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July 14, 2012 Archeofest - Le notti dell’Archeologia / Festival Nazionale dell'Archeologia
Museo Civico per la Preistoria del Monte Cetona
Region of Tuscany - Cetona Town Council, curated by Maria Teresa Cuda
Cosa es lo Humano? video screening, revised version with music by Prada & Soragna
presentation by Antonio Locafaro
Cetona Municipality - press release - July 12, 2012
translation Heather Holloran
In Cetona, the video “Cosa es lo Humano?” as part of the event “Le notti dell’archeologia”
Saturday, July 14, 9 pm, the Museo Civico per la Preistoria presents the video artwork by Sienese artist Franca Marini, while the exhibition “Dall’acqua alla Terra”, children's workshops and archaeological hikes all continue.
CETONA (Siena) - July 14, at 9 pm Cosa es lo Humano? (18 min.), video art work by the Sienese artist Franca Marini, in a new version, with music by Prada & Soragna, is presented for the first time in Italy, at the Museo Civico per la Preistoria del Monte Cetona, as part of "Le notti dell’archeologia" organized by the Region of Tuscany.
The presentation of this work in a museum devoted to preserving the earliest evidence of man's history and promoting knowledge of his culture and way of life, can in itself be the starting point for a reflection on the origins and meaning of creative achievement within the evolutionary history of man and and so for a comparison with its meaning in the present, in contemporary society.
The video aims to be a search, through image, for the deepest sense of what it is to be human, conceived first and foremost as social dimension and creative thought. Images of Palaeolithic art, of indisputable beauty, still meaningful and relevant, speak of the universal value of art and how the need for expression has been a characteristic peculiar to man since his earliest beginnings. In the video, sequences representing the motion of inner thought alternate with sequences of Palaeolithic art, with sequences of masses of people in motion and of the urban environment of present day cities, quintessential expression of the social dimension of man. The conclusion, which follows the sequences shot in the Grotte di Belverde, represents hope, the possibility of the emergence of a new form of social relationship.
Franca Marini is a Sienese artist with an international background. After studying art at the Istituto Statale d’Arte Duccio di Buoninsegna of Siena and at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Florence, she lived in the U.S. for over 10 years, working as a professional artist. At the end of a long journey in the field of painting, her artistic research has turned to the exploration of new media such as site-specific installations and video art. She has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows in Italy, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica and the United States. She teaches painting at the Siena School for Liberal Arts and in the Siena Program of the Buffalo State College.
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