Piccolo-Grudda

“Fantasie Visonarie”

Art exhibition by Casimiro Piccolo and Carin Grudda

Greek Theatre, from April 3 to November 30 2015

Entrance: € 2,00
Same hours of the Greek Theatre: from 9.00am to one hour before sunset.

 

Info about the exhibition and the authors (in Italian)

 

 

 More info as soon as possible!

LanternsGood Friday – Procession

Taormina, April 3 2015 – Late afternoon/night

Good Friday is a religious holiday observed primarily by Christians commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary. The holiday is observed during Holy Week on the Friday preceding Easter Sunday.
In Taormina, the event starts in the late afternoon just before dusk, as hundreds of women clad in black, carrying orange-colored lanterns, descend the narrow steps linking the main streets, and begin the procession. A group of women support on their shoulders a statue of the blessed mother engulfed by flowers. A band playing somber music processes behind them, while the men of begin their march, bearing the statue of Jesus on their shoulders. The entire group slowly walks to the duomo and back. Ladies in black assemble

All shop’s lighting and all street illumination on the Corso Umberto will be switched off, as soon as the procession is arriving. Only the candles of the procession give some low light. When it is passed by, the shopkeepers switch on the lights again.

Whether you’re Catholic or not, you can’t help but get caught up in the beauty, the history and the solemnity of the occasion.

(credit: Ciao Chow Linda and others).

Here the program of the Holy Week in Taormina (in Italian)

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PROGRAMMA-

Andy WarholMADE IN WARHOL

Display of artworks by Andy Warhol

Palazzo Corvaja, from March 21 to June 7 2015

Open every day except Mondays: 10,30am – 1.00pm and 4,30pm – 9.00pm

During Easter Time – from March 31 to April 7 – the exhibition will be open every day, including Mondays, from 10.30am to 10.30pm

Tickets on site and on ctbox.it
Ticket: € 7,00
Reduced ticket (€ 4,00) for under 18, over 65, groups of more than 10 people and University students. Free entrance for kids under 5 years old.

Art exhibition of one of the most eclectic personalitiy of the ‘900: Andy Warhol.

The 60 works of the artist all come from the famous collection Rosini-Gutman: the Campbell’s Soup and Brillo, Marilyn Monroe and Mao, Man Ray, John Gotti, Liz Taylor and the rare canvas with Liza Minelli just to name  a few.

In Palazzo Corvaja you will also see posters of his films, album covers – including those of the Rolling Stones, Velvet Underground and Graces Jones – some clothes designed by himself and a video self-portraits.

 More info @ Taormina Arte  T. +39 0942 628730 – info@taormina-arte.com


PRESS RELEASE

The exhibition, Made in Warhol,  inserted into the schedule  of TAORMINA ARTE, and with the sponsorship of the City of Taormina, is organized by Studio Soligo and cared by Giuseppe Stagnitta and Julie Kogler with the scientific advice of the art psychologist Alberto Angelini , documenting the great communicative power of the most eclectic personalities and important art of the ‘900: Andy Warhol. The works on display will be 60, coming from the famous collection Rosini-Gutman (from known Campbell’s Soup and Brillo the famous Marilyn Monroe and Mao, from Man Ray to John Gotti and Liz Taylor and rare work on canvas by Liza Minelli to name a few …) . At the same time the exhibition will propose the celebration of “Things”, “People” and “Symbols” applicants in business art of Andy Warhol (giving a cut exposure strictly “analytical” which will focus more on the personality of the artist, thanks to the contribution of the psychoanalyst Alberto Angelini) that have made him perhaps the most famous artist of the modern era: the posters of his films, the album covers including those of the Rolling Stones, Velvet Underground, Graces Jones, some clothes designed by himself portraits and video. You will find on display, in addition, the screening of a rare interview conducted by journalist Vanni Ronsisvalle in 1977 in Rome, where the artist is taken in his wanderings to the Eternal City, she meets characters right of the social fabric of the Roman period, as Federico Fellini and dwells contemplating the baroque architecture of the city center. Fame, fashion, act as triggering agents for the products of art, rather than works, made by manager / artist Warhol. Products in which the unique art is sublimated in the strength of the violent and disruptive screen printing, silkscreen granting the reproducibility of a matrix of originals that remain such, they become tools of communication. A serial production of objects / subjects as newspapers, decontextualized and made accessible to the general public due to their image / icon that does not require multiple interpretations or readings that have always addressed, limiting it, the vision of the art work towards spectators prepared. The portraits of some of the most famous celebrities of the international jet set testify the period “mundane” and glamorous undertaken by Andy Warhol during which the artist were commissioned portraits from all over the world and from many different social categories of people, as long as wealthy (“Painter of the court of the Seventies” is how the critic Robert Rosenblum defines Warhol). The development of communication skills, virtual or not, confirmed with the passage of time functionality, sometimes subliminal, aesthetic and stylistic choices of production made in Warhol in relation to the persuasive power of the image. A power increasingly inevitable, primary element in all social contexts in which Warhol and sociological communicates, impresses, conveys its values and its techniques and quotes.

