by /// October 18 Autumn is here, and in the coming weekends, as the days grow shorter and the temperatures begin to drop, there is nothing better than a food trip out of the city in search of the best typical products of Emilia-Romagna (the region that, let us not forget, boasts the highest number of PDO and PGI products in Italy) of the October food and wine festivals not to be missed… and there is something for everyone During the weekends at the end of September and the beginning of October (28-29 September, 5-6-12-13 October), Comacchio, the town on the water, hosts a famous festival dedicated to the Queen of the Valleys: the eel the tasting of delicious eel and fish dishes The first weekend of October (4-5-6 October 2024) sees the return of the National Porcini Mushroom Fair in Albareto the village in the Parma Apennines considered one of the porcini’s homelands Twinned with the International Fair of the White Truffle of Alba the fair offers a rich programme of events and entertainment The weekend of 5-6 October 2024 sees the return of Mast Còt in Spilamberto, the event celebrating the moment when Traditional Balsamic Vinegar of Modena PDO comes to life The event is organised by the Museum of Traditional Balsamic Vinegar in collaboration with the Municipality of Spilamberto and the Consortium of Traditional Balsamic Vinegar of Modena On Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 October 2024, the evocative medieval village of Castell’Arquato comes alive with the traditional Festa delle Castagne e dei Ricordi (Chestnuts and Memories Festival): a day to relive the atmosphere and flavours of the past In addition to the markets in the village streets a tractor parade through the village streets and many moments of entertainment On Sunday, 6 October 2024, the Mushroom and Truffle Exhibition and Grape Festival returns to the streets of the village of Bobbio (one of the most beautiful villages in Italy and one of the Touring Club Orange Flag villages) in the Trebbia Valley the village comes alive with a market of typical local products and wines while themed menus are offered in the restaurants Throughout the day at the central stand it is possible to discover how to recognise mushrooms; activities such as the truffle dog race and the chestnut festival are on the programme Every Sunday in October (6-13-20-27 October 2024), the streets and alleys of the picturesque village of Sant’Agata Feltria will host the National Fair of the Prized White Truffle, dedicated to the precious local tuber or Here is the full programme of events Every Sunday in October and the first Sunday in November, the spa town of Bagno di Romagna comes alive with a calendar of festivals dedicated to local recipes and products All the events include a market with typical products Traditionally, the Sundays in October (6, 13, 20 and 27 October 2024) in Montefiore Conca are dedicated to the autumn fruit par excellence: the chestnut The Chestnut Festival, with its food stalls and markets, is also the perfect opportunity to discover the imposing fortress Montefiore is considered the medieval capital of the Conca Valley and one of the most fascinating and well-preserved Malatesta towns From Thursday 3rd to Sunday 6th October 2024, Cotignola, a town in the hinterland of Ravenna built on the banks of the river Senio, will once again host the festival that pays tribute to the Cagnina novella folk dances and the ritual of crushing the grapes barefoot there is also the opportunity to taste local gastronomic specialities and all the most typical dishes of Romagna cuisine On the two central weekends of October (12-13 and 19-20 October 2024), the date with the market of local autumn products and ancient fruits returns to the streets of Casola Valsenio a charming village in the province of Ravenna The Festa dei Frutti Dimenticati (Festival of Forgotten Fruits) offers a programme entirely dedicated to the rural life of the past rediscovering local agricultural traditions through tastings On the second weekend of October (12-13 October 2024), Borgo Rivola, near Riolo Terme in the province of Ravenna, will host the Sagra della Zucca e dell’Uva Bacarona (Festival of the Pumpkin and the Bacarona Grape) a type of red table grape that ripens in October Typical local dishes such as the trio of pumpkin chestnut and potato tortelli can be tasted at the food stalls From the second Sunday in October and for the following two Sundays (13-20-27 October 2024), the mountain village of Zocca, in the province of Modena, hosts the traditional Chestnut Festival The streets of the town centre will be lined with food stalls all accompanied by music and entertainment for young and old The festival highlights the link between Zocca and the production of chestnuts, a precious forest fruit that has always been important for the people