Projects & Events

Sunday, July 6, 2025, 4-6 p.m., the solo exhibition entitled ART IN CRIPTA by Elvino Motti at the Crypt of St. Anthony in Gravedona ed Uniti (CO), with art curatorship by Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico, opens.

The initiative, which runs through 2025, is sponsored by the Province of Como, the Municipality of Gravedona ed Uniti, the Municipality of Dongo, the Mountain Community of Lario and Ceresio Valleys, and the Villa Vigoni Association. It enjoys the promotion of the international communication platform Betting On Italy.

No. 8 light sculptures/installations by Elvino Motti are exhibited, "which dialogue admirably with the evocative spaces of the ante fourteenth-century crypt, almost making visible the spiritual yearnings consolidated in the centuries-old liturgical environments" (Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico).

"In the quiet of this hallowed space, Elvino Motti’s installation offers flickers of light, reaching out to the carved Romanesque capitals and the frescoes of the fourteenth century. How could they not respond? For in the language of scripture, light is the first word ever spoken: and Christ, the Lumen Gentium, the light of the people" (Don Francesco Marinoni).

Fiorenzo Bongiasca (president of the Province of Como), Cesare Soldarelli (mayor of the municipality of Gravedona ed Uniti), Mauro Robba (mayor of the municipality of Dongo and president of the Comunità Montana Valli del Lario e del Ceresio), as well as various personalities from the world of culture and art are scheduled to participate.

Ph credits: Mauro Ceresa

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E-mail: info@bettingonitaly.com

Thursday, May 29, 2025, 6:30 p.m. - 9 p.m., at Ethicando Gallery, Viale Luigi Majno no. 38, takes place the opening of solo exhibition by Emilio Giossi entitled DARKNESS & LIGHT, with artistic curatorship by Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico.

The exhibition initiative, which runs until May 31, 2025, includes fourteen pictorial artworks of various sizes, exemplifying the path of artistic evolution in recent decades.

"Emilio Giossi is a well-rounded artist - comments art critic Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico - with an innate creativity that overflows into multiple creative languages (including writing), shipwrecking in a painting with ancestral tones of an evident oneiric matrix. The eternal dilemma of the SACRED PROFANE finds no solution. The river of creative chaos rests in the bed of the impossible search for a definitive Truth, from which flow images and chromatics that transport the observer to the most hidden inner meanderings of his own humanity".

The exhibition is promoted by the international communication platform Betting On Italy and Estro Digitale.

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For information: ETHICANDO Association, e-mail: info@ethicando.it

Thursday, May 8, 2025, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., at Ethicando Gallery, Viale Luigi Majno n. 38 - 20129 Milan, as part of the series of events entitled INTERVIEW WITH THE ARTIST, in which an art critic dialogues with a contemporary artist, Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico meets Salento artist Caterina Romano.

Caterina Romano, aka Karo, originally from Lecce, has been producing pictorial works for more than 20 years, the subject of solo exhibitions in various prestigious Italian institutional locations. In 2023 her works are exhibited at the Sala Vetri of the Museo del Risorgimento in Milan as part of an international event entitled SUSTAINABLE ART, with the participation of personalities from the world of institutions, academia and university, culture and art.

As art critic Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico states, “artworks by Caterina Romano express the existential malaise in a contemporary society dominated by the hyper-communication of new media, increasingly unable to bring out and promote human and cultural content, at the mercy of the search for consensus at any cost, ”like/don't like," fertile ground for new planetary conflicts, which configure an uncertain and dark future.

The vivid colors, enveloping themselves in abstract shapes imprinted with movement, constitute the expressive output of an irrepressible creativity, which wants to narrate cultural identity as the starting point of an est-ethical social restyling, harbinger of a sustainable relationship of human beings with themselves and with every animate and inanimate component of the planet. The color yellow is always there, as long as there is life, even if repudiated and mortified by other chromaticisms, namely by contemporary social dramas, unthinkable even a little more than 20 years ago".

The event is sponsored by Betting On Italy and Estro Digitale.

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For information:

ETHICANDO Association

E-mail: info@ethicando.it

15.04.2025 - At #EthicandoGallery (www.ethicando.it), viale Luigi Majno n. 38 - 20129 Milan, starting at 6:30 p.m., there will be a presentation of the book (e-book) entitled THE THREE DAMES BY LEONARDO. STORIES BY ZOE', published by hashtag#EthicandoEditore in 2024 and written by deliberately anonymous author (#Zoè is her pseudonym).

It consists of four short stories with fantastical narrative declinations about #LeonardodaVinci and three women who posed for as many magnificent portraits taken by the great Tuscan artist: #LisaGherardini (#MonnaLisa), #GinevradeBenci, #CeciliaGallerani (#LaDamamaconlErmellino).

The presentation is by art critic Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico.

The event is sponsored by #and #EstroDigitale.

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"... THE THREE DAMES BY LEONARDO is a literary work that includes four fantasy tales and some illustrations by Zoè (deliberately anonymous contemporary author), where the protagonists are Leonardo da Vinci, and Guinevere, Cecilia and Monna Lisa – the three dames depicted in his unrivalled canvasses.

The stories are steeped with emotions, small twists and turns, and naturalistic and social contexts almost reminiscent of Edmondo De Amicis' 'Cuore' (‘Heart’). They can all be read in one go, leaving the reader with a sense of hope and serenity: a sort of counterbalance to the frenetic and desertifying pace of contemporary society.

The tales by Zoè are for anyone above 12 years of age; they are a breath of fresh air; they dust off our deepest human identity and are almost therapeutic for those who seek the silence necessary to listen to the voice of our ancestral Self".

(excerpted from the foreword by Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico)

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Event booking link: https://www.eventbrite.it/e/presentazione-del-libro-le-tre-dame-di-leonardo-racconti-di-zoe-tickets-1322708830719

Book purchase link : https://www.ethicandoeditore.com/product-page/le-tre-dame-di-leonardo-racconti-di-zo%C3%A8

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ETHICANDO Association

E-mail: info@ethicando.it