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EARTH FIRE WATER Three artists tell their stories through the elements Terra Fuoco Acqua

The Genius Loci

Caterina Pacenti

Demetria Verduci

Italy is not just a country with an amazing historical, artistic and landscape. It is also a crossroads of history, traditions and local cultures.....................

Experiences outside the traditional tours, which often remain hidden to most people, but that would allow curious travelers visiting our country and our area to get in touch more directly with the "spirit" of the place. For example, venturing to explore the Via Francigena, traditional inns, or walking around in search of the craftsmen.

Cultural tourism in all respects so that you not only have the opportunity to know the area but to live it, getting in touch with his people, with the feelings it evokes, in a few words to capture the genius loci.

The genius loci is a supernatural entity linked to a place and an object of worship in the Roman religion. This association between Genius and physical place, perhaps originated from assimilation of Genius with the Lares from the age of Augustus.

According to Servius, in fact, nullus locus sine Genius (no place is without a Genius) (Commentary on the Aeneid, 5, 95).......................

In modern times, the genius loci has become an expression adopted in the architecture to locate a phenomenological approach to the study of the interaction of place and identity.

The expression of the genius loci aim is to identify the set of sociocultural, architectural, language, habits that characterize a place, an environment, a city. A term so c ro s s , w h i c h a f f e c t s t h e characteristics of an environment interlaced with the man with whom he lives and habits of this environment. Usually indicates the "character" of a place.

(Wikipedia) The Genius Loci is a marvelous mystery, but we need to find the courage and the ability to penetrate and reveal it, making it decoded for contemporary Italian, but also for those who are not Italian. It becomes important to clarify what is in the quality, taste, and symbols of Made in Italy and of Chiantishire, in the products and experiences. But there is another crucial point on which we must reflect. The Genius Loci is not an entity historically determined and unchangeable. It is a character that evolves, adapts, intercepting new wants and needs in the socio-

cultural change. That in the Renaissance is obviously very different from that of economic boom in the'60 . Warning, this entity is, and can only be contemporary. Should be able to evolve and adapt practices, not betraying the roots so that they are interpreters of the new.

It is possible to investigate and promote the genius loci? The journey that, as the association La Macina di San Cresci we have undertaken with the project "Slow Movie Contest" tries to give an answer to these challenging questions through an exploration of niche activities, traditional crafts, historic memories of older farmers. Discovering, for example, a new form of marketing planning, such as short films that tell the local genius. Let us not forget that our country is made up of experiences to explain and solicit as unusual events, the new means of communication, and even better through eyes young and "non-stereotypical"; our territory cannot only be a place where it is comfortable back like a comfortable slipper.

It must be an area that is renewed without the risk of repetition.

Films and television programs can become a strong element of the construction of identity of a place, a city or a region. The realization of an event is, indeed, one of the tools which are increasingly being used to animate an area, making it more appealing to a policy of cultural reorientation of the context.

Basically, the interest for an area can be driven by transforming the area in question in a product destination. In this sense the term "attractiveness cinematogrphic" may be understood as a parameter to assess the force of attraction that the treated area exerts on the potential tourist.........................

Nowadays, visual media seem to be able to generate a wait and an attraction that cause people to travel to.

What we are planning to promote the dissemination of the project? .......................?

There are three main lines of action...................

Through the presentation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will be contacted approximately 90 Italian Cultural Institutes. A member of our team will establish a direct relationship in

order to create targeted events in different cities, focusing on all the places to tourist vocation.

Widespread dissemination, also in the world, will be implemented by identifying and interacting with Clubs, , Associations oriented cultural tourism, trade associations, automobile clubs, Motorcycle Club, in order to promote and organize events with the screening of the short of Slow Movie Contest . With the same methodology will be identified cinema club. The survey is to ensure the screening of the movie; for that , a person will operate through the internet constantly and methodology aimed at markets; the communications will not be trough search hunt, but trough the dialogues and direct correspondences.

SLOW MOVIE DOWN IN THE S Q U A R E !

Is well known that our area is frequented by many tourists from all over the world and from different cultural backgrounds: some are attracted to the outlet, other museums, and others to traditional trattorias and wine bars. We'll try to catch the attention of those who enjoy the slandscapes, culture and the intrinsic characteristics of the territory.........................

Generally the permanence of a tourist varies between 3 and 6 days....................

So SLOW MOVIE take to the streets, two young people with free time in the summer evenings, a digital display of good size, a laptop computer.

