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On Monday, May 27, 2024, 09:30-18:00, the Pontifical University Comillas in Madrid in collaboration with the University of Milan (Department of Private Law and History of Law) and the University of Florence (Department of Legal Sciences) is organizing the event entitled “SuART 2024. Sustainable Art 2024” conceived and directed artistically by art critic Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico, and academically by José Luis Rey Pérez (professor of philosophy of law at the Pontifical University Comillas in Madrid).

The event consists of a conference on the sustainability of contemporary art in the digital age, with a focus on related legal, economic, and socio-philosophical aspects, as well as of the solo exhibition by the artist Antonietta Viganone (27.05.2024 – 10.06.2024), curated by Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico and organized in collaboration with the Fondazione Antonietta Viganone in Milan, chaired by Francesco Fabbiani.

SuART is an international interdisciplinary scholarly and artistic event conceived by art critic Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico on an annual basis, consisting of a conference and a solo exhibition by a contemporary artist.

In an attempt to delineate the different declinations of the notion of ‘sustainability of art’, which is in continuous semiological evolution and has been increasingly the subject of attention over the last two decades by institutions, philosophers, sociologists, academics, sector professionals and artists, a twofold objective is pursued. On the one hand, we want to investigate the creative languages and promotional methods of contemporary art productions in the digital era, both public (museums, governmental and local cultural institutions, etc.) and private (galleries, private art foundations, auction houses, web system, etc.). On the other hand, we want to highlight and analyse the related aspects of legal regulation and economic-financial dynamics based on the EU guidelines with a focus on the legal systems of the countries of the participating university/institutional partners.

The 2024 edition has a scientific committee consisting of: Albina Candian (full professor of comparative private law at the UNIMI), Laura Castelli (associate professor of private law at the UNIMI), Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico (contemporary art critic, sustainable art theorist), Sara Landini (full professor of economic law at the UNIFI), Miguel Martínez Muñoz (professor of market regulation at the Pontifical University Comillas in Madrid), José Luis Rey Pérez (professor of philosophy of law at the Pontifical University Comillas in Madrid), Abel Benito Veiga Copo (dean of the ICADE Faculty of Law at the Pontifical University Comillas in Madrid).

Speaking at the conference are academics and experts in the field from various disciplinary, academic and professional backgrounds: Enrique Sanz Giménez-Rico, S. J (Rector of the the Pontifical University Comillas in Madrid), Abel Veiga Copo (Dean of the ICADE Faculty of Law at the Pontifical University Comillas in Madrid), Rafael Mateu de Ros (Partner at Ramón y Cajal Abogados in Madrid), Juan Antonio Badillo Arias (Professor of Mercantile Law at the University Alcalá de Henares), Adolfo Autric (lawyer), Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico (art critic, theorist of the sustainability of art), José Luis Rey Pérez (professor of philosophy of law at the Pontifical University Comillas in Madrid), Franceso Fabbiani (president of the Fondazione Antonietta Viganone in Milan), Domenica D'Elia (board member of the Fondazione Antonietta Viganone in Milan), Elisabetta Falck (president of the Associazione 100 Amici del Libro in Milan), Federico de Montalvo Jääskelainen (full professor of constitutional law at the the Pontifical University Comillas in Madrid), Albina Candian (full professor of comparative private law at the UNIMI), Laura Castelli (associate professor of private law at the UNIMI), Víctor Luis de Nicolás de Nicolás (professor of economics of innovation at the Pontifical University Comillas in Madrid), Maria Letizia Giorgetti (professor of industrial economics at the UNIMI), Andrea Caloni (research fellow in private law at the UNIMI), Federica Gattillo (PhD candidate in comparative private law at the UNIM), Christian Gaston Illan (Beesness Magazine), Ivan Giordano (Vice President of the ADR Observatory), Ana de la Cueva Fernández (President of the Spanish Patrimonio Nacional).

The event includes the solo exhibition by the artist Antonietta Viganone (No. 27 artworks) from May 27 to June 10, 2024.

Antonietta Viganone (Borgolavezzaro (NO) il 16 dicembre 1928 - Milano il 27 giugno 2022) carries out artistic studies in architecture (Politecnico di Milano), painting (Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, Domenico Cantatore school) and engraving (Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, with master Luciano De Vita). She teaches artistic disciplines at high schools and secondary education institutions.