of the Apennines, a link that is also underlined by the presence of a centuries-old chestnut tree in the area and the Chestnut Museum On the Sundays in October (6-13-20 October 2024) the traditional Sagra del Marrone (Chestnut Festival) returns to Castel del Rio Castel del Rio is a mountain village in the province of Bologna surrounded by forests and centuries-old chestnut groves which takes place in the centre of the village it is possible to browse the stalls of the typical products market and to taste – both in the stalls set up in the square and in the various local restaurants – the many local dishes in which chestnuts and chestnut flour are the main ingredients Tartufesta and Tartòfla are the traditional events that animate the towns of the Bolognese hinterland on weekends between the end of October and the beginning of November themed menus and many initiatives centred on the precious white truffle of the Colli Bolognesi A fun way to spend a day among the unforgettable aromas and flavours of the area’s food and wine tradition On the last three Sundays of October (13-20-27 October 2024), Marola, a hamlet in the municipality of Carpineti in the province of Reggio Emilia, will host the traditional Chestnut Festival Marola’s was the first of the festivals dedicated to the chestnut in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines and one of the first in Italy with the aim of rediscovering and valorising a forest product that The programme includes guided walks through chestnut groves and metati roast chestnuts with mulled wine and many activities for children On Sunday 13th October 2024, the streets and squares of the centre of Soliera will host the return of Il profumo del mosto cotto an autumn festival celebrating the food and wine traditions Sunday 13 and Sunday 20 October 2024 in Talamello, a picturesque village in the province of Rimini, the Marecchia Valley Marrone Fair returns a prized variety typical of the area since medieval times On sale at the festival are ‘ballotte’ (chestnuts boiled in water) and ‘caldarroste’ (chestnuts cooked on the grill using the traditional pan with holes) first and second courses based on this autumn product On Sunday 13 and Sunday 20 October 2024, Alfero will host the event that celebrates the most delicious fruit of the autumn season: the Chestnut Festival commercial and refreshment stalls will be set up along the town’s main street where you can sample typical chestnut products Don’t miss the chance to taste ‘castagnaccio’ and roasted chestnuts washed down with the local Cagnina wine Every Sunday, from 13 October to 17 November 2024, Calestano will host the Black Truffle of Fragno National Fair In addition to the usual stalls selling typical autumn products while throughout the fair the restaurants of Calestano and the surrounding area offer traditional dishes based on the delicious local truffle From Friday 18 to Sunday 20 October 2024, in the unique and evocative setting of Modena‘s Piazza Grande, the high food and wine market exhibition La Bonissima the festival of taste and typical Modenese products food lovers will be able to discover and purchase exclusive products directly from the producers as well as taste typical specialities prepared on the spot On Sunday 20 October 2024, Fanano returns to the traditional appointment with ‘Ste Sroden which in Modenese dialect means this autumn this delightful village in the Modena Apennines dresses up in autumn colors; in a magical atmosphere of leaves and chestnuts local restaurateurs set up stalls serving seasonal specialities based on mushrooms On the last two weekends of October (19-20 and 26-27 October 2024), Bedonia will host the Truffle Fair the ideal opportunity to discover the black truffle of the Ceno Valley The programme includes a food & wine market with local producers themed menus in the restaurants of the Ceno Valley and many events dedicated to the precious local tuber Moreover, on the first three Sundays of October 2024, in San Cassiano, a hamlet near Brisighella, the traditional Polenta Festival returns GiovinBacco. Sangiovese in Festa is the largest wine event dedicated to Sangiovese and Romagna wines in general. Three days, from Friday 25 to Sunday 27 October 2024, in the heart of Ravenna dedicated to good wine and good food from Romagna On the last weekend of October (26-27 October 2024) Montecreto, Città del Castagno in the province of Modena, will host the Chestnut Festival an unmissable autumn event in the Modena Apennines The festival takes place along the main street of the town and in the picturesque Parco dei Castagni, the ideal setting for this event. In the Parco dei Castagni there are trees that seem to date back to the time of Matilde di Canossa as well as the opportunity to taste local specialities such as chestnut ‘ciacci’ Social Media Manager