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The festival dedicated to the Baroque and Neo-Baroque returns to the picturesque setting of Ragusa Ibla: the third edition of the festival will take place from September 21st to 24th, for four days of exhibitions, installations, guided tours, and meetings.
Under the direction of Roberto Semprini, the festival’s creator and artistic director, and the curatorship of the journalist and design critic Cristina Morozzi, the festival will take place among luxurious palaces, theaters, and evocative locations that have made Ragusa Ibla, one of the pearls of the Sicilian Baroque, a UNESCO Heritage site. “Baroque and Neo-Baroque has an ambitious objective,” underlined Roberto Semprini, “to position itself as a permanent observatory, unique in its kind, on expressions of the Neo-Baroque in art and social aesthetics.”
The goal of the initiative is to create a dialogue on the artistic and social aesthetic articulations of the Neo-Baroque, inviting a wide range of creatives to present their proposals. Artists, stylists, chefs, musicians, designers, and students from the Academy of Fine Arts will have the opportunity to meet, showcase their visions, make themselves known, and convey their ideas on a stage of international importance.
The conferences and exhibitions will take place in some of the most beautiful places of Ragusa Ibla: the Palazzo Cosentini, the Teatro di Donnafugata, the former Chiesa di San Vincenzo Ferreri, the Museo della Cattedrale and the Giardino Ibleo will host the freest and most recent expressions of the Neo-Baroque.
Palazzo Cosentini will host the works of students from the Academies of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan, Abadir in Catania, and ISIA in Faenza, who will have ample space on the ground floor of the palace to display their pieces. The main floor of Palazzo Cosentini will display design projects, the result of research and experimentation by companies and designers like Migliorino and Pietracolata, paintings by painters such as Pulini and Blanco, and photographs by artists like Villa and Bramante.
The former Chiesa di San Vincenzo Ferreri will be the setting for the installation curated by Loredana Roccasalva, the Modica fashion designer: a journey into and out of the fabrics, recounting the lives of our clothes, which will be narrated by the voice of Antonio Giannone.
A rich program of conferences and performances will round out the festival, featuring prominent figures in the world of art, design, and culture. The Giardino Ibleo and the Teatro di Donnafugata will host high-level meetings with artists and journalists like Cristina Morozzi, curator of the festival; Davide Rampello, television and artistic director; Gianni Canova, Dean of IULM in Milan, cinematographic critic, television author, artistic director and essayist; Francesca Fellini, Federico Fellini’s niece; and Luigi Piccolo, costume designer of Fellini’s films.
The Teatro di Donnafugata will host the performance In funn’o mare, a solo of dance and words, guided by the movements of Veronika Aguglia with the texts of Tomasi di Lampedusa, Davide Enia and Blessing Okoedion.
Finally, the suggestive Castello di Donnafugata will host the gala dinner, curated by the chef Claudio Ruta.
“We, as people, do not inhabit empty spaces but coexist with things and objects that are traces and memories of our existence and way of thinking,” curator Morozzi concluded. “This proves that the superfluous plays an important role, that the pleasure of the eye and sight must be satisfied. Who ever said that design must be only rigorous and minimal? Two philosophies of thought are never mutually exclusive and a priori: the Neo-Baroque is enrichment, craftsmanship to be rediscovered.”
Location: Ragusa Ibla, Italy
Date: from September, 21st to September, 24th
