CARRARA – “Chiara Tedde and Maia Milani from the Gentileschi art high school have won the scholarship promoted by the Rotary Club Massa-Carrara, as part of the competition on the theme “marble and its people”. Chiara and Maia ranked first ex aequo, obtaining a scholarship worth 250 euros each.” The high school staff proudly announces it.
Chiara Tedde from class 2 C created a work entitled “Forgetting is a fault… ignoring is a damage”. “This work – explains the young author – represents how the unstoppable need for profit corrodes the mountains and the people themselves… forgetting is a fault, ignoring is damage. Marble is the spirituality of the people just as gold is for the world economy. Every buyer must know that behind every crumb of marble there are many souls and human lives that are affected and need to communicate their passion. Marble knows how to rework ideas, transforming them into reality.”
Maia Milani from class 3 BC created a watercolor and pencil work entitled “Land of the quarrymen”. The main subject of the work is a group of quarrymen taking a break from work, while they look down on the quarry in front. We understand from the clothes they wear that they belong to another era; “These are simple men, or so I imagine them – says the young artist -, who practiced essentially manual work, hard, exhausting and too often lethal. But in this close-up we do not see the fatigue of working in the quarry, but rather a moment of pause, in which the quarrymen, with their hands chapped and white with dust, are unwrapping their lunch. We cannot see their faces, but we understand, from the inclination of their heads and their posture, that they are looking at the landscape below, and thus guide us to observe it with them. In a world where time passes ever faster, where the pace of life has increased drastically, even the earth is undergoing increasingly less sustainable transformation processes. The contrast between the slow and hard pace of work of the old quarrymen, and the fast pace of excavation of the machines, makes us reflect on how much we are losing awareness of the relationship with the land that hosts us”.
