The first part of Expo Arte Messina 2024a widespread exhibition with the artistic direction of Gianfranco Pistoriocontinues on Friday 11 October, at 9.00 pm, at the Rectorate with the Fikissimi show; Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th October, at the Salone degli Specchi in Palazzo dei Leoni, meeting with Elena Di Capita, the first Italian to use the Gyotaku technique.
Elena Di Capita and Adriana Profeta, researcher at the Institute for Biological Resources and Marine Biotechnologies of the National Research Council, will hold a meeting entitled Gyotaku and Science: how art becomes a tool of knowledge. «Gyotaku – explains Elena Di Capita – is an ancient Japanese printing technique used by fishermen to document their catch: type, size; over time it has become a very complex art form to create.” «We will talk – adds Adriana Profeta – about what Gyotaku in its current state can represent: a contact between art and science. We will do it from a scientific point of view and Elena from an artistic and conceptual point of view.”
During the day, Wunderkammer – The Chamber of Wonders will also be presented, a project curated by Simone Cappello, researcher at CNR – IRBIM, and Raffaele Patania, in which Gyotaku and other research material will be exhibited.
Furthermore, on Sunday 13 October, from 5pm to 8pm, Elena Di Capita will lead a workshop dedicated to Goyataku at the Salone degli Specchi. To participate you can contact the number 349 5883269.
Also on Sunday 13th, at 6.00 pm, at the Cloisters of the Archbishopric: Sikanie by Nicola Calì and Dario Tomasello, with Nicola Calì, Carlo Piciché and Federica Giglia. Live music performed by Carmelo Saterno. Directed by Nicola Calì.
The program of Expo Arte Messina 2024:
Saturday 12 October:
from 10.00, in the Cannizzaro Hall of the University of Messina: Introduction of the updated procedures on the new competition platform by Tiziana Campus, CNAPPCN secretary advisor;
from 11.45, in the Cannizzaro Hall of the University of Messina: presentation of the project The new Institute of the Student Citadel of Bagheria, curated by AM3 Architetti Associati of Palermo;
from 5.00 pm, at the Salone degli Specchi: seminars organized by Simone Cappello, IRBIM-CNR Researcher and Raffaele Patania, anatomical designer “The Chamber of Wonders – nature in a room”; Adriana Profeta, IRBIM-CNR Researcher / Elena Di Capita, artist “Gyotaku and Science: how art becomes a tool of knowledge”; exhibition of the finds from the newly created Wunderkammer – Proto Naturalistic Museum F. Costa with the anatomical models of Ars Anatomica by Raffaele Patania and the works of the artists Elena Di Capita and Fulvia Francesca Rocca;
at 5.30 pm, at the “Giacomo Longo” Regional Library: presentation of the book Mare sui muri (Edas Editore, 2021) by Giovanni Ammendolia, Franz Riccobono, Mauro Cavallaro.
Sunday 13 October:
at 4.00 pm, at the Salone degli Specchi, opening of seminars by Dr. Alfonso Lo Cascio regional president of BC Sicily and Dr. Tommasa Siragusa director of the Regional University Library “G. Longo” of Messina, with speakers Salvatore Giacobbe and Michela D’Angelo of the University of Messina on “Jeanne Villepreux Power between art and science”; from 5.00pm to 8.00pm: Gyotaku technique artistic workshop curated by Elena Di Capita;
at 6.00 pm, at the Cloisters of the Archbishopric: Sikanie by Nicola Calì and Dario Tomasello, with Nicola Calì, Carlo Piciché and Federica Giglia. Live music performed by Carmelo Saterno. Directed by Nicola Calì;
at 9.00 pm, in the atrium of Palazzo Zanca: concert with Francesco Tusa on violin and Alessia Pitali on harp, organized by Ars Nova.
Until Saturday 12 October, from 09.00 to 12.00, at the Dogana it is possible to visit Chasing freedom, an installation curated by the Order of Architects in collaboration with the Culture Commission of Engineers, with the works of Antonello Bonanno Conti;
Until Sunday 13 October, from 09.30 to 13.00 and from 18.00 to 24.00, at the Chamber of Commerce it is possible to visit Artifices qui facit usus adest. Experience is what makes artists curated by Gianfranco Pistorio with the works of Cosimo Allera, Marcello Balistrieri, Marc Boyer, Andrea Calabrò, Felice Canonico, Lorenzo Chinnici, Pino Coletta, Giuseppe Crupi, Diego Dattola, Francesco D’Ascola, Michele D’Avenia, Fabio Di Bella, Massimo Di Bella, Laurent Folco, Maurizio Gemelli, Luigi Ghersi, Emilio Greco, Mantilla, Pasquale Marino, Giuseppe Migneco, Miro Persolja, Salvo Russo, Eric Rechou, Giuditta Rustica, Dimitri Salonia, Antonio Sciacca, Antonio Sierra, Francesca Spanio, Ranieri Wanderlingh;
Suggestions from the Borghi and Borgo Vivo, curated by the architect Michele Palamara of the Rete dei Borghi; Sicilian cross to America and Messina (S)Velata curated by ArcheoClub d’Italia.
Expo Arte Messina 2024 is organized in partnership with the Order of Architects and Fondazione Architetti nel Mediterraneo of Messina. With the patronage of local and national institutions, including: Department of Sport, Tourism, Entertainment – Sicily Region, Metropolitan City of Messina, Municipality of Messina, Municipality of Reggio Calabria, University of Messina, Chamber of Commerce, Archdiocese of Messina – Lipari – S Lucia del Mela, Provincial Order of Pharmacists of Messina, Regional Library of Messina “Giacomo Longo”, Network of Messina Villages, AMMI, BC Sicily, Chamber Orchestra Association of Messina, Order of Engineers, AMSI Association of Italian Doctors and Writers, Fidapa – BPW Italy Messina Capo Peloro Section, ArcheoClub d’Italia, Eikon Museum, Hellenic Community of the Strait, AltaFiumara Experience, ETS National BioArchitecture Institute, ARS Nova Association, LiberArchè Cultural Association, Forum for Messina, Italian Institute of Bioethics, State Artistic High School ” Ernesto Basile”, AIIG – Italian Association of Geography Teachers Messina Section. Technical sponsors Salotto Fellini, Malfi Assicurazioni & Finanza, Reqube.