for @inEmiliaRomagna and full-time mom by /// September 6 by /// September 17 by /// September 11 an email (in Italian) with selected contents and upcoming events by /// June 27 by /// November 11 by /// January 20 For information, contact us: inemiliaromagna@aptservizi.com on the occasion of its 20th year of activity Ossimoro Galleria d’Arte in Spilamberto (Modena) presents an in-depth exhibition dedicated to Elisabetta Sirani (Bologna among the most important painters of seventeenth-century Bologna Painter in 17th-century Bologna is organized in collaboration with the Municipality of Vignola with the patronage of the Municipality of Spilamberto and the support of Ricognizioni sull’arte APS.The exhibition will be held in two venues: in theOffice of the Mayor of the Municipality of Vignola it will be possible to admire a masterpiece by the painter entitled The Three Virtues recently exhibited at the Uffizi Galleries while the spaces of the Art Gallery in Spilamberto will display five paintings by Elisabetta Sirani exhibited in 2021 at the Royal Palace in Milan Introducing the exhibition in the Gallery will be a masterpiece by her father a leading pupil of Guido Reni’s workshop “In twenty years of antiquarianism,” writes Sergio Bianchi “I have had the good fortune and privilege of acquiring and dealing with three important paintings by the Bolognese painter who in her brief existential parabola (she died at only 27 years old) was able to impose herself within the Bolognese School along with three other paintings by Elisabetta herself and her father Giovanni Andrea Sirani Heartfelt thanks go to the Municipality of Vignola and Daniela Fatatis allowing the public to view an extraordinary work (The Three Virtues) commissioned from the artist by Leopoldo de’ Medici and purchased in 2003 by the Municipality of Vignola a catalog of the proposed works will be published enriched by two previously unpublished contributions by Adelina Modesti and Massimo Pulini which will be presented to the public as part of two lectures School of Communication and Culture at the University of Melbourne will speak during the opening day on the theme La committenza di Elisabetta Sirani: i Medici ed il loro entourage; Massimo Pulini art historian and professor of Painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna will hold a talk on the theme Giovanni Andrea Sirani all’ombra di Elisabetta Admission to the exhibition and lectures is free and reservations are not required Ossimoro Art Gallery is open to the public Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m The Mayor’s Office at the City of Vignola is accessible on Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m by reservation at segreteriasindaco@comune.vignola.mo.it For information: www.ossimoro.com Image: Elisabetta Sirani, The Three Virtues (1664; oil on canvas, 139 x 165 cm) Luxembourg, January 18th, 2021 – Amazon announced today the opening of two new sites in Italy this year. With the fulfillment center in Novara and the sortation center in Spilamberto (MO), Amazon will create 1,100 permanent jobs in three years on top of the company’s 8.500 existing roles in the Country. The launch of the two new sites means Amazon is adding over 230 million euros to the 5.8 billions euros already invested since 2010. Amazon is further increasing the size of its Italian logistic network to meet increasing customer demand, expand its product selection and support a growing number of independent small businesses selling at Amazon using Fulfillment by Amazon warehousing and delivery. In addition to the safety measures and additional pay for our people, in Italy we also committed 3.5 million euros to important causes. We donated 2.5 million euros to the Italian Civil Protection Department as a contribution to their incredible efforts in supporting the Italian health system fighting the COVID-19 outbreak. And we donated 1 million euros to local NGOs helping vulnerable groups such as young people, the elderly or families with limited resources where Amazonians live and work. Amazon has invested over 5.8 billion euro in Italy, generating over 8500 full-time jobs since its arrival in 2010. 1,600 new permanent jobs has been created in 202, in more than 40 locations across Italy. During 2020, the Company opened two new top-of-the-line fulfillment centers: in Castelguglielmo/San Bellino (Rovigo) and in Colleferro (Rome), while over the last two years, Amazon has opened various centers and warehouses for sorting packages throughout the Peninsula. This, along with two additional urban fulfillment centers to serve Amazon Prime Now customers in Milano and Rome. On top of these investments in its Italian logistics network, in 2013, Amazon opened its Customer Service center in Cagliari, alongside its Milanese corporate headquarters as well. In 2017, Amazon moved to its new corporate offices (17,500 square meters) in the emerging business district of Porta Nuova. The Company also opened a Development Center for research on speech recognition and natural language understanding to support the Alexa voice recognition technology. 