Projects & Events

On Thursday 29 February 2024, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., the Ethicando Association (www.ethicando.it), at its exhibition space ETHICANDO GALLERY, Viale Luigi Majno 38 - 20129 Milan, organises the opening of the personal exhibition of artist Paola Giordano entitled METROPOLITAN FLOWERS. Lighting up the colours of your life, with the artistic curatorship of Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico.

From 29 February to 10 March 2024, N. 20 drawings on paper will be exhibited, focusing on the theme of contemporary urban unease in the age of globalisation and the incessant development of new technologies, with a message of hope from the artist, who hopes for a renewed social balance thanks to the individual and collective rediscovery of eistential colours/values.

The exhibition can be visited every day from 3.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m. (except Saturdays and Sundays), subject to booking and confirmation of participation by the organisation (e-mail address: info@ethicando.it).

The initiative is promoted by the international communication platform Betting On Italy (BOI).

For information:

Ethicando Association

E-mail: info@ethicando.it

www.ethicando.it

Friday 16^th February 2024, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., at the Chamber of Deputies, Sala Giacomo Matteotti of Palazzo Theodoli-Bianchelli, Piazza del Parlamento n. 19 - 00186 Rome, ETHICANDO Association of Milan (www.ethicando.it) will be presenting the event entitled "SUSTART. SUSTAINABILITY OF ART AND TERRITORIAL PROMOTION" with the artistic and scientific curatorship of Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico.

The event, which consists of a Discussion on the Sustainability of Art with the involvement of personalities from the institutions, academia and universities, the world of art and culture, professions and creative industries, will envisage the participation of parliamentary and government lecturers including Hon. Lorenzo Cesa (President of the Italian Delegation at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly), Sen. Roberto Marti (President 7th Comm. of the Senate of the Republic - Culture and Cultural Heritage, Public Education), Hon. Federico Mollicone (tbc), (President 7th Comm. of the Chamber of Deputies - Culture, Science and Education), , Hon. Saverio Congedo (Leader of the FdI Group, Commission VI - Finance, Member of the Antimafia Commission of the Chamber of Deputies), Hon. Andrea Caroppo (Member of the IX Commission for Transport, Posts and Telecommunications of the Chamber of Deputies), Mr. Giacomo Vigna (Head of Division V - Made in Italy and Creative Industries, Directorate General for Industrial Policy, Innovation and SMEs, Ministry of Business and Made in Italy).

The objective, in line with the UN's 2023 Agenda, is to investigate the best ways of promoting contemporary and historicised artistic production (monumental and artistic heritage) with the aim of enhancing the territory both in terms of building the social fabric in relation to the goals of sustainable development and in terms of protecting cultural identity in the era of globalisation.

Various mayors and administrators from the Salento region will intervene, bringing their specific testimony, parameterised to their local experiences. They will constitute a sort of case history useful for the Discussion so that the various scientific, cultural, and institutional lectures may find an immediate dialogue with those who act daily for the administration of the territories. A special focus will be placed on digital art and all the related problems of production, fruition, and communication that the incessant development of new technologies imposes on all the industry professionals.

The notion of sustainable art will be illustrated and argued with reference to the theoretical propositions contained in the book entitled 'The Artistic Experience of Tiziano Calcari. Creativity and Mourning in Sustainable Art' by Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico (Milan, Silvana Publishing, 2023), which will be presented at the event. Two works of art by Tiziano Calcari, a contemporary sustainable artist, will also be on display in the conference room.

