UDINE – Everything is ready for the XX edition of the Near/Long Festivalin program in Udine from 7 to 12 May, edited by Paola Colombo, Franca Rigoni And Álen Loreti with the advice of the Scientific Committee chaired by Nicola Gasbarro. During the festival, on Saturday 11 May at the Teatro Nuovo Giovanni da Udine, the evening event dedicated to Terzani Prize 2024.
The countdown will be marked by a busy calendar of events – preview, from Friday 3 to Monday 6 May in Udine, in the name of art and photography: starting, Friday 3 May at 6.00 pm in the Albicocco art print shop, from inauguration of the exhibition of engravings by Giuseppe Zigaina “The metamorphosis between inks and anatomies”edited by Francesca Agostinelli And Gianluca Albicoccowhich is part of the “Zigaina 100. Anatomy of an image” initiatives, a project by Francesca Agostinelli and Vanja Strukelj, promoted by the Municipality of Cervignano del Friuli with the support of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region. Visitable until June 29th from Monday to Saturday from 9am to 12pm and 4pm to 6pm and on Sundays from 10am to 12pm, the exhibition projects us into Zigaina’s ‘artistic gesture’, when at the moment of engraving the plate her hand becomes a needle and meets her eye-brain. The artist then enters another reality, where landscapes become anatomy and where vineyards and crops, with the lagoon on the horizon, are dug into a depth that becomes – he says – “other”. From this depth, Zigaina can observe insects swarming in war-torn bodies. He sees them transform into nocturnal butterflies that fly over fertile wheat fields, and over Redipuglia, while they lay eggs ready to hatch in future wars. The 100 years of Zigaina are also the 50 years of work of Corrado Albicocco, who in this exhibition remembers his Master.
Fabiana Cioni’s photographic exhibition “Verso l’Angelo Pavone” opens on Saturday 4 May at the Make Exhibition Space in Udine at 6.30 pm. Trip to Kurdistan together with the Yazidi community”. With the photojournalist Fabiana Cioni the researcher will intervene Federico Venturini, expected readings by Francesca Ria. The exhibition will remain open to visitors during near/far until May 12th, from 5.00 pm to 7.30 pm and Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th May from 10.30 am to 12.30 pm and from 5.00 pm to 7.30 pm. The voices of the Yazidi women who survived the massacre at the hands of Daesh on the night of 3 August 2014, and hunted for days under the scorching sun, without water, without food, on the sacred mountain of Shengal, accompany us in the space of the exhibition where rituals and sacred landscapes of Kurdistan-Iraq alternate with rubble. In the region inhabited by the Yazidis, the sacredness attributed to nature emerges on a symbolic level in collective rites, people pay homage to the trees, the architecture, the earth. In connection with the exhibition itinerary, a meeting on “The resistance of the Yazidi people in Shengal” is scheduled for Monday 6 May, with Fabiana Cioni, Riccardo Pinosa and Angela Galli. It will be an opportunity to tell the story trip to Kurdistan together with the Yazidi community that survived the 74th genocide and what time he experiences a democratic autonomy project in Shengal, also told by Zerocalcare in his graphic novel No Sleep Till Shengal (Terzani Prize 2023). The Yezidi community had to count over 5 thousand deaths and 500 thousand refugees, who despite having contributed to the defeat of the Caliphate, are continually attacked by Turkish drones. A people who do not give up and do not give up on being reborn, continuing to base their resistance on the values of female emancipation and participatory democracy.
And on Monday 6 May, at 6.30 pm, “Ritorno in città. The future of Udine’s urban villages”: on display are the projects of the students of the Master’s Degree Course in Architecture at the University of Udine, edited by Alberto Cervesato. It will be open to visitors until May 12th from 5pm to 7.30pm, and on May 11th and 12th from 10am to 7.30pm. There is an intermediate city – between the Udine of the historic center and the peri-urban Udine – made up of villages historically born from the hybridization between urban culture and rural culture. THE projects by students of the Architectural Design Laboratory of the University of Udine, led by teachers Giovanni La Varra, Christina Conti and Alberto Cervesatopropose a critical vision, which envisages a process of transformation and revitalization of these “urban voids”, in view of a gradual recovery of the social and economic fabric of significant parts of the city.
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