The exhibition space will also cultural path Made in Benanti: contemporary art and especially the Pop Art, so closely linked to marketing and communication, approaches to wine and his way of communicating with a “Project “for Winery Benanti,  TRANSFORMING the bottle containing the wine, and the wine itself, Work of Art. Three artists for three labels: Danilo Bucchi, Emilio Leofreddi and Mark Tamburro will create, through an event each month, in the “garden” of the Palazzo Corvaja, a work live on cases of wine, arranged as to create a large wall / canvas on which to detonate the explosive energy of communicative neo pop of the three artists.
(Source: Taormina Arte)

 

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MEET JAZZ 2015

Casa Cuseni, Via Leonardo da Vinci, 14 @5.30pm

Free entrance and free guided tour of the villa starting from 4.30pm

The Taormina Jazz Association and the jazz player Nello Toscano – host by the historical villa Casa Cuseni – will introduce you to four timeless kigs of jazz artists who made the history of Jazz:

January 31 >> Duke Ellington

February 7 >> Charlie Parker

March 7 >> Miles Davis

March 14 >> Thelonious Monk

 

 

About Casa Cuseni Brangwyn & Kitson Art Gallery
An Italian National Monument

Casa Cuseni, designed and built by Robert Hawthorn Kitson between 1905 and 1907 below the Rocca of Taormina, is one of several fine villas built by Englishmen who chose to add to the beauty of the town whose prospects of Mount Etna and the local coastline had captivated them.
The terraced gardens of Casa Cuseni are a remarkable feat of careful design, sound construction and skilful engineering. To hold the winter rainfall until the summertime, Kitson designed a set of large cisterns under the front terrace and the pergola, for which several wells and the swimming pool made further provision. The gardens were filled with citrus and other fruit trees as well as roses, vines and wisteria, some of which still adorn the terraces. They were an integral part of Kitson’s overall design, lined up on the axis of the house and enlivening the steep access to it. At every level there is a major feature to catch the eye (…).
(source: casacuseni.com)

 

 

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JAZZ

Javier Girotto Quartet

Excelsior Palace Hotel, Saturday January 24 @ 5.30pm

Entrance: 20,00 euro

Four great musicians: Dino Rubino, Nello Toscano, Beppe Tringali and a the Argentinian saxophonist Javier Girotto, who is world-around famous artist.