In the sixties of the last century, she married the publisher Franco Sciardelli (Palermo, 1933 – Milan, 2015), with whom she also maintains a deep artistic and cultural partnership.

Since 1958 she has been working with all the chalcographic techniques and with lithography, and has created over 500 works, using the most accredited printing houses (including Sciardelli, Upiglio, Bandini, Campi, La Spirale and Il Foglio of Milan).

She also brilliantly engages in painting and sculpture, creating more than 200 works of art. She creates the stele in memory of Marshal Chief Cross of Honor Daniele Ghione, victim of the terrorist act in An Nassiriya (Iraq) on 12 November 2003, permanently exhibited in a public place in Finale Ligure (SV) and inaugurated in 2004 in the presence of various institutional authorities.

She is the author of illustrations and engravings for artist books, also promoting literary works by great personalities of the culture of the ‘900, including Leonardo Sciascia.

She participates in exhibitions and events of international importance, including the Milan Engraving Triennial (Editions: I, 1969; IV, 1980; VI, 1990; VII, 1994), the III Biennial of contemporary xylography of Carpi (1984) , the Xilon Italiana Triennale of Genoa (1995), the V International Exhibition of Chalcography “Black and White” of Modica (2000), the International Biennial Exhibition “Grafica ed ex Libris” (Editions: X, 2011; XII, 2015), the II Edition of the Woodcut Competition “Ugo Maffi – City of Lodi” (2014).

Her works are acquired as part of the heritage of important cultural institutions, including the “Parisi – Valle” Civic Museum in Maccagno con Pino and Veddasca (VA), the Central Library of the Sicilian Region “Alberto Bombace” in Palermo, the Library of the “Giorgio de Marchis Bonanni d’Ocre” in L’Aquila, the Sormani Library in Milan, the Museum of Contemporary Chalcography “Le Due Matrici” in Modica (RG), the Xylography Museum in Carpi (MO), the Civic Collection of “Achille Bertarelli” prints in Milan, the “A.S. Pushkin” in Moscow (RUSSIA).

In the last months of her life she decided to donate her artistic and real estate assets to a testamentary foundation (registered in the RUNTS on 15 September 2022), which, in addition to holding and enhancing the collection of artworks by Antonietta Viganone, carries out research, training, communication and promotion in the field of contemporary art.

Raffaele Caccavo (lawyer, supervisory body of the Viganone Foundation) and Barbara Minisini (certified public accountant, auditor of the Viganone Foundation) will also be present at the opening of the exhibition.

Suart 2024, which enjoys the patronage of the Osservatorio ADR, 100 Amici del Libro Association in Milan, Ethicando Association in Milan, is promoted in the media by Betting On Italy (BOI), Beesness Magazine, Estro Digitale.

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For information:

Paloma De Benito

E-mail: pbenito@comillas.edu 

E-mail: web@fondazioneviganone.com 

E-mail: info@bettingonitaly.com 

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https://eventos.comillas.edu/117505/

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ETHICANDO Association organises the personal exhibition entitled RAUL VS BASQUIAT by the artist RAUL, at its ETHICANDO GALLERY exhibition spaces, Viale Luigi Majno n. 38 - 20129 Milan, under the artistic curatorship of Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico.

RAUL, an international artist of Abruzzese origin, currently living between London (UK) and Ibiza (ES), with artworks exhibited all over the world (Europe, USA, Japan, Australia, China), creatively dwells on the art of a giant of the 20th century, Jean-Michel Basquiat.

The New York artist came into contact in the 1980s with the Pescara-based gallerist Cesare Manzo, of whom after about twenty years RAUL became the main collaborator for more than a decade and then the heir to an immense relational heritage and experiences that involved the main artists and critics of the twentieth century, not only Italian.

Ethicando Gallery, from 10 to 14 April 204, hosts the exhibition of N. 35 works by RAUL, mostly inspired by Basquiat art, narrated and experienced by Cesare Manzo.

The exhibition also includes works from the author's Symbolist strand in continuous semiological and aesthetic evolution, with careful research into materials and situations of realisation and exhibit.

The initiative is promoted by Betting on italy (BOI) and Estro Digitale.

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ETHICANDO GALLERY

E-mail: info@ethicando.it

www.ethicando.it

On Thursday, 7 March 2024, from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., the Ethicando Association of Milan is organising the event CREATIVITY AND SUSTAINABILITY IN SUSTAINABLE ART at the Sala della Passione of the Pinacoteca di Brera, via Brera n. 28 - 20121 Milan, under the artistic and scientific curatorship of Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico.

