the City of Salsomaggiore Terme is organizing the major exhibition Oro e Oriente curated by Valerio Terraroli and Maurizia Bonatti Bacchini The exhibition aims to celebrate the centenary of Terme Berzieri (inaugurated on May 27 1923) and retrace the production of Florentine Galileo Chini who made the establishment his artistic manifesto the result of the genius of a very modern man among the most significant exponents of Italian Art Nouveau andArt Deco.On display between Palazzo Tommasini and theformer Grand Hotel de Thermae (now Palazzo dei Congressi) are one hundred and twenty pieces through which Chini’s artistic genius is to be told in dialogue with the decorative apparatus and subjects ofspa iconography On display are the never-before-seen vases produced by the Fornaci San Lorenzo factory founded by Chini in the Mugello village of the same name in 1907 such as the oval vase with dots and secessionist motifs a symbol of the ritual of water at the Berzieri Spa also accompanied by drawings made by Chini preparatory studies and cartoons related to the great decorative apparatus of the Berzieri Baths expressing the cultural synthesis effected by Chini who draws on both the tradition of the Viennese Secession (Klimt) and oriental suggestions where the Florentine artist made the Throne Room in Bangkok of the King of Siam A set of elements that converge in the great unified project of Terme Berzieri a product of the artistic partnership of Chini and architect Ugo Giusti since the 1920s a true “cult place” capable of attracting the world jet set of show business and aristocracy that accompanies the exhibition aims to enhance the architectural richness of the spa palace and the artistic production of the Tuscan artist present in the building and that spread throughout the city The faithful restitution of the architectural environments through a complete and innovative 360-degree spherical digital photographic documentation and the documentation of the decorative apparatuses in very high definition have been from the beginning the main objective of this ambitious and extensive project supported and desired by the Municipal Administration of Salsomaggiore Terme The digital project fits into the exhibition itinerary in a continuous and ideal dialogue between the materiality of the works on display and the visitor to whom it is intended to offer an innovative visiting experience accompanying him or her in the discovery in the reading and artistic research of Chini’s work Unprecedented perspectives open up before the gaze of the observer and colors of the paintings that could hardly be grasped with the naked eye The multimedia project is articulated by presenting the interior and exterior environments of the spa palace: square atrium and different perspectives of the large halls The Tuscan artist’s iconic wall paintings cannot be missed: Spring and Autumn as well as the numerous details that are revealed to the public with high-definition The project extends to the City of Salsomaggiore with documentation of Palazzo dei Congressi and the Villa Fonio The exhibition enjoys the contribution of Fondazione Cariparma and Regione Emilia Romagna The exhibition is open Wednesday through Friday from 4 to 7 p.m.; Saturday the high-definition immersive project L’Oro di Chini will open at the Terme Tommasini in Salsomaggiore as part of the @cquechepassione festival.The festival shines a spotlight on a great protagonist of the decorative arts whose central element is water precisely in a city where water is fundamental: Galileo Chini (Florence Once a bathhouse for the working classes and now transformed into the public space of the New Civic Court Terme Tommasini will host L’Oro di Chini an immersive multimedia project curated by Marco Stucchi with scientific supervision by Salsa scholar Maurizia Bonatti Bacchini The event will consist of ultra-high-definition projections that will make it possible to see details that are difficult to grasp: thanks to the technologies used know and better understand Chini’s poetics and appreciate the architectures with a new gaze capable of identifying the most hidden aspects and enhancing the artistic heritage assets The images chosen by Marco Stucchi are so in-depth and rich in details that they capture Chini’s brushstroke which open the way for new studies and research capable of combining tradition and innovation,” says Valeria Tedaldi that allows us to rediscover a great author of the caliber of Galileo Chini through the fascinating detail of his works to capture the beauty and grandeur of a multifaceted artist like Chini and of an iconic work on the level of architectural design.” Chini’s work becomes easier to enjoy “Digital tools allow today a reading analysis and interpretation of artistic works that was not possible in the past,” says Marco Stucchi and in particular very high resolution photographic detection will allow the visitor a virtual dialogue with the author of the work as details impossible to see with the naked eye