On summer evenings, in the streets of our country and why not? Also Piazzale Michelangelo and Piazza del Campo, will screen short films of contest about Chianti . ................... .

The screenings will be ongoing, specifically in relation to the turnover of tourists and will be traveling from the major centers of tourist attraction, Florence and Siena, at small villages as the Volpaia in Radda in Chianti or Cerbaia in San Casciano, and so on.................... .

What better advertising spread the word and the short films?

Tourist destinations "successful" offer visitors something unique because they create a sense of place, an identity different from other places.

The exhibition "Terra Fuoco Acqua" comes from the will and openness to discussion and dialogue between the artists and their enthusiasm for art. For several years Alfredo Correani knows Jillian Bonahoom and by their mutual esteem, during the last sojourning of the American artist at La Macina di San Cresci last July, comes the idea of a possible combination, confrontation and dialogue between their languages through an exhibition. Marcello Guasti is definitely a personality and an artist with whom to meet and compete, even in the name of his long and distinguished career, is always something positive and valuable. ...........................................

This exhibition is an example - in contrast with the contemporary world that sees so many artists not recognize in comparison with the others an opportunity for growth and enrichment - instead how, through modesty and curiosity, it is possible to create a dialogue constructive among the artists, their languages and works.Each of the three protagonists is here associated with an element - earth, fire, water - significant of a their artistic period or constant source of inspiration in their art, thought and life. Feature that joins Alfredo, Jillian and Marcello, is undoubtedly a strong focus on nature and its formal values, ideals and substantial...........................................

This event, however, wants first of all to introduce the three individual personalities in their specificity and particularity, leaving the artists themselves, to tell more in their capacity spontaneous, truthful, and directly, through their stories, thoughts and words, and especially through the works that will be exhibited at the Macina di San Cresci, in the beautiful natural setting of the autumn hills of Chianti, from 6 to 8 December 2014.

6 - 7 - 8 December 2014 PROGRAM Saturday December 6 4pm OPENING Tv report of Toscana TV

by Fabrizio Borghini 6.30pm Screening of winning short films of 1° Edition Slow Movie Contest: “Arts and Crafts in Chianti” Sunday December 7 4pm - 8pm 5pm Skype link from Washington DC With the artist Jillian Bonahoom 6.30pm Screening short film “Il maestro Marcello Guasti Monday December 8 4pm - 8pm 6.30pm Screening short film “10 Piccole storie” Surreal stories of an American artist in love with Chianti Con il patrocinio del Comune di Greve in Chianti La Macina di San Cresci Pieve di San Cresci 1 50022 Greve in Chianti (FI) Tel. 055 8544793 www.chianticom.com Residence for artists

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Interview with Alfredo Correani There was a time when you realized that you could not abstain from paint?.....................................?

Actually yes, there was a very special moment in which I realized that painting was a necessity for me. This happened in the period during which I was in the military service in Livorno, since we lived in a world completely different from what had been until then, for four months I have not touched a brush, a pencil, and then one day I had a great desire to paint, on leave I went to buy the colors, the canvas, and in the dorm, I started to paint with the attention and curiosity of all comrades. It was a very beautiful and meaningful moment, I knew that the painting was part of my life; I could not abstain from paint . ............................................................ .

There is an image of your childhood memories associated to painting or drawing ? . ...............................................?

Yes, when I was in elementary school I had drawn on a sheet of a notebook an autumn leaf with all its colors, but since oil paints were then passed all below on a sheet of notebook, but I was left with this beautiful image.

LA MATERIA

Drawings or make sketches before painting? Then you unpacked them or keep them all?..........................................................?

The design is the basis to make a good painting, if there is a not a good design personally I cannot make a beautiful painting. First I must sketch or draw and after hand over on the canvas.

Then I keep all the designs, not throw them..............................

You have been called a "man of the earth," What is for you the earth and it is possible to say that in painting you privilege this item?

Land is the basis of life, working the land is a great wonder when this sprouting seedlings, which then also give us to live. Place the feet on the ground gives me a feeling of power, I feel the power of nature. The earth is one thing that never ceases to amaze me, I find it a staple and wonderful element. Unknowingly in my paintings all this is clear and hence the preponderance of the earth than to heaven.

Alfredo Correani He studied at the Art Institute of Porta Romana in the sixties, student of Professor Renzo Grazzini by whom captures the magic of colors which then will represent: purple, green and ocher. His works are full of meaning human and artistic. Forms tormented, insistent and twisted of the grapvine take a deeper meaning in the imagination of the artist's representation and understanding of man, along the path winding and complex of his existence. The skies are so marginal and horizons high, relative to the Earth, which becomes the main part r and featuring the works of Alfredo, which no doubt has linked his thought and his life, so visceral, the latter element.

