“MASTERPIECE. On the trail of wonder” is underway, the new Docu-series hosted by Raffaele Quattrone that from April 7, 2024, every Sunday at 11.00:XNUMX am will be broadcast in preview on “Documentando. Archivio del Documentario Italiano”, the digital platform for the preservation and viewing of Italian documentaries, with free access without territorial restrictions, created by the DE-R Documentaristi Emilia Romagna Aps Association in collaboration with Emilia-Romagna Film Commission and Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna. After this preview, the broadcast will be broadcast on a national network.
Through simple and engaging language, the Docu-series presents itself as a journey to discover international contemporary art with the involvement of numerous important artists from all over the world such as Shirin Neshat, Imran Qureshi, Bertozzi & Casoni, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Vanessa Beecroft, Jeff Koons, Alberto Di Fabio, Mona Hatoum, Marinella Senatore and Anri Sala, who collaborated directly with Quattrone in writing the episodes. Born in the midst of the pandemic, in a period in which it was forbidden to move, “MASTERPIECE. On the trail of wonder” is an exploration of the most recent contemporary artistic panorama, with its feet planted in Italy and in particular in Rome as still current realities, capable of influencing the present and the future.
The Docu-series is composed of a first introductory episode, which anticipates the adventures of the protagonists visible in the five subsequent episodes, for a total of six episodes. Below are the titles:
- Identity is Freedom. Freedom is Identity (Shirin Neshat and Imran Qureshi)
- Responsibility (Bertozzi & Casoni and Michelangelo Pistoletto)
- Desire and Social Models (Vanessa Beecroft and Jeff Koons)
- Spaces and Places (Alberto Di Fabio and Mona Hatoum)
- Transformation (Marinella Senatore and Anri Sala)
Actors such as Stefano Paiano, Giulia Santullo, Arianna Sarghini and Carola Tangari, defined Friends of Masterpiece and guided by Raffaele Quattrone as curator/presenter, begin a journey to discover wonder through the artistic practice of ten international artists.
“Wonder is the feeling of amazement and surprise aroused by something new, extraordinary, or unexpected.
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(Philip Fisher, Wonder, the Rainbow and the Aesthetics of Rare Experiences, 2003).
Mixing cinematic, television and documentary language, the episodes include a brief preview at the Hotel de la Ville, a jewel of Rocco Forte Hotels and an iconic eighteenth-century building that stands at the top of Trinità dei Monti, inspired by the Grand Tour. In this hotel, the protagonists, who ideally live here, prepare for the theme of the episode together with Christopher DiCas, aspiring assistant to Fabrizio Caramagna who plays the role of the researcher of wonders and wrote the quotes interpreted by DiCas himself. From there, using a bike entirely handmade for the occasion - a symbol of freedom, female emancipation, environmental sustainability - in the first episode the protagonists reach Rhinoceros, the Palace of the Arts conceived by Alda Fendi and designed by Jean Nouvel, with a spectacular view of the Palatine and the Arch of Janus returned by Fendi to the city with the lighting of the Oscar winner Vittorio Storaro. From the second episode onwards, the cast reaches the Real Academia de España, an iconic cultural center located on the Janiculum with a breathtaking view of the capital, a place that for 150 years is still contemporary today and continues to host international cultural operators, organizing exhibitions, conferences and concerts with free admission. An original mix of past, present and future.
In this journey, Quattrone – who wrote the project with the support of Alessandro Moreschini and Livia Savorelli – involved Piero Passaro as director and creator of the visual project, Bad Toast Production for the executive production, Francesco Quiriconi for the original music and then Espoarte, Contemporary Art Magazine, Hotel de la Ville (Rocco Forte Hotels), ikonoTV, Associazione Nazionale Sociologi Dipartimento Emilia Romagna and the Real Academia de España en Roma, as well as a series of Italian entities that bring the Made in Italy philosophy to the world and contemporary art magazines that have agreed to become media partners of the initiative, including Art a part of cult(ure), Artapp, Artuu, Magazine, Exibart, Frammenti Rivista, Insideart, Yogurt Magazine, Segno.
You can access the viewing by going to the site www.documentando.org or directly from the app via smartphone and tablet.
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