The following people will be participating in the Discussion, coordinated by the contemporary art critic and sustainable art theorist, Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico: Anna Lisa Tota (Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the Università degli Studi Roma Tre), Marcella Caradonna (President of the ODCEC Milano), Roberto Rosso (Full Professor of Photography at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan), Domenico Nicolamarino (Full Professor of Scenography at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan), Maria Letizia Giorgetti (Professor of Industrial Economics - UNIMI), Francesco Fabbiani (President of the Fondazione Antonietta Viganone of Milano), Fabio Dell’Aversana (President of the SIEDAS), Carlo Poggioli (President of the A.S.C.), Annaluce Licheri (President of the ITALIA IN TESTA), Luigi De Luca (Coordinator of the Brindisi-Lecce-Foggia Biblio-Museum Clusters), Stefano Minerva (President of the Province of Lecce, Mayor of the Municipality of Gallipoli-LE), Fabio Vergine (Mayor of the Municipality of Galatina-LE), Giuseppe Tanisi (Mayor of the Municipality of Taviano-LE), Giorgio Salvatore Toma (Mayor of the Municipality of Matino- LE), Nicola Delle Donne (President of the Confindustria Lecce), Fernando Nazaro (tourism entrepreneur; Vice President, dept. of Tourism, Confindustria Lecce), Giulia Puglia (Councillor for Culture of the Municipality of Nardò-LE), Roberta Iasella Vilei (Councillor for Culture, Tourism and Education of the Municipality of Maglie-LE), Georgia Tramacere (Deputy Mayor of the Municipality of Aradeo-LE), Antonella Miccoli (Councillor for Public Works and Environment for the Municipality of Torchiarolo -BR), Giovanni Licheri and Alida Cappellini (set designers), Guido De Angelis (musician, film producer), James Tumminia (Hollywood film director), Antonella Salvucci (actress; Councillor for the Capri Hollywood International Film Festival), Tiziano Calcari (artist), Paolo Calcari (art curator), Francesca Romana Buffetti (editor-in-chief of the Scenografia & Costume Magazine), Christian Gaston Illan (Beesness Magazine).

The initiative, which benefits from the PR activities of Antonella Stifani, enjoys the patronage of the Fondazione Antonietta Viganone ETS, the Associazione Italiana Scenografi Costumisti e Arredatori (ASC), the Associazione SIEDAS, the Associazione Italia in Testa, the Museo Sigismondo Castromediano di Lecce, the Province of Lecce, the Municipality of Gallipoli (LE), the Municipality of Nardò (LE), the Municipality of Galatina (LE), the Municipality of Maglie (LE), the Municipality of Taviano (LE), the Municipality of Matino (LE), the Municipality of Aradeo (LE), the Municipality of Torchiarolo (BR), and the Confindustria Lecce.

Betting On Italy, Estro Digitale, e-Cinema, Arti e Spettacolo, Beesness magazine are media partners of the event.

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For information:

Associazione Ethicando

E-mail: info@ethicando.it 

Website: www.ethicando.it 

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On Wednesday 29 November 2023, at the Museo del Risorgimento in Milan, the inauguration of the event entitled SUSTAINABLE ART, organised by the Ethicando Association (www.ethicando.it), with the artistic and scientific curatorship of Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico (www.marcoeugeniodigiandomenico.com), was successfully held.

The event consisted of a conference on the sustainability of art, held on 29 November 2023 (10:30-13:00) in the Conference Room of the Museo del Risorgimento, and an exhibition of works (No. 27) by the artist Tiziano Calcari in the Sala Vetri of the same Museum (opening: 29.11.2023, 14:30; closing: 01.12.2023, 17:00; open to the public during Museum opening hours).

The initiative enjoyed the patronage of the Indian Chamber of Commerce for Italy (www.icci.it), the California Surf Museum in Oceanside (CA - USA) (https://surfmuseum.org), the Fondazione Antonietta Viganone ETS (www.fondazioneviganone.com), as well as the media support of Betting on Italy (BOI) (www.bettingonitaly.com), Silvana Editoriale (www.silvanaeditoriale.it), Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre's Rivista Arte e Diritto, Beesness Magazine (www.beesness.it), Estro Digitale.

The event was attended by the Councillor of the Municipality of Milan Filippo Barberis, the Mayor of the Municipality of Irma (BS) Mauro Bertelli, the President of the Foundation Antonietta Viganone ETS Francesco Fabbiani, the journalist Christian Gaston Illan (Beesness Magazine), the manager Severino Ricci representing the California Surf Museum, the coordinator of the Magazine Arte e Diritto Laura Castelli, the artist Tiziano Calcari and his son Paolo, as well as various other personalities from the world of culture and art.

During the conference, the contents of the book 'L'esperienza artistica di Tiziano Calcari. creatività e lutto nell'arte sostenibile' by Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico, published by Silvana Editoriale (2023), were epitomised and argued.

