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Forte Belvedere is back on the scene Fort-issimo!
[Giorgio Mariani]
At last! Over 5 years since it was closed down for restoration work, the city's beloved Forte Belvedere - one of the most famous elements in the Florentine cityscape - will be open again for locals and visitors alike. On Sunday July 6th from 6.30pm till midnight there will be a free public party with music and refreshments (the bar will stay open all summer). The event will also mark the re-opening of the Fort as an exhibition venue, with Orizzonti (Horizons) - open until October 26th from 10am to 11pm - which is part of a three-year project called Belvedere dell'Arte, whose curators are Achille Bonito Oliva and Sergio Risaliti. Orizzonti will be followed in 2004 by “Infiniti” (Infinites) and in 2005 by “Tradimenti” (Betrayals).
From July 7th the admission charge is € 8.00 (concessions € 6.50, schools € 4.00), but Florence residents will be able to purchase a special card
at € 5.50 entitling them to access the Forte at no extra cost for the length of the exhibition, making it easy to imagine that the Forte will become one of the locals' favourite meeting points for an evening drink this summer.
The key to the exhibition is counterpoint: 12 international contemporary artists (Marco Bagnoli, Massimo Bartolini, Loris Cecchini, Tony Cragg, Anish Kapoor, Marisa Merz, Mario Merz, Maurizio Nannucci, Giulio Paolini, Giuseppe Penone, Nancy Rubins and Timet), will invite us to identify new horizons through their original installations set in the garden pf Forte Belvedere against the real horizon of the city skyline, crystallized in its Renaissance perfection.
On the contrary, inside the Palazzina building, photography will provide a mirror of 20th c. American society. America's greatest photographers - Dorothea Lange and Lauren Greenfield, Weegee and Nan Goldin, Garry Winogrand and William Eggleston, Robert Frank and Jack Pierson - open by means of their images a different horizon: that of the shattered and omnivorous time of the news. Under the title of "American Story", this section will also display - for the first time in Europe - 45
portraits taken by Andres Serrano since the Twin Towers facts.
But there are even more events scheduled in connection to this big happening for the regained access to the Fortress. Many in Florence remember the lovely open air movie arena which until a few years ago was a major feature of the Forte Belvedere summer nights. This year, thanks to the organizational efforts of Cooperativa l’Atelier, a great movie program is back on the Buontalenti balcony, with a careful selection of titles which go hand in hand with the content and purpose of the "Orizzonti" exhibition. The four themes are “Cinema and Modernity - Time”, “American Story”, “Art and Cinema”, “Music and Poetry”. It will be an itinerary through the history of cinema ranging from European vagues of the last 40 years to the great American movies telling the history of their Country, as well as a weekly program (every Monday) of films about the protagonists of figurative arts in the second half of the 20th c.
Finally, there will be also 7 nights of Music and Poetry, with Marco Vavolo accompanying with his piano readings from Prevert, Lee Masters, Campana, Pasolini, Di Giacomo and Garcia Lorca.
Access to the Fort will be banned to cars and allowed only on two wheels, while a convenient shuttle bus will function every evening from Piazzale Galilei. On foot you can walk up the steep Costa San Giorgio from near the Ponte Vecchio, the Via di Belvedere along the old city walls from Porta San Niccolň, or follow Via San Leonardo from the Viale dei Colli.
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