They have arrived in Matera, after other Italian stages, the sculptures of Louise Apple the Brazilian artist known for la synthesis of art and environmental sustainability. In the city of Sassi , Ceuropean capital of culture 2019 , twenty o'clock works - "Aion in the Sassi” from the 19 January -s made with materials sought and privilege theimage of the woman. Aion for the Greeks it was the time. An eternal time, ma to be kept with high values. In the sculptures the figure of woman, immanent, And understood as " guardian of the creative principle and godmother of a time betweenscendent and absolute".
Sustainability is the leit reason di Mancient capital of culture. For sure the largest cultural event Italian of 2019. For the setting, for the peculiarities of the less rich region of Italy, for the attractiveness of Matera as a film production locationatographic Italyane and foreign (by Pier Paolo Pasolini, to Mel Gibson) for the suggestions that inspired painters, travellers, exiles. If the anti-fascist Carlo Levi from his confinement in the countries of Lucania, there he left “Christ stopped at Eboli”, symbol of a civilization stopped atthe foothills of gullies and sheep tracks , today we are in full cultural and social evolution. The economic landscape subtraction below what a strong and beautiful one ccommunity, hardworking and tenacious, she deserves. But from 19 January – the day of the inauguration of Matera 2019 – the perspective changes.
Ithe President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella will be here on Saturday 19 January to kick off the long-awaited demonstrations that will last until 20 January 2020. The other day in the rain, hundreds of people lined up to get access passes to the area of San Pietro Caveoso, from where RAI will be broadcast live. The show will be conducted by Gigi Proietti, who began his career in Materamany years ago. In countmporanea was presented on weekend program inaugural . There were all: the Mayor of Matera, Raffaello De Ruggieri, the President of the Matera Basilicata 2019 Foundation, Salvatore Adduce, the General Manager Paolo Verri, the Head of Cabinet of the Prefecture Rosa Correal, the President of the Province of Matera, Pietro Marrese.
In the inaugural ceremony - it has been explained – it will not be only the city that will tell its story, but the Basilicata region and the whole of Europe, through the presence of the respective gangs music that will play in all the streets of Matera. To welcome Mattarella, the Prefecture is distributing the Italian and European Union flags and making the climate more festive right next to the Rione Sassi. Merchants display artistic waxed window decals for the occasion. Si am concluding i screen printing workshop for printing on the fabrics that will become the placemats during the community lunches dedicated to gangs on January 19th. In the historical Lanfranchi Palace will be hosted on laboratory of the Lumen/Social Light project for the creation of “baglight": luminous bags that will be used to illuminate the Sasso Caveoso. By Friday 18 the suggestive will start the setting up of the districts of Matera and the Sassi with installations from the Open Design School.
Then it will be possible to visit the installations of the Matera Alberga project, with contemporary art in the hotels of the Sassi e meet them the artists. There are so many. Aassociations, schools, parishes and public places together with Coldiretti, they will prepare over 5000 dishes of craped, one of the typical meals of Matera, to be distributed to the musicians.
In Sasso Barisano, they will be turned on thousands of candles thanks to Francesco's "Matera Cielo Stellato" project Foschino. In neighbor Sasso Caveoso the visitors they will admire the technological installations of Lumen/Social Light.
The day after the inauguration si opens, instead, l'other big Matera 2019 exhibition, Ars Excavandi ,curated by Pietro Laureano. An itinerary artistic , dedicated to history of underground cities, an example for the future of the planetlinked to the vocation for sustainability. Matera Foundation website 2019, obviously , it provides tutte the indications of the events, which will have performed and effects in all the Municipalities of the Basilicate for the whole year. The staff is thrilled with their unparalleled commitment. The dozens of artists involved, after all,have taken up a challenge with uncertain outcomes in that award dthe 2015. They intend to win it. They're trying hard. They deserve congratulations.
