Category: Arts & Culture

Sound sculptures to regenerate corals: it’s Marco Barotti’s “artscience

FERIDHOO (Maldives) – Ars gratia artis? Not always. Sometimes, art has a purpose, a practical utility. And we are not talking about a political-social or moral message, but a concrete, practical objective. That’s the case of “Coral Sonic Resilience”, the new work-project by Marco Barotti, an Italian multimedia artist based in Berlin, Germany, actually operating wherever it is possible to make art outside of any scheme and canon and wherever it is useful to stage any metaphor of the anthropogenic impact on the Earth, to make people aware of environmental and social issues.

‘Il Nibbio’ recalls a Secret Agent Hero

TORONTO – Renzo Piano’s scarab-shaped music halls in Rome recently hosted the photocall for Director Alessandro Tonda’s new film Il Nibbio. The film stars Claudio Santamaria as the heroic secret service agent who died while saving journalist Giuliana Sgrena – kidnapped in 2005 by Iraqi terrorists in Baghdad. Rounding out the principal cast are Sonia Bergamesco (as Giuliana Sgrena) and Anna Ferzetti (as Rosa Calipari), who were also on site for the event at the Parco della Musica.