The event consists of a conference on the topic of sustainability in contemporary art (10:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.) during which is the presentation of the book "The Artistic Experience of Tiziano Calcari. Creativity and mourning in sustainable art" (M.E. Di Giandomenico, Milan, Silvana Editoriale, 2023).

Coordinated by curator Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico, various lectures are planned by personalities from culture and art, academia and university, including:

• Alessandro Coscia (archaeologist; events coordinator at the Pinacoteca di Brera)
• Donato Santarcangelo (psychoanalyst and essayist)
• Roberto Rosso (professor of photography at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts)
• Domenico Nicolamarino (professor of Light Design at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts)
• Paolo Calcari (art curator)
• Tiziano Calcari (artist)
• Christian Gaston Illan (Beesness Magazine)

The initiative is promoted by the international communication platform Betting On Italy (BOI), Arte e Spettacolo magazine, Beesness Magazine, Estro Digitale and E-Cinema.

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Per informazioni:

Ethicando Association

E-mail: info@ethicando.it

www.ethicando.it

On Thursday 29 February 2024, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., the Ethicando Association (www.ethicando.it), at its exhibition space ETHICANDO GALLERY, Viale Luigi Majno 38 - 20129 Milan, organises the opening of the personal exhibition of artist Paola Giordano entitled METROPOLITAN FLOWERS. Lighting up the colours of your life, with the artistic curatorship of Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico.

From 29 February to 10 March 2024, N. 20 drawings on paper will be exhibited, focusing on the theme of contemporary urban unease in the age of globalisation and the incessant development of new technologies, with a message of hope from the artist, who hopes for a renewed social balance thanks to the individual and collective rediscovery of eistential colours/values.

The exhibition can be visited every day from 3.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m. (except Saturdays and Sundays), subject to booking and confirmation of participation by the organisation (e-mail address: info@ethicando.it).

The initiative is promoted by the international communication platform Betting On Italy (BOI).

For information:

Ethicando Association

E-mail: info@ethicando.it

www.ethicando.it

Discussion event

SUSTART 

ART SUSTAINABILITY AND TERRITORIAL PROMOTION

Organiser: ETHICANDO Association 

Artistic and scientific curatorship: Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico 

Public relations: Antonella Stifani

Artist exhibiting 2 works of art: Tiziano Calcari

Location: Chamber of Deputies, Palazzo Theodoli-Bianchelli, Sala Giacomo Matteotti, Piazza del Parlamento n. 19 – 00186 Rome

Date and time: Friday 16th February 2024, 10:30 am – 1:00 pm

Patronages: Fondazione Antonietta Viganone ETS, Associazione Italiana Scenografi Scenografi Costumisti e Arredatori (ASC), Associazione SIEDAS, Associazione Italia in Testa, Museo Sigismondo Castromediano di Lecce, Province of Lecce, Municipality of Gallipoli (LE), Municipality of Nardò (LE), Municipality of Galatina (LE), Municipality of Maglie (LE), Municipality of Taviano (LE), Municipality of Matino (LE), Municipality of Aradeo (LE), Municipality of Torchiarolo (BR), Confindustria Lecce

Media partners: Betting On Italy, Estro Digitale, e-Cinema, Arti e Spettacolo, Beesness magazine.

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Friday 16th February 2024, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., at the Chamber of Deputies, Sala Giacomo Matteotti of Palazzo Theodoli-Bianchelli, Piazza del Parlamento n. 19 - 00186 Rome, ETHICANDO Association of Milan (www.ethicando.it) will be presenting the event entitled "SUSTART. SUSTAINABILITY OF ART AND TERRITORIAL PROMOTION" with the artistic and scientific curatorship of Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico.

The event, which consists of a Discussion on the Sustainability of Art with the involvement of personalities from the institutions, academia and universities, the world of art and culture, professions and creative industries, will envisage the participation of parliamentary and government lecturers including Hon. Lorenzo Cesa (President of the Italian Delegation at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly), Sen. Roberto Marti (President 7th Comm. of the Senate of the Republic - Culture and Cultural Heritage, Public Education), Hon. Federico Mollicone (tbc), (President 7th Comm. of the Chamber of Deputies - Culture, Science and Education), , Hon. Saverio Congedo (Leader of the FdI Group, Commission VI - Finance, Member of the Antimafia Commission of the Chamber of Deputies), Hon. Andrea Caroppo (Member of the IX Commission for Transport, Posts and Telecommunications of the Chamber of Deputies), Mr. Giacomo Vigna (Head of Division V - Made in Italy and Creative Industries, Directorate General for Industrial Policy, Innovation and SMEs, Ministry of Business and Made in Italy).