In this editorial work, the main philosophical theorisations on the subject of artistic creativity are reconstructed, from Plato and Aristotle to the present day, and the connections between art and mourning are analysed, both in terms of the elaboration of detachment and in terms of the sustainability of contemporary art.

A book dense with bibliographical references and precise quotations, a valid tool for university training on the subjects of reference, as well as a cultural study for critics and hermeneuts of art.

The very interesting aspect is represented by the circumstance that the various scientific theorisations (philosophical, psychological, sociological, economic, humanistic) find in the analysis of the artistic production of the Brescian artist Tiziano Calcari a concrete synthesis of immediate and fascinating intelligibility.

As, in fact, Di Giandomenico states in the volume's foreword, «This publication stems from a meeting with the artist Tiziano Calcari from Brescia during the great pandemic.

The vision of his works and his existential tales imbued with a deep love for his homeland (Val Trompia) and denied family affections - which find in artistic expression a sort of cathartic resolution - immediately captured my attention, stimulating a scientific reflection on themes that have always been the subject of theoretical elaboration, such as art, beauty, and creativity.

The focus is placed on affective 'detachment', i.e. mourning, understood as the traumatic and/or instantaneous interruption of any affective link (such as the death of a loved one, the end of a great friendship, moving to another place, etc.), and on its relationship with artistic creativity, which can become a privileged tool for metabolising it.

The main driver remains that of the sustainability of contemporary art, which has been the subject of analysis and in-depth study by the writer for almost thirty years, with its various psychological, anthropological, sociological, economic and technical-scientific interpretations [...]

Tiziano Calcari's art is a fine example of sustainable art, not so much for its multimedia style with a 20th-century allure, but rather for its creative and expressive processes, which, oblivious of digital technology, end up in a precisely sustainable artistic contemporaneity, in which art becomes an edifying instrument internal and external to human interiority; a real means of personal and social renewal, which is still thought of by institutions with a linear normative approach, so to speak 'post litteram', devoid of its intrinsic substantial spiral evolution.

This publication also contains images of 50 of Calcari's works of art, documenting his artistic progression and allowing the reader to experience first hand the artist's expressive Beauty, always hoping for a direct observation, which is the bearer of the most complete aesthetic involvement».

The symposium and the analysis of Tiziano Calcari's artistic production provided a valuable opportunity to discuss the sustainability of art, which is at the centre of the contemporary art debate.

Thursday, 31 August 2023 (2.45 - 3.45 pm), on the occasion of the 80th Venice International Film Festival, under the curatorship of the contemporary art critic Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico, the Association Ethicando of Milan and the international communication platform Betting On Italy (BOI), in collaboration with the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo and the Cinematografo magazine, organize the round table discussion entitled SustMOVIE, at the Sala Tropicana 1 (Spazio Cinematografo) of the Hotel Excelsior , Lungomare Guglielmo Marconi n. 41, Lido of Venice.

The event consists of a discussion between cultural personalities and institutions, journalists, artists, entrepreneurs connected in various capacities to the cinematographic world on the issue of sustainability of contemporary cinema, in the light of the profound and continuous changes in the sector, mostly due to the constant development of new technologies. A focus is placed on how film productions can act as a driving force for territorial enhancement also in the international arena.

The Discussion, which is coordinated by Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico, includes the following participants, among others:

• Sen. Roberto Marti, President of the 7th Permanent Commission of the Senate of the Republic (Culture and Cultural Heritage, Public Education, Scientific Research, Entertainment and Sports);
• Davide Milani, President of the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo di Roma;
• Luciano Pettoello Mantovani, Secretary General of the Indian Chamber of Commerce for Italy in Milan;
• Cristina Bolla, President of the Genoa Liguria Film Commission;
• Giulia Puglia, Councillor for Culture of the Municipality of Nardò (LE);
• Severino Ricci, delegate of California Surf Museum in Oceanside (CA - USA);
• Stefano Minerva, president of the Province of Lecce, mayor of the Municipality of Gallipoli (LE);
• Antonio Piteo, vice mayor of the Municipality of Gallipoli (LE);
• Domenico Nicolamarino, set designer, architect, full professor at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan;
• Carlo Poggioli, president of A.S.C. (Associazione Italiana Scenografi Costumisti Arredatori);
• Giovanni Licheri, set designer;
• Alida Cappellini, set designer and actress;
• Fabio Dell'Aversana, president SIEDAS;
• Annaluce Licheri, professor of Legislation and Economics of the Arts and Entertainment at the Academy of Fine Arts in Turin;
• Luciano Barbetta, entrepreneur;
• Pietro Gabrielli, entrepreneur;
• Giulio Bonizzato, entrepreneur;
• Fernando Nazaro, vice president Tourism Section Confindustria Lecce;
• Alessandro Galipoli Di Giandomenico, cultural anthropologist and massmediologist;
• Christian Gaston Illan, Beesness Magazine;
• Giovanni De Santis, E-cinema.