T h e h u m a n f i g u re h a s s p a c e i n y o u r p a i n t i n g s ?

Although in my work I do not have great figures but I have hundreds of drawings of human figures and nudes. By attending the Academy of Nude and some private courses, I really gave vent to all my desires to paint the human body. Pictorially, however, I feel more attracted to the landscape. Many times I observe for hours the landscape in front of me, I find that the campaign is a wonderful thing, for me is mainly a sense of peace, beauty, something that nature has given us. And looking at the scenery I think: I have to do this, this moment have to stop, like a photograph, because now has a poetry all its own that will not be repeated. The figure, the human body is beautiful but you can always find it and for me it is not as challenging to make a landscape.

You're a man of the earth, you have been attracted to the shape of the earth? Have you ever thought to sculpt or try to sculpt?

When I was studying at theArt Institute, the sculpture was one of the areas in which I did better because touch, kneading, to have the matter in the hands and pull something out of there, were wonderful feelings. It is a work to which I would have liked and would love to spend more time, I made some small things but for reasons of time and space, painting is more accessible and less problem for me.

They were also the 'family needs to make me prefer the painting to sculpture. The first 30 years I was at home with my parents, they had me satisfied allowing me to study at the Art Institute, but they were two workers, poor people, who came from the land too, and that seeing these works - it was the graphics, took pieces of paper were stuck - they could not understand. So it was already so that I could afford to paint and, as it always did, then I had to put everything away because the house did not have to do anything. So automatically at that time I had not been possible to sculpt really, until I got back to my house, and there I took my first work in clay, which gave me so much satisfaction. Then I made small sculptures of stone and mosaics. Working the matter was a nice experience.

What do you think makes artist a woman or a man?

I believe that at the base there must be something inside you, which then grows and develops over time, but that, however, I think there's already inside you. I believe that learning is important and for me it was studying at the Art Institute, however, I realized that in addition to the study, if you do not have within you that little bit more, well, there's nothing to do, it necessary this to make art..........................

What does art mean to you?.....................................................?

Art is an important aspect of my life, I've always brought with her and feel like something to transmit, communicate and pass, I do not know but I hope my son one day take this into account. I do not know if I do my painting well or bad, but it is important for me to keep track of me, of my passage on earth...........................................

What is the person you think better understand your art?

I have my son who always criticizes me, but when he comes to see my exhibitions he is very attentive and happy with the work that I do, even if he does not show it; I noticed it and i gratifies me very much..............................................

What a critic has never written about you or your art and you wanted instead to write and tell of you?..................................

Rather than take away something, they always tell something more about me, they understand me , in some way, made me aware of certain things inside me and put in my work, but on which I had never paid attention, I never questioned.

Jillian Bonahoom Born in Detroit, MI. She received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies and a Master to 'American University, DC She is painter and art teacher inArlington, Virginia, where she currently lives.

Since 2009, is a regular artist-in-residence at La Macina di San Cresci. Her works have been exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions and are in private collections in the US and public collections here in Italy; the City of Greve in Chianti has acquired among others her painting "Flower Festival" ;every year it is reproduced on the poster of the same festival in May.

Interview semiserious with Jillian Bonahoom The world of your paintings is made up of many colors and humanity. It affects the way in which you return the reality in your paintings: an interpretation I would say harmonious, in the colors and basic shapes, but mostly devoid of dismay that characterizes so much of today's art, deeply connected to the anxieties of our present world. Why did you choose this way so serene representation? It has to do with your personality? Or is it just a kind of catharsis from the ugliness of reality?

There is no doubt plenty of anxieties and ugliness in our present world. I choose to focus on the beauty. I do have a more positive personality, but the main reason is that I live with these paintings for an extended period of time. I focus on every square inch. The colors and compositions are in my mind for months.

Why dedicate that much of my time and energy to ugliness and dismay? I guess I'd rather spend that time surroundingmyself with the beautiful and harmonious parts of humanity and our natural world.

If we were to introduce you as an artist in 3words we should say...

Expressive vibrant painter

You paint, but you could have been an actress of theater and I would see good in a film by Federico Fellini.What is the best memory that your mom has about you as a child?

My mom remembers that I always had to touch things to investigate the texture or depth of the material. She remembers me painting my face with chocolate ice cream at age 3.

