THE CANVASES OF PEACE, SOUNDTRACKS OF THE SOUL When Art Meets the Breath of Cinema

THE CANVASES OF PEACE, SOUNDTRACKS OF THE SOUL When art meets the breath of cinema On Friday, July 18, at 9:30 a.m. in Piazza della Transalpina, artist and sociologist Francesca Chialà will lead a new Body Art Performance to celebrate her mosaic sculpture “The Vitruvian Woman”: children will paint the Canvases of Peace to the music of Ferzan Ozpetek's films, in a poetic gesture that intertwines participatory art and auteur cinema, in collaboration with the "Sergio Amidei" International Prize.

In the center of the square, around the stone mosaic circle placed in place of the wall demolished in 2004 and symbolizing the new Europe, Chialà will arrange four large 40-meter canvases during the performance, giving shape to an enormous square.

Encouraged by the music, the children will paint the long Peace Canvases with their hands and feet, transforming them into collective works through body language and color.

A participatory action that recalls Leonardo's two geometric symbols, the circle and the square, which also frame the mosaic sculpture "The Vitruvian Woman": the circle, symbol of heaven and spiritual perfection, and the square, an image of the earth to be protected and cherished.

The profound meaning of the Performance is fulfilled in the harmony between these two forms: taking root in reality to reach towards the ideal, uniting bodies and hearts to build a future of Peace, right where a barrier once existed.

In this arrangement the canvases will become marvelous theatrical wings, living sets that narrate a new humanism founded on the harmony of gesture.

The same large colored canvases will be painted on the other side at the inauguration of the mosaic sculpture The Vitruvian Woman, a synthesis of East and West, Masculine and Feminine.

Sustainable and reusable, the canvases will transform from artwork to stage: the back comes to life, the canvas becomes choral, the materials are regenerated. A symbolic and concrete gesture, perfectly in line with the event's environmental awareness.

The hands and feet of the children, Italian and Slovenian, will become living brushes and will paint stimulated by the soundtracks of Ferzan Ozpetek's films.

An emotional score that transforms the square into a living symphony, in which visual art and auteur cinema merge.

The connection between Chialà's Vitruvian Woman and Ozpetek's poetics is profound, particularly in his latest film, "Diamonds": both works celebrate the balance between the opposite poles of the human being, the delicacy of relationships, the reconciliation between soul and body.

Even more symbolically, this dialogue is strengthened by the Turkish roots of Ozpetek, a director born in Istanbul and artistically raised in Italy, a bridge-building figure between Western and Eastern Europe.

In Gorizia, a city that symbolizes the border that has long divided Europe, the Performance highlights this dual identity, promoting the overcoming of divisions and the building of an open and inclusive dialogue.

Thus, in the square that was once a wall and now a bridge, art becomes a shared gesture, an act of peace and dialogue between cultures, entrusting children with the task of showing a new path, capable of uniting different identities, generations, and worldviews.

The 7 colors of Peace fill the canvases in an artistic act of memory, care, and hope, with a thought for the child victims of war, and in particular the children of Gaza.

Art becomes a gentle and powerful voice to affirm the right to childhood and beauty.

The Body Art Performance is promoted by the artistic movement "La FESTA delle 7 ARTI," founded by Francesca Chialà to connect visual arts, dance, music, theater, poetry, cinema, and sport, supporting Human and Environmental Rights through the Gift Economy.

All his performances are public, free, and open, because art—in his view—is a common good that must be accessible to all.

Each event is a community ritual, an act of collective care that dissolves the boundaries between artist and spectator.

Each year, the Amidei Award awards its prestigious Best Author's Work Prize to a director who has built an original and recognizable path as an author.

This year, the award goes to Ferzan Ozpetek, for his unique style, intense poetry, and pure, eccentric gaze that has captured intimacy, relationships, and identities in a profoundly human way.

Performing arts and cinema come together in Piazza della Transalpina to welcome the symbolic energy of the mosaic sculpture "The Vitruvian Woman," which will be on display throughout the European Capital of Culture.