More info:
http://www.javiergirotto.com
http://www.javiergirotto.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KHNZY0wy_U

 

 

HOW MUCH: Euro 15.00 / 20.00

 

 

 

premio città Taormina

Prize “Town of Taormina”

in memory of Nino Manfredi

Hotel Villa Diodoro, January 6th 2015 @6.00pm

During the evening > concert of the Taormina Plectrum Orchestra

 “Nino” Manfredi (22 March 1921 – 4 June 2004) was one of the most prominent Italian actors in the commedia all’italiana genre. He was also a film and stage director, a screenwriter, a playwright, a comedian, a singer, an author, a radio and television presenter and a voice actor. He won six David di Donatello awards, six Nastro d’Argento awards and the Prix de la première oeuvre (Best First Work Award) at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival for Between Miracles.
Tipically playing losers, emarginated, working-class characters yet “in possession of their dignity, morality, and underlying optimism”, he was referred to as “one of the few truly complete actors in Italian cinema”.

Manfredi was married to runway TAORMINESE model Erminia Ferrari from 1955 till his death. In 2007 an asteroid (73453 Ninomanfredi) was named after him. In 2009 a Nino Manfredi Prize was established at the Nastro d’Argento Awards. Manfredi also named a theatre in Ostia, Rome.

On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of his death, in 2014, Manfredi was remembered by “Nino!”, a series of events, held in various places including Los Angeles, New York, Rome and Paris, which included retrospectives, exhibitions, and the staging of an unreleased play of Manfredi.[17]

 

 

 

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New Year’s Concert

January 1st 2015, San Domenico Palace Hotel

Free entrance

 

In one of the oldest and most beautiful hotel in Taormina!

 

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W i n t e r   P r o g r a m
From November 2014 to April 2015 >> Every Saturday at 9.15pm

S u m m e r  P r o g r a m
From May to October 2015 >> Every Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 9.15pm

San Giorgio  Theatre (behind piazza IX April)

€ 20,00 entrance

Do you love Opera music? The artists of the Italian Opera Taormina perform every week in Taormina. More than one hour of timeless arias from some of the most famous Italian operas.

An extraordinary journey with the most famous arias and duet from “Italian Operas”. You will hear music from great Italian operas interpreted by professional singers who have performed in the most important Italian and international theatres, performed with piano accompaniment.

The evening will be held in the Cine Teatro ‘San Giorgio’ where you will be offered a drink and can take in an extraordinary panorama view of Taormina.

Program arias from:

The Marriage of Figaro by W. A. Mozart
La Traviata by G. Verdi
Elisir D’Amor by G. Donizetti
Il barbiere di Siviglia by G. Rossini
Madame Butterfly – La BohemeTosca by G. Puccini

Download the poster
Tickets : € 20,00 (under 25 € 15,00) Box office:  11:00 – 12:00 a.m.  and from 7.00pm on concert dates Tickets Online:  www.italianoperataormina.com or classictic.com

Info and booking: 0039 340 64 26 230 (mobile)

 

Here the program of each performance

April 4 – April 11April 18 April 25

May 1May 4May 6May 8May 11 May 13May 15May 18May 20May 22May 25May 27May 29

June 1June 3June 5June 8June 10June 12June 15June 17June 19June 22June 24June 26June 29 ()

July 1July 3July 6July 8July 10July 13July 15July 17 July 20July 22July 24 July 27July 29July 31

August 3August 5August 7August 10August 12August 14August 17August 19August 21August 24August 26August 28 – August 31

September 2September 4September 7September 9September 11September 14September 16September 18September 21September 23September 25September 28September 30

October 2October 5October 7October 9 – October 12 – October 14 – October 16 – October 19 – October 21 – October 23 – October 26October 28October 30

 

 

 

 

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“Away”
Photo Exbitions

Palazzo Corvaja, December 21 2014 – February 28 2015

Free entrance

In the magnificent set of Palazzo Corvaja, a photo exhibition organised by the Association TaoClick

Maddonna de TurcisDISPLAY OF

Madonna de Turcis

Palazzo Corvaja, from December 21st 2014 to February 28 2015

Free entrance

A small old painting found (together with another important painting – the “Madonna Non Manufatta” – now located in the cathedral of Taormina) many years ago in a forgotten well. The two paintings were probably placed there to protect them from repeated invasions and looting in Arab times.

The Madonna de Turcis is now completely restored and it is a real jewel.