The artist or artists that you like? Why? Recently, I have been looking at and admiring the artwork of Xenia Hausner and Andre Derain. Both for IL TEMA their unconventional use of color and theatricality of their subject matter.Hausner creates very large The last movie you saw and the last book you read. paintings of actors/props that reference the stage and set design. Derain, most famous for his fauve-style The last movie I saw was Chef, written and directed by Jon Favreau. The last book I read was We Are Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler. paintings, uses expressive color in both portraiture and landscape.

You are a painter and teaches art at a school.Tell us in brief a particular episode of your life as an artist or your experience as a teacher.

I jokingly say that unemployment breeds creativity. There was a brief time in my life that I was unemployed between student teaching and grad school. I was lost I loved teaching, but couldn't find a job. I also wasn't ready for grad school. So, I gathered my savings, and applied to La Macina di San Cresci. I had never been out of the country for an extended period of time, but packed my bags and left for 5 months. La Macina helped me realize myself as a painter and allowed me to develop my work. I think that was the most important time in my painting history.

HANNO DETTO

A time machine takes you to the'500, still here in Tuscany. You're walking with your air curious about what surrounds you. A man walks behind you; he is intent on making sketches in his notebook and carelessly bumps into you. He is Leonardo da Vinci. What did you say?

Hmmm. . . I would probably invite myself over to watch him in his studio. I love to watch artists at work, and he would be so fascinating to watch.

You are an artist and also a gourmet.As you know for Italians the food is an art. In your opinion, what kind of art are the marshmallows?

Marshmallows are a beautiful, simple art. They master the chewiness, lightness, and bounciness to One time you said, "I like to paint on canvas bigger than me." Today painting especially the figurative is mimic eating a sugary cloud! considered a more traditional technique. Installations, video art, performance art are forms more You have a magic wand for a moment. What do you do? trendy. What do you think of contemporary art?

I enjoy all types of contemporary art including installation and performance. Though I identify mostly I would poof myself to Greve, of course! with the history and tradition of oil painting, I am curious to see how artists are working and what form art is taking.

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Marcello Guasti He graduated in Graphic Arts at the Art Institute of Florence where he will return in the role of teacher.

As the title of the monograph dedicated to Marcello, "Between nature and geometry", the artist lives the art swinging and doing live and communicate the two things. The nature is made up of the four elements that often return protagonists of his works and the geometry seems to represent "the landing" of a search for the essential and meaning................................................................................

His first important monument starring the Fire; the flame that pierces the pliers to represent the struggle between good and evil. In fact rich in symbolism, references, allegories are his works, especially those destined to public places, squares, monuments to celebrate the sacrifice of death, the work of man, peace, nature that gives us life and other values and insights, warnings for man and society.

Interview with Marcello Guasti Was born before Marcello or drawing is like asking if it came first the chicken or the egg, what answer me when I say that perhaps your attitude and passion for drawing are born with you?

I tell you that before born the drawing because I know that my mother felt little itchs in her body and was I who drew already . ............................................................................ .

We know you do a lot of drawings and sketches, then throw them or keep them all?

What is for you the drawing? ....................................................................................?

I have notebooks that I always carry with me, they are my cigarettes, in the sense that I do not smoke and those give me this outburst. I always design even if I am in the midst of the people, if I want to draw, drawing. On notebooks jot down many elements at start very instinctive and automatic, and then I work on and become drawings enough complete. Let's say I've made about 25,000, then choose and put them on the cardboards that I keep and then what I'm most interested,I develop or as drawing or as a sculpture.

In your biography it connects your aptitude for manipulation with your childhood spent in the bakery, what is for you the bread? .........................................................................................?

It is a question to be $ 100,000. The bread I would say almost a God, because I come from a family of bakers, my mother was a baker, my brother Luciano was a baker, we were twins, but we not look like, he was much nicer than me. Then I was a boy I always had hands-on, in the evening my brother went to bed early and sent me to do the yeast, I remember that I was sleeping on top of the bakery and around four felt in the smell of bread. So for me the bread is beautiful, has great significance, a meaning of life, joy, not only because it feeds, but precisely because it is an "object" old who did survive humanity. Yes, the bread I feel it essential................................................................................................................

What are your memories of the Arno?................................................................................................?

As a young man I was always on the Arno river , I bathed, the water was a bit cleaner, and there the ones that fascinated me most were the figures of sand diggers, these bronzes that moved with a slow pace but still clocked in pull up the sand from the bottom of the river. By the time they have been supplanted by the dredgers, electricity, so now these workers are no more inArno andArno lost a little 'its charm.

