Isola isole insulae
Incontri e riflessioni al suono della parola isola
Island: the word conjures up isolated places we nonetheless seek to reach, touching the realm of the real and the imaginary, the concrete and the abstract. It inspires a myriad of artistic, cultural, linguistic, philosophical and musical reflections, a flow of sensations and stimuli that spring and spread from an idea and a place. Remo Salvadori is our guide to this infinite world, drawing on a project he carried out on Isola Comacina, an island that the King of Belgium gifted to Italy in 1920, and which was then entrusted to the Brera Academy to create a place for artistic and cultural events.
The Academy’s project for developing Isola Comacina was guided by the atmospheric photographs of the island taken by Paola di Bello. Remo Salvadori, artist and lecturer, worked for two consecutive years with Academy students on the concept of island, as a destination and meeting place, gathering the works of 80 young artists. He then set about involving more than 50 writers, asking them to contribute a piece of writing about the idea of island.
The result is a unique publication that alternates text and images, combining an educational programme with artistic projects, and bringing together poetry and conceptual developments, reflections and visual pleasure. The contributors include Alfredo Albiani, Flavio Ambrosini, Stefano Andi, Haim Baharier, Susanna Janina Baumgartner, Marco Biraghi, Sofia Boffardi, Roberto Borghi, Enric Bou, Giovanni Bruno e Francesca Varalli, Angelo Capasso, Letizia Cariello, Alessandro Carrera, Laura Cherubini, Antonella Commellato, Francesco Correggia, Bettina Della Casa, Paola Di Bello, Alessandro Di Pietro, Roberto Favaro, Rachele Ferrario, Massimo Venturi Ferriolo, Giuliano Fuortes, Romano Gasparotti, Daniele Geminiani, Giovanni Iovane, Gérard-Georges Lemarie, Sandro Levi, Elisabetta Longari, Giorgio Magni, Marco Magni, Olivia Mair Cacciari, Daniele Nani, Giovanni Ozzola, Loredana Parmesani, Gianluca Poldi, Isabella Puliafito, Elena Quarestani, Roberto Rossi Roberti, Carla Sanguineti, Monica Scaccabarozzi, Cesare Serratto, Tetsuro Shimizu, Pier Luigi Tazzi, Ida Terracciano, Roberto Tresoldi, Francesca Valli and Luca Vitone.
Textual index
L’isola in mezzo all’acqua — Alfredo Albiani
Stop. L’arte di fermarsi — Flavio Ambrosini
L’isola dei maestri comacini — Stefano Andi
L’isola e lo shamìr — Haim Baharier
Luogo di elezione Susanna — Janina Baumgartner
L’isola — Marco Biraghi
Peregrinazione continua — Sofia Boffardi
Ogigia Comacina — Roberto Borghi
Il tesoro delle isole — Enric Bou
Ilare nella tristezza, triste nell’ilarità. Isola Comacina — Giovanni Bruno e Francesca Varalli
Stallo, isola del vuoto — Angelo Capasso
Prospettiva di un’isola è l’esercizio dello sguardo — Letizia Cariello
Il sole non si può guardare — Alessandro Carrera
Isola/Giardino/Labirinto — Laura Cherubini
Abitare poeticamente la Terra: una cosmologia del mondo aperto — Antonella Commellato
Ritrovare isole di un dire originario — Francesco Correggia
Happy Accidents — Bettina Della Casa
Come nella fotografia l’isola appare e si rivela nella luce — Paola Di Bello
^, Stop, fermarsi, la fuga , il riposo — Alessandro Di Pietro
Isola sonora — Roberto Favaro
La parola isola — Rachele Ferrario
Nostalgia dell’isola, nostalgia della dea — Massimo Venturi Ferriolo
Insula — Giuliano Fuortes
L’isola dell’arte — Romano Gasparotti
... ho chiamato isola — Daniele Geminiani
Isole del Mediterraneo — Giovanni Iovane
Memorie insulari — Gérard-Georges Lemarie
L’sola di Wada — Sandro Levi
Approdo all’isola — Elisabetta Longari
L’isola della stabilità — Giorgio Magni
Isole parlate — Marco Magni
Piccole sono le rocce che sorgono dal profondo — Olivia Mair Cacciari
Isola e monade — Daniele Nani
Isola: la cima di una montagna — Giovanni Ozzola
Quando l’isola trova il mare — Loredana Parmesani
L’isola, come ritaglio e come porgersi — Gianluca Poldi
Un solo piccolissimo balzo, chiudere gli occhi, senza strizzarli — Isabella Puliafito
All’inizio non era un’isola — Elena Quarestani
L’isola è il confine — Roberto Rossi Roberti
Ascoltatemi, isole — Carla Sanguineti
Agire sulla terra relazionarsi con il cielo — Monica Scaccabarozzi
Il blu della distanza — Cesare Serratto
La pittura è come un’isola — Tetsuro Shimizu
Isole, ancora — Pier Luigi Tazzi
Prima di essere isola è Lario — Ida Terracciano
Il corpo dell’isola — Roberto Tresoldi
L’isola è quasi raggiunta — Francesca Valli
Isole recluse — Luca Vitone
Remo Salvadori
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