The Green Festival meets Vinicio Capossela
On Friday 8 July in Sogliano al Rubicone during the first of the two days of the Sponz Fest, there was a meeting between San Marino and the Montefeltro Green Festival and the artist Vinicio Capossela, organizer of the event. Middle of the meeting and the subsequent dialogue, a work of the artist Dem, alias Marco Barbieri, which Gabriele Geminiani, creator of the San Marino Green Festival, donated a capossela invaded by wonder. It is a black and white silkscreen printed on the cotton of a T-shirt, in a limited edition of 99 copies. “I knew I was hitting the mark – says Geminiani – Capossela’s entire poetic research has its roots in an archaic culture where man and nature come together in a controversial relationship. And the work created expressly by the DEM artist for the Green Festival represents a powerful symbiosis between man and nature, an authentic ‘wild man’, very dear to Vinicio “. The theme of the 2022 edition of the Sponz Fest is precisely the land, the culture and culture of the land, which musically draws on folkloric and dialectal heritage and brings the periphery of the countries and sustainability back to the center of the discourse. And speaking of the importance of language and dialect, on the first day Giuseppe Bellosi, leading expert of our dialect and our traditions, was present on the stage together with Vinicio and Stefano Bellavista. present, with an excursus into Romagna dialectal poetry from the end of the 19th century to the present day. And the points of contact between this year’s themes of the Sponz Fest and the Green Festival are more than evident: they range from intensive agriculture to the consumption of the territory, from climate change to the depopulation of countries, all elements that are completely changing. the natural and human landscape of the world we live in. And it is precisely in Sogliano, at the Sambi House International Center for Peace, that the Green Festival has its own Sustainable Archives, a collection of works of art on environmental and social issues. With the young and enterprising municipal administration there is all the desire to create paths, and the idea of contamination with the most significant events of the Soglianese cultural season of 2023. And why not, also of the next edition of the Sponz Fest. “We parted with Capossela by exchanging contacts, in the light of significant common interests and contents” concludes a satisfied Geminiani, the relational ‘animal’ of the San Marino and Montefeltro Green Festival for which there is no culture without relationships. As a seal of what has been said and of hypothetical elective affinities, Capossela himself on stage quotes his South American counterpart Vinicius de Moraes in his ‘Samba of blessings’ when he says: “Life is the art of encounter.”
cs San Marino and Montefeltro Green Festival