani ’s workshop was held for a first part in the spaces of the Villa Guinigi Museum in Lucca and concluded with a final exhibition at the Paper Museum in Pescia. With artist Mario Airò, students delved into theBotanical Garden of Lucca with the workshop Drawing in the World and the final projection of the images in the Casermetta San Regolo on the Urban Walls of Lucca. Finally, the workshop with artist Nicolas Bertoux at the Lazzareschi Foundation was held on the occasion of "Cartacea.

The element that accompanied the program during many of these encounters was water, from Torre del Lago, for Puccini, to the sea of Maremma, from Giovanni Fattori and Telemaco Signorini through the works d Stefano Arienti, to the African coasts; not forgetting how much the sea inspired the Medicea collection and was also fundamental to the workshops of Jaya Cozzani and Mario Airò.

Landscape for Sentiment of Beauty odv is understood as a space to be experienced and interpreted, a cue for artistic exercises and realizations, and a virtual journey through art history. Dropping into the city and provincial reality, the program highlighted the peculiarities of the area from a cultural point of view. The landscape, the environment, the characteristics of the territories, the preservation and enhancement of places as well as the exercise to the gaze, to active perception are today essential themes for all of us but in particular for an education, including civic education, of young people.

Pictured is one of the Sentiment of Beauty workshops.

Sentiment of Beauty, the 2023-2024 program concludes
Sentiment of Beauty, the 2023-2024 program concludes


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