The initiative enjoys the patronage of the Indian Chamber of Commerce for Italy in Milan, the California Surf Museum in Oceanside (CA - USA), some territorial public bodies (Municipality of Nardò, Municipality of Gallipoli, Province of Lecce), as well as the media support of the magazines E-cinema, Beesness, Arti e Spettacolo and Italy2California. It is also part of a series of scientific conferences involving various stops in Italy and abroad (Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, Senate of the Italian Republic, Italian Chamber of Deputies, State University of Milan, Comillas Universidad Pontificia).

We thank Francis Worth and Antonella Stifani for their relational contributions, and Villa Tuscolana in Frascati (Rome) for the sponsorship.

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For information:

Associazione Ethicando (www.ethicando.it)

E-mail: info@ethicando.it

The booking for the event through eventribe must be confirmed by e-mail by the organization.

The cultural initiative "New Frontiers of Sustainable Art. Carlo Caldara & True Story", from an idea and curated by Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico, is organized on May 17, 2017 in Milan at Palazzo Marino (Sala Alessi), from 10:30 am to 1:00 pm, by the ARD&NT Institute (Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera and Politecnico di Milano) (www.ardent-institute.it) and the ETHICANDO Association (www.ethicando.it), in collaboration with the School of New Technologies of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan and the Oltre Confine Association of Anselmo Chizoniti.

It is an interesting time to deepen some aspects of the sustainability of art, a multidisciplinary topic explored by illustrious academics and experts, as well as by various personalities of culture.

In particular, the conference analyzes new expressive modes of the arts in a sustainable way in the era of new technologies, both in terms of bridging (bridges) between the arts and in terms of values, that is in terms of the capacity of the work art of being a bearer of a social message and/or a sustainable cultural-artistic promotion with positive effects on the community and on all the stakeholders involved.

Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico, critic and economist of the sustainability of art, Roberto Favaro, well-known musicologist and chair of the Department of Design and Applied Arts and deputy director of the Accademia di Brera, Marcella Caradonna, President of the Ordine dei Dottori Commercialisti e degli Esperti Contabili in Milan, Roberto Rosso, illustrious photographer and director of the School of New Technologies of Art and of master on photography of the Accademia di Brera, besides prestigious critics, intellectuals and historians attend the event as lecturers.

Filippo Barberis, who has always been sensitive to the issues of valorization of the city of Milan, especially in terms of new opportunities for employment and expression for young people, illustrates his experience as a public administrator in the field.

The central moment of the conference is the promotion of the art of Carlo Caldara present at the event, eclectic physician and artist, who with his work spreads social messages, warnings to humanity in the era of new technologies. After the great success of his artistic exhibition in 2016 within the XXI International Triennial Exhibition in Milan, 2017 and 2018 are for him the years of international development with exhibitions scheduled in Rome at the MACRO, in Venice at the Guatemalan pavilion Of the Venice Biennale 57th International Art Exhibition, in Paris at the Orangerie Museum, and then in China and the USA.

Carlo Caldara is a sustainable artist because his works have an impressive impact on the stakeholders, uses recycled materials, creates bridging between the arts, osmotifying photography, painting, writing, sculpture.
The event is part of the Betting On Italy (BOI) communication platform, directed by Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico, which promotes research, training and media initiatives on issues of valorisation and promotion of made in Italy in the world.
Federica Kluzer participates in carrying for the art works of Carlo Caldara in exhibition at Palazzo Marino during the event.