Interview with the Artist Sara Lovari

With this phrase that contains the essence of the work and spirit of the Casentino artist Sara Lovari, today I invite you to get to know her better and discover her artistic world where shapes blend with colours and emotions are transformed into works of art. With Sara, creativity and imagination have the power to transform reality, and to transport you to a universe of beauty and poetry, where each work is an emotion that takes shape.

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Impruneta, Land of Cats… in Terracotta!

Small monochrome cats emerge from small cracks in the walls, climb on canopies, hide in the crevices of the village. Some enjoy the slow life of the Chianti villages, resting on the eaves while others chase oil lamps and observe birds. They are 21 and have a factor that unites them: they are made of traditional terracotta, immobile in their laying despite the dynamism they suggest.

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The ‘Origins’ Seen by Young Artists on Exhibition at the Marzocco’s

The link between the world of art and design and La Marzocco has been solid for several decades. This year an important collaboration has taken place with the International School of Comics in Florence. The exhibition hosts the works created by the participants of the last Illustration Marathon, held on 25 March at the Accademia.

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Locus Womb: The Tattoo Hub is in Mugello

Works of art, limited edition sneakers, design and modern style objects and furniture, customized vintage t-shirts and jackets, drawings hung on the walls and an open laboratory where tattoo artists create their works on the skin of customers. This is the atmosphere you breathe upon entering Locus Womb. A festival of colours, sounds and objects that has nothing to envy to a US tattoo convention.

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Exhibitions and Events at the Museo Civico di Palazzo della Penna in Perugia

The exhibition is a tribute that the Municipality of Perugia intended to pay to the painter from The Marche region, a pivotal figure in Perugia’s historical artistic panorama at the turn of the century. The project focuses attention on a particularly fertile period of Perugia’s figurative culture through the exhibition of lesser-known or even unpublished works and documents from the museum’s storerooms and important private collections.

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Casentino Creative Centre, the 3Cs stand for …

The Centre is structured as an educational environment and a training space open to people of all ages, from different backgrounds and cultures. It’s a place to develop one’s sociability and exercise one’s creativity, participating in the proposed activities and enjoying this meeting place every day.The activities are very diverse in order to satisfy all different interests and needs, both for young and elderly people with whom the centre also collaborates through an active generational exchange.

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An unpublished Sanzio

Among the novelties, the scientific color reconstruction of the first documented work of Raphael, the Coronation of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino, edited by Francesco Paolo Di Teodoro and Filippo Camerota, visible in the exhibition through a digital installation produced by the Museo Galileo in Florence, and the scientific account of the important restoration work, by the Central Restoration Institute (ICR), the banner of the Brotherhood of SS. Trinità, the only mobile work of the artist left in Umbria, now located at the Municipal Art Gallery of Città di Castello in the same room of the “Martirio di San Sebastiano’, by Luca Signorelli, one of the most studied artists by Raffaello in his youth. The restoration has allowed to fill some of the gaps present in the work and left ‘exposed’ in the previous intervention of 2006, always edited by the ICR.

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The Art Hotel Lucerna, a window on the world (and the Tyrrhenian Sea)

A historic and ground-breaking Riviera hotel, the Lucerna was founded in Castiglione della Pescaia in 1958 by Nello Raffi, Laura’s grandfather. In the same year, just think, that the famous Riva del Sole hotel opened. It was in 1972 that her parents Gino and Brunella started working so much there that the young Laura spent her youth here, breathing the air and life of the hotel in the management work as well as in the extraordinary ambience of encounters and acquaintances with the legendary characters of the time.

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Jutta Wilhelm Coerper – Artist and Designer

Jutta was born in Coblenz in the Rhineland in Germany during the War, and went to study art and design in Dusseldorf.  She had always dreamed of leaving Germany to travel, and spent a year abroad studying and working in Rome.  When, after 6 years of art school, the possibility to spend a period in South Africa working for a textile company presented itself, the young Jutta jumped at the opportunity. 

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