Cultural news article
The second initiative of the LeFabbricheFest program continues with another great success, the arts exhibition – organized by the Fata Morgana association, with the artistic direction of Alice Titone and Beniamino Biondi – which takes place at the Fabbriche, in Agrigento, with appointments until September 21, 2024.
A first edition of the festival that immediately emerged as one of the most important in Sicily, with the presence of national and international authors, according to a criterion of choice that seeks to explore important themes and cultural facets through the lens of narration, with the participants they have the opportunity to ask questions directly to the authors, making each event a unique and engaging experience.
The testimonials of the festival in the national press suggest subsequent editions which, according to the intentions of the two artistic directors, will involve other types of events, within a unique framework that will become a stable event for the city of Agrigento, designated capital of culture for 2025.
The choice of the well-known journalist Francesco Terracina for the second appointment was appreciated by a large and qualified audience, discussing the book published by Laterza with the title “Mal di Sicilia” which tells of an island in backlight, far from stereotypes and oleographs of image, through 14 portraits of Sicilians who have experienced this strange feelings of painful attraction towards Sicily.
“Between the worn walls of the ships, depicted on Franco Fasulo’s canvases exhibited in the rooms of Le Fabbriche – the writer Francesco Terracina tells us – and the discussion of “Mal di Sicilia”, in the courtyard, it seems that the rusts of the island have make an appointment. The creaks of Sicily are a reminder, in the sense of invitation and warning. Going from bow to stern, on this floating land, we end up seeing distances, the ones we are going towards and the ones we are leaving behind.”
At the end, the two artistic directors Beniamino Biondi and Alice Titone declare: “A second appointment full of reflections and comparisons in a reconstruction of an unusual Sicily. A compelling dialogue that explored the issues of legality and justice in a path that linked together the loneliness of Gaetano Costa, the novel of Livia De Stefani’s phenotype and the disillusioned fighter Mauro Rostagno. A Sicilian Sickness that thrives on attraction and aversion, bordering on an atavistic and sometimes inexplicable melancholy.”
Now the great wait is for Sunday 21 July with the presentation of the book “Sea Paradise” by Repubblica cultural journalist Eleonora Lombardo.
