Panorama International Arts Festival Extended Until 14th September 2024
In response to the immense global interest and enthusiasm generated by the Panorama International Arts Festival 2024, the festival’s organizing committee has announced an extension of the event until September 14th, 2024. The festival, which commenced on August 1st, will now run for a total of 50 days, making it one of the longest and most significant cultural events of the year.
In a statement, Prof. Preeth Padmanabhan Nambiar, the Chairman of Panorama International Arts Festival, expressed his excitement about the extension. “The overwhelming response we have received from artists, art enthusiasts, and the global community is truly heartening,” said Prof. Nambiar. “This extension not only allows us to accommodate the growing number of participants but also provides a larger platform for the diverse voices and creative expressions that define this festival. We are committed to making Panorama 2024 a landmark event in the world of arts, one that transcends boundaries and fosters a deeper understanding of our shared humanity.”
Prof. Nambiar further emphasized the significance of the festival’s theme, “Fire,” as a symbol of passion, transformation, and the enduring power of art to ignite change. “By extending the festival, we aim to continue this dialogue, offering more opportunities for artists to showcase their work and for audiences to engage with the art in a meaningful way.”
Prof. Irene Doura Kavadia, the Chief Coordinator of the festival, echoed Prof. Nambiar’s sentiments, highlighting the collaborative spirit that has made the festival a success. “The extension of Panorama International Arts Festival is a testament to the collective effort and dedication of our global community,” said Prof. Kavadia. “We have witnessed an extraordinary outpouring of creativity and cultural exchange, and this extension will enable us to continue nurturing these connections. Our mission is to create a space where art can flourish, where artists can inspire, and where the world can come together to celebrate the beauty and power of artistic expression.”
Prof. Kavadia also emphasized the importance of the festival’s hybrid mode, which allows for broader participation from artists and audiences across the globe. “The hybrid format has been instrumental in making Panorama 2024 truly global. With this extension, we are excited to welcome even more participants, both virtually and in person, ensuring that the festival remains inclusive and accessible to all.”
The Panorama International Arts Festival, organized by Writers Capital International Foundation, is dedicated to spreading humanitarian values through the arts. With the theme “Fire,” this year’s festival explores the transformative power of art in society, offering a platform for artists from all over the world to share their unique perspectives and creative works. The festival features a wide range of artistic disciplines, including visual arts, literature, music, and performance, and has attracted participants from over 78 countries.
The festival will now run until September 14th, 2024, providing an additional two weeks for participants and audiences to engage with the extensive array of exhibitions, performances, and cultural events. Registration for the extended period is open to all.
In this context, we can speak of poetry, characterized by the close interaction of verbal and visual language, where the image accompanies the verse, while the visual discourse of the image interacts with the word to elaborate the poetic world. The visual appeals to emotion through action, while poetry, in turn, emphasizes the predominance of a verbal register, both fields focused on philosophical and intimate reflection, with a message that is wanted to be transmitted both with the word and with the visual. From this interaction of verbal and visual signs, a sense is born and develops that establishes a synergy and a relationship of interdependence, that is, constituting an indivisible and unalterable aesthetic and formal unit.
Poetry is characterized by its internal cohesion, its rhythmic and sound qualities, the predominance of poetic connotation, a meaning, freedom, expressive and linguistic creativity, linking with the artistic dimension characterized by its interpretive qualities, emotion and sensitivity. , expressive creativity and the aesthetic part of art. In this way, both expressive elements (verbal and visual) form an aesthetic unit and converge in the construction of meaning, resulting in a work made of words and images.
Analysing the various aspects of poetic language and visual art, we can see that there is an innovative journey that goes from poetry to image and performance, or on the contrary, from visual art to poetic language. The two have always had a very close relationship. In this way, we can say that “art is silent poetry and poetry is speaking art”, as Simónides of Ceos (VI-V BC) already expressed and later Horace placing poetry dependent on the image.
The Palazzo della Pietà in Venice hosted OMNISCIENT the exhibition of Papa’s photographic works and Barceló’s poems, curated by Mac Art, included in the Amedeo Modigliani Foundation Biennale. On the occasion of this exhibition, the commemorative book OMNISCIENT was published by the Setteponti Publishing House, with the preface by Paolo Giansiracusa and the afterword by Michele Lasala, where the various photographs and poems of both artists are collected. In the first part we find the twelve works of Omniscient accompanied by the twelve poems of Barcelo and in the second part, a tribute to the ten-year career of the artist Filippo Papa with the publication of ten works, one for each career year, always accompanied by poems unpublished by the poet Barcelo.
“Filippo Papa and Joan Josep i Barcelo travel in unison on the curvilinear paths of the universe. They adopt the same synthesis and love the musicality of silence. One captures images that push the gaze toward the Empireus, the other “rebuilds in the ceiling of the sky with every heartbeat”. It would seem that their poetics are entirely constructed by admiring the infinity that dominates our presence. Both look upwards as if looking for a trajectory that pushes the soul towards the place where everything is destined to converge. In this regard, Barcelo weaves verses as light as air, as burning like fire, and reminds us of everyone’s destiny in “asking only to die in the belly of the dome”.
“Filippo Papa and Joan Josep Barcelo, the photographer and the poet, the Sicilian and the Catalan, united in a journey called beauty. Moved by the desire to grasp, in the most varied forms of things, the most intimate essence of being, the two brave wayfarers unleash the weapons they know best. Papa does this by using light, with which he rewrites and describes the order of the world and admirably discloses that silent grammar that lies, eternal, under the heavy blanket of the visible. Barcelo does this by using the word, with which he illuminates, like a powerful beacon, the darkest and most hidden corners of the spirit of man. Two languages apparently distant from each other, but which actually show and prove to be basically the same thing. In fact, photography and poetry are both forms capable of capturing, imprisoning, freezing and crystallizing in an image or in a word the fleeting moment, the instant, the moment; what by nature is destined to live in a short space of time and then soon be swallowed up in the infinite darkness where everything is cancelled out. But art, photographic and poetic, has the strength to steal the moment that is about to dissolve from its evil destiny. At that moment there is the secret of the world, there is the whole sense of being. It is that light that pierces the darkness and illuminates the conscience of man, and that art reveals precisely. An image that, in Papa’s wonderful photos, finds full concreteness in the elegant shapes of a dome pierced by a mystical ray of sunshine. Seen from below and from inside, this almost looks like a circle of light, surrounded by the deepest darkness that eats away and cancels the rest of the church. In Barcelo’s profound lyrics, however, takes on the appearance of those words that no one understands and understands, which however herald a possible tomorrow. In one way or another, the presence of the transcendent is felt in the captured moment; the presence of what is far beyond the narrow schemes of reason. Absolute knowledge, or omniscience, whose most perfect symbol is not by chance the circle, among the forms, the one that best expresses the Umgreifende, the all-embracing of Jaspersian memory, where the possible is understood as well as the impossible”.