2021 | Giovanni Francesco Berbieri known as Guercino 1625 c.a 81 x 70 cm Courtesy of Ossimoro Spilamberto Art Gallery And where is the land where “milk and honey flow” He sees the mermaid-enchanted Mediterranean sea it is now an “open sea” and Europe is about one Canaan too far away people flood without guidance to escape the horror; and to set out for the Promised Land If Guercino’s naturalistic inclination in his Moses makes the work true to the real world then even more so does it reveal an expression of “obedience” to the appearance of the light of God The Moses of 2021 turns his face in sundering pain from this light In Promised Land by the Italian artist duo Hackatao the dream of the Promised Land is reversed showing the point of view of migrants and demonstrating the utopia of a “paradise” that only exists when experienced and beheld from its inside The place of happiness becomes the non-lieu that traces the portrait of our century par excellence; that of refugees those who abandon their former lives to embark with the new The millenial rest of Moses and his awakening which Hackatao imagined through their artistic gesture of creating a work in narrative dialogue with Guercino’s Moses Even with passing millenia the dramas and needs of human beings change not in essence The combination of a digital art work exhibited on a screen with that of a great Italian master like Guercino no longer seems brazen but an intuitively simple step in a tradition which bridges the archaic with the contemporary In contrast with the absence of place which characterizes our age through their art Hackatao take us to what is instead its agora; a place of encounters where space and time cancel each other out and where the promise of a land is within reach of all and you will stand in the place of God for him.” between indivisible and continuous time and space The project “Promised Land” was conceived by Alessandro Mescoli for the new season of CRAC Art Space in Castelnuovo Rangone (MO) On display from February 7th to March 28th The art piece “Moses” by Guercino is courtesy of Ossimoro Art Gallery (www.ossimoro.com) The virtual show is taking place today Feb 13th on Arium platform (https://arium.events/) with a dense schedule of presentations and visitors going around with webcams and microphones “just like being in the same room together again” "Promised Land" art show on Arium platform When Hackatao invited me to curate this project - together with the amazing Alessandro Mescoli - I felt blessed But I really loved the attitude of Hackatao towards this opportunity and together we made the decision of not treating the show as a “challenge” or a comparison: instead I tried to escape the structures and schemes of the history How can “someone” like Moses relate to our times How can the standing of such a majestic and crucial character possibly be in conversation with contemporary topics and issues The more I kept thinking about the story of Moses the more I was understanding that nothing has ever really changed I started to see that exodus of “his” people not being that different from our migrations in the Mediterranean sea Of course the times and modes have changed but not the core of the needs and dramas of humanity And I began to wonder: what if we create a real narration in the content Without caring about stylistic frills or worrying about -isms Centuries have passed while humanity has never changed The conversation was always there and art has been perpetuating the narration What were these people looking for when Moses was their guide a destination: haven’t we always been in the search of a “Promised Land” Giovanni Francesco Berbieri known as Guercino 1625 c.a 81 x 70 cm Courtesy of Ossimoro Spilamberto Art Gallery This interview is meant to be a conversation between the artist duo Hackatao and the two curators of the project Alessandro Mescoli and Eleonora Brizi tell us about how the project took form and how you had the idea of pulling together the art of Guercino one of the Italian masters of the 17th century with the very contemporary art by Hackatao Everything originated from the desire to create an oxymoron What better possibility than to activate this contrast through a temporal gap I have already investigated this issue in other institutional exhibitions because I believe that antithetical combinations can often strengthen the value and understanding of the works on display; even outside the classic “whiteroom” or rather historical - critical aspect: the demonstration of the evolution of artistic thought without