will be made visible." Pozzo Scotti and the Palazzo dei Congressi are among the Salsa sites at the center of the immersive guided tour program anticipating the grand opening of the event “The installation is the festival’s legacy to the host locality,” explains Mayor Filippo Fritelli “It is the first step in that system of the diffuse museum and storytelling of the natural ecosystem of Salsomaggiore Terme which in the Room of Wonders has as of today the control room.” Visits will cost 6 euros per person and 3 euros for guests of Salsomaggiore accommodations conceived and coordinated by the Salsomaggiore Municipal Administration and realized thanks to the contribution of Parma Province Parma Italian Capital of Culture 2020 + 21 For details on dates and event information, see the updated program at https://visitsalsomaggiore.it/it/ Why did the International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza decide to dedicate an exhibition to Galileo Chini First of all because Galileo Chini is one of the great masters of ceramics of the first half of the 20th century and secondly because 2023 will mark the centenary of the inauguration of the Terme Berzieri in Salsomaggiore Terme in the province of Parma: the last great ideational decorative and ceramic masterpiece of Galileo Chini and the Manifattura Fornaci S then passing the baton to the City of Salsomaggiore Terme for celebrations in honor of the artist with an exhibition and a series of initiatives What did the relationship between Galileo Chini and Faenza consist of It is a very close relationship because Faenza is one of the world capitals of ceramics tout court and of majolica in particular Chini also participated in 1908 in decorating the panels that adorned the artistic sections of the exhibition dedicated to Evangelista Torricelli an exhibition from which the idea of establishing an international museum of modern ceramics was born Galileo Chini was among the first donors of works What goals have been set for this exhibition Is it suitable for everyone or mainly for an audience of enthusiasts and connoisseurs the exhibition on Chini the ceramist also wants to speak to the widest possible audience: the exhibition is really designed for a wide audience and is not aimed only at specialists It is an exhibition that is a pleasure for the eyes but for the audience of non-specialists the exhibition is interesting and enjoyable because the objects exhibited are very different from each other and then they tell the story of a young man because Galileo Chini was just twenty-three years old when he decided with three other friends to start a small business (L’Arte della Ceramica in Florence in 1896) and later in Mugello with his cousins he opened the Fornaci S carrying on that industrial initiative until the years 1925-1926 which features some 300 pieces on display including ceramics and drawings is thus also the story of a young artist who put himself on the line and faced the problems of his time namely how to respond to the solicitations of modernity how to interpret the Art Nouveau taste and It is basically structured according to the time line but we still followed a historical development The exhibition opens with the adventure of L’Arte della Ceramica bringing out the characters of the themes dealt with by the new taste that Chini was bringing forth namely French-style Art Nouveau and then Italian Liberty arriving at the interest in Klimt and the Secession all the way to Déco with Terme Berzieri there are also sections devoted to specific themes which is a theme that Chini continued to deal with from the beginning until the 1920s (the peacock is a symbol of international Art Nouveau) which characterize Galileo’s work as a decorator at spa towns (Montecatini And then a particular technique is presented that of stoneware: a fairly crude ceramic material that was used to create industrial objects but which the Chinis were able to transform into an artistic object light brown/beige/gray in color ,is decorated with very simple shapes By what is an Art Nouveau ceramic characterized from one of Art Deco taste The Art Nouveau style is related to floral: its inspirational motifs are nature the eternal spring (the distant inspiration is Botticelli’s Venus ) The Déco taste identifies itself because it is symmetrical presents itself as an alternative to the stylistic grammar of Art Nouveau; for as much Art Nouveau and Art Nouveau are naturalistic and asymmetrical as Déco is regular and geometric Where do the three hundred or so pieces on display come from Almost all of the pieces come from private collections except for four that belong to the collection of the MIC in Faenza (entered over time through donations from the Chini family) and one comes from the Chini Museum in Borgo San Lorenzo in Mugello So the exhibition also has the task of bringing out many pieces that people don’t know about because they are never seen So what are the pieces that one should definitely dwell on Definitely the first