From 20 June to 4 July and from 19 to 26 September, the Carlo Zauli Museum in Faenza presents the third edition of the Festival of gullies and blue clays, with the aim of enhancing the geographical area of the “blue clay gullies”, as defined by Leonardo da Vinci in the Hammer Code, between the territories of Faenza, Brisighella, Riolo Terme, Castel Bolognese.
This year too the Festival offers a large en plein air programme: exhibitions, workshops and performances of visual arts, theatre, dance, poetic readings, concerts, installations between architecture and design, food and wine tastings, yoga and Biogymnastics® workshops, cultural trekking, meetings related to environmental sustainability, involving schools, academies, courses of training, individuals, groups, cultural associations, with the aim of creating a real Cultural Park of the Calanques, whose symbol – the Pavilion of the Blue Clays designed by Studio Bartoletti Cicognani – has been installed in the Dinosaur Panoramic Point (via Pideura , halfway between Oasi and Bulzaga).
The third edition of the Festival of gullies and blue clays will see some international presenceslike the Japanese Noriko Yamaguchi, among the artists protagonists of the Azzurro fragili exhibition, together with Francesco Nonni, Gilberto Bucci, Carlo Zauli, Giovanni Pini, Sergia Avveduti, Cesare Reggiani, Barbara Deponti, Marco Samorè, Andrea Salvatori, Monica Zauli, Jacopo Casadei , Silvia Chiarini, Marco Ceroni, Oscar Dominguez, Gaia Carboni.
The Colombian sculptor Juan Esteban Sandoval will propose, in collaboration with the Greek musician George Moraitis, The sounds of the Earth. Exploration of the Calanques – sound and claya performance with sound sculptures, while compatriots Zoe Drakopoulou, Petros Roussos, Iannis Sioutis, will create an unprecedented traveling performance, REBEARTH, a performative action supported by the Culture Moves Europe programme, a project financed by the European Union which makes Greece truly guest country of this edition of the festival.
There will then be the participation of Save the Children, who will create a highly original activity dedicated to children, while a reminder of the Festival will then be held in September with the presence of Enrico Malatesta, who applies his work to the sound investigation of the production of artefacts in ceramics, and by the internationally renowned ceramic sculptor Alfredo Gioventù.
The gullies are what remains of the sandy seabed of the prehistoric sea from millions of years ago and are structured as ridges cloaked in fragrant broom, orchids and a species that grows only among these clays, the Cretaceous artemisia: a territory that includes panoramic terraces, breathtaking views, precious clays, sources of thermal water, vineyards and cultivations of high level and which is the subject of countless stories, narratives and legends. In just a few square kilometres, this area contains naturalistic and cultural wonders, and is a source of inspiration for many artists, in particular for Carlo Zauli, one of the most important ceramists and sculptors of the twentieth century, who dedicated a large part of his work to these lands, citing them plastically in his monumental sculptures.
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