GardaLo! the second edition of the Lake Garda Festival

25 August 2023

Strongly desired by the president of the Vittoriale degli Italiani, Giordano Bruno Guerri, as a necessary cultural complement to an area that, although strong in terms of quality and quantity of tourism, still lacked an entertainment offer, GardaLo! returns this year with its second edition to illuminate - literally and otherwise - the harbours of Lake Garda with culture and art.

ARTIST'S LIGHT INSTALLATIONS
In the harbours of Desenzano, Sirmione and Toscolano Maderno, artist Marco Nereo Rotelli has developed a night lighting project that will project - with his own stylistic signature - words and verses by poets that are an invitation to respect the lake and to look at the night through the light of poetry.
The thoughts of great men of letters who have loved Lake Garda will thus create veritable waves of light that will be reflected, echoing one another, among the major harbours of Lake Garda for the entire duration of the Festival, from the evening of Friday 8 September to Sunday 1 October.
A journey through history from Virgil to D'Annunzio, from Catullus to Pound, from Dante to Kafka, from Goethe to Lawrence, creating poetic waves to grow in lightness, verbal waves that induce amazement.
Some ships moored in the harbours will also be illuminated, where light inscriptions will be projected to spread messages of peace and respect for the water.

FLY HIGH, WORD
The night light installation is followed by a daytime one. For the occasion, some boats will be embellished by the artistic installation Vola alta, parola (from a verse by Mario Luzi): 200 small flags inlaid with the words of contemporary poets, again created by Marco Nereo Rotelli with the collaboration of RiVelami, a Made in Italy craft recycling project that since 2014 has been recovering and giving a second life to disused sails by transforming them into design items.
In the installation, the flags are conceived as small sails on their journey towards people and the environment. A circular economy that takes shape and vision in the sign of poetry.
The poets who donated their verses: Silvia Bre, Valentina Colonna, Maurizio Cucchi, Claudio Damiani, Rosalba De Filippis, Paolo Fabrizio Iacuzzi, Valerio Magrelli, Roberto Mussapi, Elisabetta Pigliapoco, Giancarlo Pontiggia, Jean Portante, Loretto Rafanelli, Víctor Rodríguez Núñez, Massimo Silvotti, Emilio Zucchi and Yang Lian.

APPOINTMENTS WITH AUTHORS
Four Sundays - 10 September, 17 September, 24 September, 1 October - for four appointments with the great debating themes of our time, one for each of the thematic sections into which GardaLo!
 
The meetings will be held on board the ships of the Navigarda fleet, which will set sail in the morning for a two-hour itinerary along the main routes of Lake Garda, touching the major ports on the Lombard shore.
 
Appointment for 10 September with the literature section, curated by Luigi Mascheroni, which will feature guest author Luca Doninelli.
On 17 September, Paola Veneto's youth section with psychologist Marco Crepaldi, in dialogue with Giordano Bruno Guerri.
It continues on 24 September: the ship will become the stage for Patrizia Laquidara, for the entertainment section curated by Viola Costa.
And concluding on 1 October with a meeting with Cosimo Accoto, Culture innovation advisor, in the innovation section by Giovanni Iozzia.

For information, detailed programme and appointment costs: www.gardalo.it



*Marco Nereo Rotelli is an artist born in Venice in 1955, where he graduated in architecture in 1982. For years he has pursued research into light and the poetic dimension, a constant reference for his work. In 2000, he founded the Art Project group, now directed by Elena Lombardi and composed of young artists and architects, with which he realises numerous interventions and urban installation projects. This commitment has earned him participation in nine editions of the Venice Biennale, as well as numerous solo and group exhibitions. He was invited by Northwestern Unversity (Chicago) as an artist-in residence (winter 2013). His works can be found in museums and important private collections all over the world.

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