OTHER EVENTS
Breakfast Conversations
Where Art meets Music
Curated by Carlotta Sorba and Carlo Orsini
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CARLOTTA SORBA
A specialist in 19th century Italian and European history, teaching Contemporary History at the European University Institute (Florence) and the University of Padua. She has worked and written widely on diverse aspects of cultural production (theatre, music, literature) in the relationship between society and the politics of the time.
CARLO ORSINI
Born in 1961, he graduated as an architect cum laude from the Politecnico of Milan in 1998. Driven by an intuitive and sensual feeling for art, by a sense of space and the search for the correlation between various fields of knowledge he is, as well as practicing as an architect, an editor of live art, curator of private collections and artistic director of cultural projects.
25/7
Arcangelo Sassolino
Harmonic Fractures
with Massimiliano Tonelli and Carlo Orsini
Arcangelo Sassolino is a contemporary Italian artist known for his innovative use of mechanical systems and physical forces in sculpture and installation art. His work often incorporates industrial materials – steel, glass, wood and metals – that are subjected to extreme conditions like compression, tension, friction and movement.
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Massimiliano Tonelli (born 1978) has a degree in Communication Sciences from Siena; from 1999 to 2011 he was director of Exibart. He is currently director of Artribune, which he founded in 2011. From 2013 to 2021 he was editorial director of Gambero Rosso.
He has moderated and taken part as a speaker in conferences, juries and seminars; he has taught at centres of higher education including IED, Rome University Tor Vergata, Garrone Foundation, Link Campus University, the 24-hour Business School and University of Rome. He was a Master of Arts lecturer at Luiss and Master of Food and Wine Journalism at Gambero Rosso. Currently he is adjunct professor at IULM in Milan where he teaches cultural publishing.
Bar Costa – 10 A.M.
27/7
Ilaria Bonacossa and Marzia Migliora
Obsession: Moby Dick. A major exhibition in Genoa
with Carlotta Sorba
Curator and art critic Ilaria Bonacossa is Director of Palazzo Ducale in Genoa. From 2022 to 2024 she was director of National Museum of Digital Art in Milan, as well as head of Artissima, the International Contemporary Art Fair in Turin from 2017 to 2021.
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Marzia Migliora is a visual artist whose multidisciplinary work spans photography, video, sound, performance, installation and drawing. At the centre of her work is memory used as a tool to understand the present and to give voice to individual and collective stories, often forgotten or marginalised. Her work deals with historical, social and economic themes, frequently linked to the production and distribution of natural resources and food , questioning the dynamics of exploitation and inequality that define our reality.
Bar Illice – 10 A.M.
29/7
Jacopo Benassi
Musica analfabeta
with Carlo Antonelli
Jacopo Benassi is an Italian photographer and artist. Active in the underground music scene since the late 1980s he developed over time a personal visual language and direction based on the use of flash photography and a raw and instinctive aesthetic. His work spans photography, performance, painting and installation art, always maintaining an intimate and material approach. He has published many books and fanzines. He lives and works in La Spezia.
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Carlo Antonelli is an eclectic cultural producer, expert in music, contemporary culture and transmedia trends. From 1993 to 2002 he was head of the recording house Sugar Music and from 2003 to 2011 director of the monthly Italian edition of Rolling Stone. In 2011 he moved to Condé Nast to direct Wired Italia and then the men’s magazine G2 Italia and launching G2 Freak Out Festival.
Hummingbird Bar – 10 A.M.
1/8
Sandro Cappelletto
A conversation about Mozart and Da Ponte
with Carlotta Sorba
Writer and music historian, Sandro Cappelletto is the creator of radio and television programmes. He writes for musical theatre in collaboration with many contemporary composers and has published essays and books on Mozart, Farinelli and Wagner.
Bar Illice – 10 A.M.
3/8
Alberto Mario Banti
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The Beatles: reception and legacy
with Carlotta Sorba
Alberto Mario Banti is one of the most respected Italian historians. He is currently professor at the University of Pisa, a member of the Acccademia dei Lincei and has extensively researched the Italian Risorgimento and European nationalism. In recent years he has worked on contemporary mass culture devoting particular attention to the youth subculture of the 1960s and 70s and the cultural-political significance of rock music.
Hummingbird Bar – 10 A.M.