What the nature is for you?....................................................................................................?

For me it is all, I look at all of the nature, when is spring I look at the buds that bloom, I look at the mountains bare or rich vegetation, trees, all but a tree which is called ailanthus, comes from far away, and was carried by a naturalist in Europe. All that is in nature is sacred to me, the only one that if I had a hacksaw in my hand , I would saw this tree because it stinks, is weed and has nothing to do with our nature in Tuscany and in Europe; has symmetrical leaves, I do not like, the smell is unbearable, it's unnecessary and makes the huge bunches of seeds . ....................................... .

A s M a rc e l l o b o r n s c u l p t o r ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?

I started out as a painter, I have several paintings of the period of renaioli and in that time I had the craze to conquer the Renaissance techniques, I also did the paintings in egg tempera, then it was very difficult so I went back to oil. The sculpture was created by painting, painting these forms I suggested forms related to the third dimension so the first sculpture was created by the drawings and shapes that were already made in the engravings and paintings.

What is the shape in the sculpture more and more you feel your own, more complete, more meaningful?

A beautiful woman, whole, do not throw anything away, the best part for me has always been the thighs, which are motorways and sometimes you also runs over 200 per hour. Joke, but now, at this time, the shape is always born of intuitive forms, from these little sketches I do on notebooks, is not linked to natural forms but in psychic forms...................................................................................

Excellence of the area: Fonderia d’Arte Del Giudice Leonardo For over three generations, the Del Giudice Leonardo Art Foundry has handed down from father to son the ancient technique of lost wax casting.

Even today the workshop look like an ancient shop, where works result from a magical series of shapes, materials and colors. Even though the foundry keeps the typical flavor of an artistic renaissance forge, where artists meet, create and share their ideas, it make use of the latest technological solutions.

The forty years' experience in the casting techniques leads to masterful fusions of contemporary, classic and modern works of various dimensions made of bronze, brass and aluminium. The Del Giudice art foundry follow the global development of each project, from the initial sketch to the finished work, thanks to a team of skilled modelers, processors, wax sculptors and finishers.

As a result of the cooperation with sculptors, several works become part of private collections, galleries or public places throughout Europe.

If for some reason you had to destroy all your works, and you could save only one, which would you save and why?................................................................?

I would save all, all the works have their own meaning, their value to be there, but if I were to choose, I would save the monument to fallen policemen in Fiesole, is the first and perhaps remained the best.

What is for you the fire? ............................................................................?

The fire is related to nature, is the fire that destroys, is the symbol of strength, vitality, there is a verse of St. Francis says: "Blessed is my God for all your creatures" and fire calls, "robust and strong", very nice this verse. The fire for me is a beautiful thing................................................................................

Drawing and art aside, what was your first love?......................................................................?

My first love was a girl, that marked me for life, left me to be with a Maltese, during the war, because in her house had a great hunger and the Maltese was in the British army and led her to eat , so she left me.

After a couple of years back and told me that had not forgotten anything and that was always in love; I, proud, told her everything had passed, after I cried but did not give for won. Then she is married to a person who has always been in love with her, we was rivals but now, as you know, old age is beautiful because it smooths everything.

Good soil and ancient tradition: Antica Fornace Mariani A hundred years old presence for an old work fitted in the centuries-old story of Impruneta and of its valuable “cotto”. The founder of this kiln-family was Anselmo Mariani with his brickyard in Ferrone ( end '800 beginning '900) and then with the more renowned one in Impruneta, bought from another “historical” family: the Scacciati. On the original production of building materials followed soon that of the manufactured artistic terracotta, for which specialization he made use of his sons' ( Angiolo and Armeno Mariani) cooperation. Today the company of Impruneta, which sprang up through Angiolo Mariani's intuition with the new brand MITAL, bases itself on his three sons ( Luigi, Franco and Enrico) and produces not only artistic articles but also manufactured traditional materials of the classic “cotto” of Impruneta , which is employed in the building of residences and villas. Besides, obviously, a wide range of articles for the furnishing: basins, vases, jars, flower stands and flower holders. With a further specialization, very much appreciated by a large clientele spread all over the world: the one of figures and statues of different sizes.

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La presente pubblicazione non rappresenta una testata giornalistica in quanto viene pubblicata senza alcuna periodicità. Non può pertanto considerarsi prodotto editoriale ai sensi della Legge n. 62 del 7.03.2001