GetPublished de El Periódico de Catalunya of January 30, 2011 (translation from Italy from abroad):
Shipwrecked culture
Living Art in Italy is becoming increasingly difficult. Powerless before them a situation that has driven many artists from the troubled atmosphere you can breath, settling in Barcelona. I am very pessimistic about the future
In Italy Sergio Sivori not missed work or popularity. Having trod the boards theater for years in Rome, at the beginning of 2010 he collected his latest success as a protagonist in a television series broadcast by RAI. Up to that in June last year, something broke. "My wife and I looked at his face and we said, 'This country is no longer for us'. We put our stuff in a van and we came to live in Barcelona. " More and more representatives of the Italian culture that will leave the country to settle in Barcelona. And the reasons pointing in the same direction. "I left because in Italy there are more than the minimum conditions for work. And not just economic ones, "said Sivori.
"He considers culture as something superfluous, which can make cuts in times of crisis." In fact, last October the Minister of Finance, when he had to justify the cuts, said that "culture does not eat." Such an assertion caused by Andrea Camilleri, writing a humorous list of reasons, however, show that feeds. "Our political class has a concept of culture closer to that of tourist," said Sivori, which has already begun to organize drama workshops took the UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona NDT), and in a couple of months will open the his theater in Gràcia, Laboratorium. "I have nostalgia for the future of Italy, because I know I will not have to see him so much and why not," he confesses. For others, like the cartoonist Claudio Stassi (author of the illustration on this page), the concern lack of reaction from his fellow countrymen: "The Italians are sleeping. Does not compel. They do not see what is happening. "
Environment unbreathable
Claudio Colombara, an accomplished opera singer who is set in the Eixample, adds: "In Barcelona, \u200b\u200bdespite the crisis, you breathe cleaner air. In Italy the political and cultural atmosphere is horrible. Everyone who can, as in my case, they decide to leave. " In 2011, Italy has allocated € 307 million for culture, while in Spain the investment of 1.051 billion and France of 7500. "Without appeals, the theaters will close and a tradition cultural, like the work, who was born in Italy, will be lost. It is a shame because there is no future without culture, "says this Bolognese, Catalan adoption, which these days plays of Donizetti Anna Bolena at the Liceu.
His colleague Fiorenza Cedolins originally from Friuli and living in Sitges goes further: "In my country there is a real cultural escape for people looking to open a chink in the art world has no future. In Italy the culture has fallen into oblivion. " There are cuts everywhere, he admits, only the home of Michelangelo, the situation is more dramatic because "there is a general idea that culture and the values \u200b\u200bit transmits are not required. " The collapse of the house in November of Gadiatori in ancient Pompeii, shows the lack of consideration for the Italian cultural heritage.
"I'm irritated by the fact that political power has destroyed the nursery where artists can grow," says Giuliano Belotti, musician, composer and collaborator of the Superior Conservatory of Liceu. "It has not done anything for music education." A concern shared by the orchestra conductor Daniel Barenboim in December, at the opening of the season at La Scala, had expressed his disappointment at the cuts by saying that culture is not only aesthetic but also ethical.
"Tell me the name of only one Italian writer or director in the last twenty years have distinguished themselves, demand a resignation Belotti. "There are directors like Visconti and Pasolini, but probably have left Italy and working in other countries," said Massimiliano Vana, a young documentary filmmaker who made his studio in Barcelona. "I'm gone for a survival instinct. Here, in return I felt valued because this is a city sensitive to creativity and art. " Like almost everyone, even Vana intends to return to their country "the revolution can not do one. It would return give up the sense of justice, the right to be indignant. In Italy bought even indignation. "
( Original article by Marta Cervera and Angelo Attanasio )
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