interruption The Baroque is an ideal condition to highlight the differences with the future the weight of the frills and the arabesque Everything you do not expect from a digital work which at least in theory people believe to be minimal and depleted of a material medium or a real support On the theoretical level The choice of a "warm" painter serves to exacerbate the contrast towards the ultra contemporary almost realistic in reproducing even the consumption of the skin I could have brought Guido Reni but it would have been a cold palette idealized pale android faces (think of his crucifixions or his depositions) the luck of the availability of Sergio Bianchi's Ossimoro art gallery in lending the work we have selected the choice fell on them for trust and transversality with the desire to keep together a group of artists including them as an essential gift to guarantee the stability of a project with its own identity capable of harmonizing with the ancient canvas what was your first reaction when you got invited to exhibit your art together with that of a painter like Guercino Did you feel the weight of the past or the push of the contemporaneity confront ourselves and collaborate with other artists and we conceived this “challenge” just like a collaboration between us and Guercino Our languages ​​are very distant and different for this reason the comparison was even more interesting we research and study the context or topic It is a moment in which we feed our mind with stimuli which we then transform into the artwork The comparison with artists of the past is never a burden first of all we are dwarves on the shoulders of giants what has already been done helps us to follow a path of originality Meaning that if you know the roads that were already traveled we focused on the theme of the exodus that we transposed into the contemporary world We wanted to approach it from a different perspective from the point of view of those who are arriving I was very surprised by the refined color system of the Promised Land animation Have you studied works of the past to draw inspiration or was it developed for tests and combinations with the work of Guercino The chromatic research in our works is always very important and the colors are never random In Promised Land we felt the need to harmonize colors with Guercino's work but without distorting our POP vein through color we also wanted to communicate the dramatic situation of the passage through the waters So there is a search for meaning and attention to harmony in the dialogue between the two works In the short narratives that occur through your animations but never finished; a little suspended as it happened in the "open work" so dear to Calvino or to Eco Chance or attention to the language of the new avant-gardes our works respect the canons of "open work" No answer defined by us artists but a stimulus to multiple interpretations The user of the work has the opportunity to participate in the hacking of the theme with us freeing us from the usual cinematographic language and imprisoned in an eternal loop that in the case of Promised Land matches the continuous repetition of the migrations of peoples In the work we also tried to give a hypnotic sense that wants to visually resume the siren's call then emphasized in the music created ad hoc by Matermato which amplifies this feeling of hypnotic suspension and unstoppable drama why did you think of diversifying your career as an art curator and critic by focusing on digital art It was a very natural and spontaneous transition on the other it constitutes a shortcut to the new outside of many academic schemes and limits I was catapulted into the world of "the most" contemporary art Working with the artist Ai Weiwei for four years was a bit like going to a school of contemporary: from an artistic and above all social point of view from which one can no longer ignore and I believe that this has helped me to have an eye always open on everything that is highly contemporary does digital art leave room for figuration and narration in the international contemporary scene to which we unfortunately address in these terms and which I would prefer to simply call (contemporary) "art" does not differ from figuration nor even from narration it manifests itself in its own aesthetic and canons which are another way of understanding the same concepts or currents as well as the "morality" that we draw from this artistic juxtaposition of a work by Guercino with that of Hackatao: little has changed over the centuries in substance Having now proof that a figurative painting like that of Moses can absolutely dialogue with a digital animation depicting a moving siren and perpetuate a narrative that actually never ended I don't think there is much to add: we were when we drink a vermouth with a nice ice cube