one you see as you enter the exhibition: an amphora of Renaissance taste which therefore makes it clear how Galileo Chini starts from the great tradition of Tuscan Renaissance ceramics but which presents on the surface of the vase young people and fauns and even a centaur and a centaury embracing symbolizing the eternal renewal of love in spring corresponding to the great Turin exhibition of 1902 one encounters lustre-decorated ceramics with floral but more Klimtian themes close to Northern European taste; I then find the peacock area very amusing I would stop to see the stonewares and last the ceramics with monstrous fish and sea creatures because the last section is dedicated to the large three-meter by three-meter cardboard that constitutes the final design of the decorations that Galileo painted on the walls of the building’s interior staircase There are also unpublished works among the ceramics How many are there and what do they depict as a percentage they will be 30 percent of the total Others over time have been published and made known are in the drawings: there are quite a few the visitor is continually given the opportunity to compare the preparatory drawing with the piece in fact understanding how the ideas for the different ceramics came about then the pieces were created using the molds and were decorated pictorially by workers who knew how to paint along the lines of Galileo’s design So what is enhanced in the exhibition is not only the final object but the whole creative and then executive process that leads to the art piece So from the preparatory drawings we also understand Galileo Chini’s creative process Very significant in this sense is a large plate with a seabed displayed with Galileo’s drawing next to it with all the indications (including the colors and their position) One can then see a polish all pitted which was kept in the factory and then on occasion placed on the ceramic plate to be painted and dusted with charcoal powder and then the decorators would superimpose the color palette on it with glaze or luster following the artist’s instructions The piece was then fired a second time to fix the color and give it the glazed appearance is Galileo Chini a fairly well-known artist to the general public today Although exhibitions have also been dedicated to him recently which focuses on the period 1896-1925 and on Galileo Chini only exclusively inventing ceramics the general public may not know him: it is a name that probably immediately evokes works but you would only have to go to the Venice Biennale right at the entrance to the central Pavilion of the Giardini and look up at the dome: it was all painted by Galileo Chini in 1909 where do you suggest going to discover the art of Galileo Chini just go up to the second floor of the museum: there is a whole showcase here with pieces by Galileo Chini that were not displayed in the exhibition on purpose so that the public could go and see the museum as well but they are related to his contemporaries and other artists who worked with ceramics in the 1910s and 1920s Then I would recommend going to Salsomaggiore Terme to see the Berzieri Baths which today can be seen from the outside because it is a construction site (hopefully by May they will be open) whose ballroom was entirely painted by Galileo Chini with oriental themes related to his trip to Siam (1911-1913) to decorate the Throne Palace and to his experience as a set designer for the staging of Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot (1926) because all the ceramics and all the decorations of the famous Tettuccio Baths are by Galileo Chini Eighteen-year-old Sara Spiteri has won the Miss Italia - Malta 2003 contest and will take part in the Miss Italia del Mondo contest in Salsomaggiore Terme Forty contestants will be vying for the title Sara beat off competition from 14 other beauties of Italian descent at the New Dolmen Hotel where 500 guests attended The family of Sara's grandfather originated from Catania The competition was organised by Anton Vella of Pyramid Productions please register for free or log in to your account Provincia di Bergamo has a high level of seismic activity Based on data from the past 25 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900 there are about 79 quakes on average per year in or near the Province of Bergamo Provincia di Bergamo has had at least 15 quakes above magnitude 7 since 1900 which suggests that larger earthquakes of this size occur infrequently probably on average approximately every 5 to 10 years Provincia di Bergamo has about 25 quakes of magnitude 2 or higher per year The quake had a very shallow depth of 25 km (16 mi) and was reported felt by some people near the epicenter Provincia di Bergamo has had 3 quakes of magnitude 3.0 or above and 26 quakes between 2.0 and 3.0 There have been also 34 quakes below magnitude 2.0 which people don't normally feel The quake had a very shallow depth of 25 km (16 mi) and was reported felt by some people near the epicenter.