The objective, in line with the UN's 2023 Agenda, is to investigate the best ways of promoting contemporary and historicised artistic production (monumental and artistic heritage) with the aim of enhancing the territory both in terms of building the social fabric in relation to the goals of sustainable development and in terms of protecting cultural identity in the era of globalisation.

Various mayors and administrators from the Salento region will intervene, bringing their specific testimony, parameterised to their local experiences. They will constitute a sort of case history useful for the Discussion so that the various scientific, cultural, and institutional lectures may find an immediate dialogue with those who act daily for the administration of the territories. A special focus will be placed on digital art and all the related problems of production, fruition, and communication that the incessant development of new technologies imposes on all the industry professionals.

The notion of sustainable art will be illustrated and argued with reference to the theoretical propositions contained in the book entitled 'The Artistic Experience of Tiziano Calcari. Creativity and Mourning in Sustainable Art' by Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico (Milan, Silvana Publishing, 2023), which will be presented at the event. Two works of art by Tiziano Calcari, a contemporary sustainable artist, will also be on display in the conference room.

The following people will be participating in the Discussion, coordinated by the contemporary art critic and sustainable art theorist, Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico: Anna Lisa Tota (Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the Università degli Studi Roma Tre), Marcella Caradonna (President of the ODCEC Milano), Roberto Rosso (Full Professor of Photography at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan), Domenico Nicolamarino (Full Professor of Scenography at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan), Maria Letizia Giorgetti (Professor of Industrial Economics - UNIMI), Francesco Fabbiani (President of the Fondazione Antonietta Viganone of Milano), Fabio Dell’Aversana (President of the SIEDAS), Carlo Poggioli (President of the A.S.C.), Annaluce Licheri (President of the ITALIA IN TESTA), Luigi De Luca (Coordinator of the Brindisi-Lecce-Foggia Biblio-Museum Clusters), Stefano Minerva (President of the Province of Lecce, Mayor of the Municipality of Gallipoli-LE), Fabio Vergine (Mayor of the Municipality of Galatina-LE), Giuseppe Tanisi (Mayor of the Municipality of Taviano-LE), Giorgio Salvatore Toma (Mayor of the Municipality of Matino- LE), Nicola Delle Donne (President of the Confindustria Lecce), Fernando Nazaro (tourism entrepreneur; Vice President, dept. of Tourism, Confindustria Lecce), Giulia Puglia (Councillor for Culture of the Municipality of Nardò-LE), Roberta Iasella Vilei (Councillor for Culture, Tourism and Education of the Municipality of Maglie-LE), Georgia Tramacere (Deputy Mayor of the Municipality of Aradeo-LE), Antonella Miccoli (Councillor for Public Works and Environment for the Municipality of Torchiarolo -BR), Giovanni Licheri and Alida Cappellini (set designers), Guido De Angelis (musician, film producer), James Tumminia (Hollywood film director), Antonella Salvucci (actress; Councillor for the Capri Hollywood International Film Festival), Tiziano Calcari (artist), Paolo Calcari (art curator), Francesca Romana Buffetti (editor-in-chief of the Scenografia & Costume Magazine), Christian Gaston Illan (Beesness Magazine).

The initiative, which benefits from the PR activities of Antonella Stifani, enjoys the patronage of the Fondazione Antonietta Viganone ETS, the Associazione Italiana Scenografi Costumisti e Arredatori (ASC), the Associazione SIEDAS, the Associazione Italia in Testa, the Museo Sigismondo Castromediano di Lecce, the Province of Lecce, the Municipality of Gallipoli (LE), the Municipality of Nardò (LE), the Municipality of Galatina (LE), the Municipality of Maglie (LE), the Municipality of Taviano (LE), the Municipality of Matino (LE), the Municipality of Aradeo (LE), the Municipality of Torchiarolo (BR), and the Confindustria Lecce.

Betting On Italy, Estro Digitale, e-Cinema, Arti e Spettacolo, Beesness magazine are media partners of the event.

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For information:

Associazione Ethicando

E-mail: info@ethicando.it 

Website: www.ethicando.it 

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