Modena. World Poetry Day: “An endless world of possibilities in the eyes of a poet”

While the series began fourteen years ago, the participation of the UNESCO Club of Modena in the events organized for World Poetry Day continues. From year to year, the poet’s collection discusses the visual work of one of the artists appearing in the “Artist’s Book and Festival of Small Editions” in Barcelona, ​​​​​​which the Club sponsors on Book Day, 23 April, now. we. After the latest publications, with the collections of Emilio Rentocchini (with the works of Carme Sanzsoto) and Antonella Jacoli (with the tables of Pia Wortham), Saturday 23 March, in the Ex oratory room of the Palazzo dei Musei of Modena. , a conference open to the public, offers an expanded view of global neuroscience, in the language of poetry.

“One nature, infinite worlds” by Marco Ruini resumes a long-distance conversation with the American artist Douglas Pierre Baulos, who dedicates to the anthology a series of works created for prints and interventions on fabrics dyed naturally from plant extracts and land. of the garden itself. “We don’t have enough eyes to notice how much, in a small way, the world is bigger,” writes Ruini, confirming how the many languages ​​that have involved him over time, of painting, stories, as well as poetry, are different ways of expressing his field of research bias, that of neuroscience. However, as Antonio Petrucci writes in the book’s introduction, Ruini’s poetry “does not come from science, but from the perspective he puts on the world, from the beauty and diversity of nature, from shapes and colors: I am the grass I tread on, / flower what I earn, / a wolf howling at the moon, / a butterfly that turns senseless.”

The awareness of our temporal existence is in his poetry “a reason to live with passion and imagination; opening our hands “to wonderful worlds”; to be aware of the “continuous metamorphosis” of life, and that habit, typical of poets, of “thinking with lines”, which for Ruini – continues Petrucci – “comes naturally. Even the use of poetry is natural to him, which will never be erased or even satisfied, but always important and emerges in his verses with an (almost) imperceptible lightness”.

The presentation of the volume (published by Consulta, edited by Elisa Pellacani, 88 pages, in color) is the opportunity of a multi-voice meeting where the author, as usual does with the magazine Anemos which he has directed for more than ten. years for creating moments of interdisciplinary discussion on neuroscience, it gives the public a conversation about some of the themes from which this collection was born. “If nature is unique, there is no doubt that the ways and worlds that can manifest themselves are endless,” he writes to introduce the poems; “It is impossible to know them all, but the paths and crossroads are so many that, faced with our limited knowledge that will allow us to encounter only a small part of what is known, they leave an infinite number of open possibilities and surprises. It is always in the corner; it is a state of the unpredictability that makes every experience, every life, unique and fills our lives with wonder and emotion.”

The conference has the patronage of the Municipality of Modena-City of Media Arts and the collaboration of the ILDE Association and the Circolo La Fonte di Ippocrene, which for many years has shared its passion and research on contemporary poetry with the local UNESCO Club . . In the presentation of the work, Elisa Pellacani (on behalf of the UNESCO Club of Modena who sponsored the edition) takes what has already been said about the need to restore peace in all parts of the world, establishing a climate of tolerance and a fair distribution of resources, and shows the main activities carried out by the Club during 2023 and those planned for 2024. The presentation will open with a greeting from Councilor Andrea Bortolamasi and a speech from Antonella Jacoli, Antonio Petrucci, Elisa Pellacani, with the translation ability of Donatella Zini. is responsible for the reading of some of Ruini’s poems. The meeting starts at 4 pm, in viale Vittorio Veneto, 5, Modena.

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Marco Ruini, surgeon, specialist in Neurology and Neurosurgery, was born in Novellara, lives in Reggio Emilia, and is the director of the Anemos Neuroscience Center of Reggio Emilia. A conference speaker, he has held entertaining courses, he is the author of novels, poems, exhibitions on the topic of neuroscience and since 2011 he has been the scientific director of the quarterly magazine “Anemos”. In the “narrative of Anemos” series he has published: Departure (2010), The hermit (2010), Covenant (2011), Silvia la pazza (2015), Mille anni di pace (2017), Gigi (2018), Disconnesso (2020) . In the “Anemos poems” series he has published: Ancorati ad unacloud (2013), Freedom of the Internet (2016), If a leaf falls (2020) and Fossils (with Marcello Angius, 2020). In 2022, on the occasion of the exhibition of his photographic works on canvas and ceramics, he published the volume For the eyes and the mind. Contamination between science and art (Consulta librieprogetti, Reggio Emilia). His multidisciplinary writings have been published in Gardening Books. Artists’ books, gardens of the mind (2022) and other Books. Artist books, another world (2023).

Douglas Pierre Baulos was born in Springfield, Illinois (USA). He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1990 and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of New Orleans in 1993. An Associate Professor of painting at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, he is co-director of ” Uab Bloom Studios” and “Dye Garden”. His paintings, collages and books, exhibited and published nationally and internationally, describe his involvement in personal and collective actions for healing space and creative production. Experiments with visual languages ​​and poetry bring reflections on the themes of mysterious identity, love, death, art as refuge and hope. He has participated in several editions in the “Festival of Artists’ Books and Small Editions” in Barcelona with his artists’ books and book interventions as a form of artistic expression (Blackout Book. Making books without electricity, 2014; Secret of the book. Book of artist, mystery, 2018 Artist Books, mental gardens, 2022).

Antonio Petrucci taught philosophy and human sciences at “Matilde di Canossa” in Reggio Emilia. Journalist and author, he collaborates with Anemos neuroscienze, ReggioStoria, La Libertà etc. He has edited some joint volumes such as Friedrich Nietzsche, the philosopher and his shadow (2002), Philosophy in cinema (2006), Why suffering? (2011), Interrupted pathways. Silvio D’Arzo and his double (2013). He has also collaborated on various volumes, the most recent of which is Nei giardini di Adone (2020). Narrative work includes, along with stories that appeared in magazines or anthologies, Tale on tiptoe, Consulta 2012, Fighting Angels, San Lorenzo 2020, Maybe in the middle of the night, San Lorenzo 2021, Flying night. fish, me Buoni Cugini 2023. With his sister Giulia he wrote The Summer of Microbes. It took place in Romagnolo, I Buoni Cugini 2022.

Saturday 23rd March 2024, 4pm
Former Auditorium Palazzo dei Musei – viale Vittorio Veneto 5 Modena
World Poetry Day 2024
Organizes the UNESCO Club of Modena with the patronage of the Municipality of Modena/City of Media Arts and the collaboration of the ILDE Association and Circolo La Fonte di Ippocrene.
Presentation and reading by
SINGLE NATURE, INFINITE WORDS by Marco Ruini, with photos by Douglas Pierre Baulos, edited by Elisa Pellacani, Consulta editions
They intervene
Marco Ruini author, Andrea Bortolamasi Councilor of the Municipality of Modena, Antonella Jacoli Circolo La fonta di Ippocrene, Elisa Pellacani volume editor, Antonio Petrucci important text on poetry.
Reading by Donatella Zini