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51ma Biennale di Venezia - Arti Visive Directed by María de Corral and by Rosa Martínez      

    Marco Nereo Rotelli   

 

    ISOLA DELLA POESIA 

Poetry Island

 

C u r a t o r

 ACHILLE BONITO OLIVA 

 

San Secondo Island, Venezia

June 8th - September 15th 2005

 

Marenostrum Foundation / Incontri Internazionali d’Arte

Video interview with

Orlando Pandolfi

President of Mrenostrum Foundation 

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From June 8 until Sptember 15 2005 in the context of the 51st edition of the Venice Biennial of Visual Art is visible in the Venice Lagoon, East of Ponte della Libertŕ, a light island,

art work by

Marco Nereo Rotelli

 

Video on line of the Poetry Island Party given in Milan on April 16th! People! Poets! Interviews!

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 /        Parti-Poetry in Milan for Poetry Island /        Islands of Stone: video interview with the sculptor Luciano Massari (Italian) /        Lucepura: video interview with Davide Scattolin (Italian) /        

Events in the context of Poetry Island

 

PO-ETIC ISLAND / ISLAND OF LIGHT (Art Work by Marco Nereo Rotelli) / LIFE IS DREAM 

- FLOATING RAFT ON THE SEA (With Achille Bonito Oliva) / VIRTUAL ISLAND (Web Waves of Poetry from the World with Caterina Davinio / / Selected poems published in La Repubblica Arte Newspaper with  Paolo Vagheggi 

THE NIGHT OF POETS / PATRONAGE / Communication

 

Stay with us in Venice!

The island is San Secondo, an abandoned island, offended from pollution, that has been cleaned and trasformed in an art work with an art action, for a message in defence of indentity of places and persons, a message transmitted by light and poetry, poetry as a "language of light" of human being and for human being.

 

READ A PRESENTATION OF  ROTELLI'S WORK  

WRITTEN BY ACHILLE BONITO OLIVA

 

 

PO-ETIC ISLAND: MAY 22nd

 

POETS AND ARTISTS CLEAN THE ISLAND 

Performance in defence of the small islands of the world and in favour and respect of their identity.

 

        Among the participants:

 

MASSIMO DONŔ, VALERIANO MANFREDI, FERNANDA PIVANO, LUCIANO MASSARI, MARIA MULAS, FRANZ DI CIOCCIO, MATTEO FERRETTI, PHILIPPE DAVERIO, RENATO PALAZZI, GIULIO GIORELLO, FABIO ZANZOTTO, ANNAMARIA ORSINI, LORETO RAFANELLI, ROBERTO MUSSAPI, PAOLO METTEL, GIOVANNA ZABOTTI, ORLANDO PANDOLFI, PAOLO DE GRANDIS, ELENA BARBALICH, AND OTHERS.

 

 

ISLAND OF LIGHT: Starting on June 9th 2005

 

The island is lighted with "Pure Light" projectors , which give and effect of blue light.

Temporized lightening all night long changes color with a fluctuant effect.

On the island installations based on optical prisms, on a structure with a regulation of light for day and night.

The screen shows words and verses by the poets: Andrea Zanzotto, Fawzi AlDelmi, Yves Bonnefoy, Edoardo Sanguineti, Duo-Duo, Tadeusza Rozewicza, Ana Blandiana, Adonis, Kikuo Takano, Anatolij Naiman, Nasos Vaghenas, Roli Hope Odeka.

It is a diffuse poetry: a crossing of verses from Africa, Asia, from Europe, America. A dimension of the word for creating a net of communication in support and in defence of indentity.

 

LIFE IS DREAM ----- FLOATING RAFT ON THE SEA in front of San Secondo Island

 

In the night of June 9th a unique event with the particpation of the art critic ACHILLE BONITO OLIVA and three joung poets, on a raft floating in the middle of the Laguna in front of San Secondo Island. With FRANZ DI CIOCCIO in the performance: "Sound of the Waves".

PATRIZIA ZAPPA MULAS reads her poems - 

The SOCIETA’ REMIERE have been invited to participate in a fest that wants to support respect and defence of the small island of the Laguna.