when we relax in a sauna: it is always water What was the first emotional impact you had in viewing the juxtaposition of the two works A futuristic but ancient and Mediterranean work in the story told to the chromatic system and to the tradition of drawing where the harmonic kinesia of the characters brings the mind back to certain scenes of Viola where the viewer practiced to visually trace every flickering of the image but now it is the guide of men among the waves The works are completed through a union that smooths out like the short century of the twentieth century all the differences that can manifest themselves in 400 years And although Guercino's Moses seems to ironically protect his face the history of art itself is called upon to confirm its destiny It will be a "sin" to separate the two works when the exhibition is over: Man does not divide what God has united E: It is nice that you ask about the emotional impact of the curator since I followed the creation of the digital work step by step I unfortunately deprived myself of that pleasant surprise that I believe will strike many of the observers the thrill of seeing it alongside Moses was enormous The issue addressed in Hackatao's Promised Land is one that I particularly care about both from a personal and a social point of view whether it is forced and obligatory or wanted and sought This is why I loved the opportunity of a "deconsecrated" Moses but rather lived in his highest function: that of leader to salvation which can change its language with the passing of the centuries A section of the mood-board of inspirations for "Promised Land" by Hackatao The artwork Promised Land by Hackatao is tokenized on the platform SuperRare at the following link: https://superrare.co/artwork-v2/promised-land-19319 We use cookies to improve your experience on our site. 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Important discovery in Romagna: in Bagnara di Romagna (Ravenna) an antiquarian has in fact found an unpublished sculpture by Alfonso Lombardi (Ferrara the leading 16th-century sculptor in Ferrara also known as “Alfonso Cittadella” or “Alfonso da Ferrara,” whom a legend widespread in the19th century has him praised even by Michelangelo (according to whom he was “marvelous in his work that the earth trembled under his hands in obedience to him”) who did not appreciate him on a human level because of his temperament judged frivolous and vain is a Penitent Saint Jerome in clay and terracotta 48 centimeters in height: it is currently in Spilamberto (Modena) and was found by an antiquarian in Villa Morsiani a 15th-century residence in Bagnara di Romagna A peculiar curiosity: in April 1993 (so exactly 30 years ago years ago) a famous international furniture in a feature dedicated to the historic Romagna mansion in a photographic sequence of the interiors also took up Lombardi’s sculpture without identifying its author and believing it to be an 18th-century sculpture author of a specific 2018 monograph and an expert who presented Lombardi’s Salvator Mundi at the Tefaf in Maastricht recently explained in Spilamberto itself (at the antiquarian gallery ’Ossimoro’) that the rediscovered Saint Jerome shows obvious parallels with other Lombardi masterpieces contained in the church of San Petronio in Castel Bolognese an entirely similar figure of the saint is presented full-length the one rediscovered at Villa Morsiani is a half-length lacking the left arm that is thought to hold a crucifix “may have originally been the upper part of a full-length statue or was a figure of a saint encased in a niche or even composed a frieze of saints in a large terracotta altarpiece.” What is certain is that fast and dynamic manner of modeling shows the hand of the author Another Saint Jerome hermit and penitent in the desert is preserved in Faenza at the Pinacoteca Nazionale Lombardi also worked for a long time in Bologna the famous Lamentation over the Dead Christ group in St Peter’s Cathedral; his is the monumental Hercules in the Palazzo degli Anziani In Ferrara Lombardi’s first attestation is documented in May 1517 with his involvement in the decoration of the palace on the river island of Belvedere also known as “il Boschetto,” (present-day railway station area) formerly a military surveillance area transformed by Alfonso I into a princely architectural and naturalistic space The author is also involved in the most representative building site of the time the extension of Alfonso I’s residence in Via Coperta where he is engaged alongside important artists “What emerges is the profile,” Lucidi concludes following the death of Antonio Lombardo in 1516 had assumed a leading role in the Este building sites in the art of wax and terracotta modeling applied to the practice of naturalistic portraiture and medallic work inspired by antiquity.”