With the appointment on Saturday 22 February 2025 at 5 pm in the Gottarelli Foundation hall, Via Caterina Sforza 13 in Imola, we want to commemorate the anniversary of the death of its founder Tonino Gottarelli, with an evocative ocarina concert entitled "Art and Music", interpreted by maestro Michele Carnevali.
The evening on Saturday 22 February 2025, dedicated to our founder Tonino Gottarelli, will be an exciting journey through the sounds full of melodies in a context full of works of art that will leave an indelible mark in the hearts of ocarina, music and culture enthusiasts.
The combination of music and art creates a true symbiosis, so much so that the harmony between the two is perfect, notes and colors seem to meet and it is as if the notes drew the entire painting: the notes become color and the painting becomes music.
We are in painting and music, they merge for the sole purpose of transporting the viewer into a parallel reality, made up of feelings, passion and representation of an inner reality. With a dip in local musical traditions, the atmosphere is filled with harmonies, from local folk songs to traditional Romagna melodies.
The concert on Saturday 22 February 2025 will see the audience enveloped in a magic that will leave them breathless as they aspire to explore in depth the rich musical tradition of the ocarina. Poetry, color and music will be the decisive elements that will give life to a fantastic, unique and unforgettable scenario.
About Michele Carnevali: A life dedicated to music is what Michele Carnevali has devoted to his passion since childhood. At the age of 9 he began attending the music school in Solarolo with Maestro Angelo Creonti. Later, he attended the Luigi Malerbi Music Institute in Lugo, a stepping stone to the G. B. Martini Conservatory in Bologna where he graduated in clarinet. From a young age he was passionate about the entire saxophone family and smaller instruments: ocarina, recorder, harmonica and flute. Before starting to teach in middle school, he was a professional orchestral player and performed in nightclubs throughout Europe in the '60s and '70s. In the dance music sector, he played with Vera Romagna by Ivano Nicolucci. His collection of ocarinas includes very rare pieces. His passion for this instrument was born after watching Bertolucci's film "1900," where the Ocarine group is featured in a series of festival and country dance scenes. With the ocarina in 2016, he played with the band of the Italian Air Force in Rome at the Rossini Theatre in Lugo to the notes of Moment for Morricone.
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On Wednesday 12 March at 9 pm in the hall of the Gottarelli Foundation, Via Caterina Sforza, 13, there will be a conversation entitled "Impressionism at the origins of modernity" by Prof. Pietro Lenzini.
During the evening, Prof. Pietro Lenzini talks, in images, about the stylistic revolution implemented by the movement born in France at the end of the nineteenth century, through a path that goes to the origins of the languages and aesthetic issues that characterize contemporary visual culture.
In 1869, the beginnings of what was to be called from 1874 onwards "impressionism" were already in place. The beginnings of "Impressionism" can be traced back to 1859. In this year, in fact, Baudelaire wrote his chronicle of the Salon for the last time and Delacroix exhibited his canvases. In this same period, Monet and Pissarro inaugurated a new era.
An evocation of the 1859 salon made it possible to assess the state of French painting at the time when those who would become "the impressionists" made their début. The thematic variety in the work of these artists, which is too often associated solely with landscape painting, was subsequently presented : history painting, portrait, still-life. The thematic renewal prompted a new way of painting which combined boldness of composition with a new freedom of stroke. Within ten years, a small number of artists from different origins and social backgrounds, who made up a disparate and changing movement, took over the example taught by Courbet and the realists, and inspired throughout the world the modern and consensual feeling of the style as "the most beautiful period in art".
The conversation will be accompanied by the projection of wonderful paintings to give the opportunity to the people present to share and immerse themselves in the world of these great artists.
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The appointment on Wednesday 9 April at 9 pm, in the Sala Fondazione Gottarelli, Via Caterina Sforza 13 in Imola, is dedicated to the discovery of the historical and cultural excellences of Imola and is entitled: "Where did the illustrious Imola people lived", by Dr. Liliana Vivoli.
It will be an opportunity to share ideas, get to know and explore places in an original way, immerse yourself in history, art and architectural beauty and enhance our territory rich in history, art and charm.
Almost always, in a hurry, we pass through old doors unaware of those who have crossed them in the past, we glance at windows without wondering who once looked out of them. So, let's try to look around with more attentive eyes: from the noble palaces (Macchirelli, Casoni, Monsignani etc.) to the most modest houses, every place has something to tell us about the people who lived their daily lives there in the past, who left a trace of themselves there. We will therefore take a virtual walk through the streets of Imola in search of them, offering the participants of the evening a dynamic and quality overview and we are sure that we would be able to make the Imola heritage usable.
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On Wednesday 21 May at 9 pm in the hall of the Gottarelli Foundation, Via Caterina Sforza, 13, there will be a conversation entitled "The librarian of the Castle of Dux. Giacomo Casanova this unknown" by Prof. Fabrizia Fiumi.
300 years after the death of Giacomo Casanova, he remains in the imagination as a seducer, an adventurer, an esotericist, but the Venetian deserves a more articulated and in-depth knowledge.
One of the most famous and popular characters of the eighteenth century, Giovanni Giacomo Casanova ended his adventurous existence as librarian of the Count of Waldestein in the castle of Dux in Bohemia (today Duchcov, Czech Republic), forced to accept a humiliating annual salary of one thousand florins to make ends meet.
Casanova's last years are marked by his exorbitant literary production as he faced the difficulties of old age and the troubled relationship with the Count's servants. Prostrated by illness, Casanova died in Dux on June 4th, 1798, after finding out that a few months earlier, with the Campoformio treaty, Napoleon had yielded his beloved motherland, Venice, to Austria.
His rapid and exciting page, a happy interweaving of adventure and reflection, still involves today's reader in an atmosphere of expectation, transmitting the exuberant vitality of a sensitive man caught in a perpetual challenge with luck.