 

VIRTUAL ISLAND (On Line with Karenina.it! Starting on June 9th)

 

Open call directed to poets/artists from the world to be guests in the island by sending a poem, that will be published on line. For a human flow in support and defence of identity of people and places.

CURATOR: CATERINA DAVINIO 

Poems will be on line on the web sites: La Repubblica Arte, Karenina.it

Publication of selected poems on La Repubblica Arte curated by PAOLO VAGHEGGI.

 

THE NIGHT OF POETS - JULY 21ST 

 

IN THE NIGHT OF JULY 21ST 2005 VENICE IS GIVEN TO POETRY WITH READINGS AND PERFORMANCES IN THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PALACES AND PARKS  OF THE CITY.

 

       CA’  FOSCARI - 04:00  - 05:00 PM

 

-         FRIENDS, FROM THE SHIP YOU CAN SEE THE WORLD

-         Tribute to Mario Luzi 

  POETS FROM EAST AND WEST

PARTICIPANTS: ADONIS, NASOS VAGHENAS, Nazěh Abu 'Afash,

SPONSOR: MISSONI

CURATOR: EROS  BALDISSERA

 

PALAZZO FRANCHETTI - 06:00 - 07:00 PM

 

    - LATIN AMERICAN SUNSET 

PERFORMANCE BY POETS FROM LATIN AMERICA

SPONSOR: BISAZZA

CURATOR:  ANTONIO AREVALO

 

CAFFE FLORIAN - 08:00 - 09:00 PM

 

    - DREAM IN VENICE                                                                   

SPONSOR: CAFFE FLORIAN

FERNANDA PIVANO

CURATOR:  MARCO NEREO ROTELLI

 

 PALAZZO CORRER, ISTITUTO RUMENO - 11:00 -12:00 PM

SPONSOR: COMUNE DI ROMA

 

GOODNIGHT NIGHT

ANA BLANDIANA

A CURA DI MARIA GRAZIA GALATA'

 

GARDEN OF PALAZZO NANI BERNARDO - 01:00 - 04:00 AM  

 

TENDER IS THE NIGHT

     Tribute to Mario Luzi 

     Italian Poets

ANNA BONINSEGNI, TIZIANO BROGGIATO, ALBERTO CAPPI, MILO DE ANGELIS, MARIELLA DE SANTIS, GIUSEPPE MANNINO, MARCO MARANGONI, ROBERTO MUSSAPI, LORETTO RAFANELLI, MARIA LUISA SPAZIANI, CATERINA TROMBETTI.

CURATOR: PAOLO LAGAZZI

 

     HELLENIC INSTITUTE - 05:00 AM

     WHEN THE NIGHT BECOMES DAY

 

EDOARDO SANGUINETI 

 

 

 

PATRONAGE: PRESIDENT OF THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC

UNESCO, Il Ministero degli Esteri, Il Ministero dell’Ambiente, La Regione Veneto, Il Comune di Venezia, Il Consiglio Comunale di Roma, L'Ambasciata del Costarica, L’Ambasciata del Brasile, La Prefettura di Zante, L’Ambasciata del Cile.

 

Coordinated with:

La Prefettura di Zante (Grecia), le Isole Costaricensi, l’Ambasciata del Brasile, il Governo dell'Isola di Pasqua (Cile), l’Isola Palmaria, le Isole Eolie, l’Isola Tiberina e la Penisola di Bodrum.

 

Communication with logo sponsor

 

Banner realized by Silvia Camporesi, mt 5 x 6 at the entrance of the Biennial, in front of ex - Bar Giardino.

 

50.000 cards diffused during tre days of the Opening of the Biennial.

 

30.000 city plans with information about the "Night of Poets" diffused starting on July 1st int the city of Venice.

 

5000     posters in other Italian cities ans stations.

 

WEB SITE: www.isoladellapoesia.org.

 

 

 

Images of the installation Isola della Poesia and Raft on the Sea: Marco Nereo Rotelli, Filippo Centenari, 2005.

Background "Poesia", 2003, and other images related to the Virtual Island (Cell-Poertrait, and other graphics, 2005): Caterina Davinio. Davinio Art Electronics Copyright © All Right Reserved.

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