ART & CULTURE

Each historical building is the evidence of past cultures, and the small church of Beata Vergine delle Grazie in Casorzo hides something quite special about it. The walls are a diary...

01 August, 2016 /

Update: check the complete list of public UNESCO's Infernot below.     What is it an Infernot?   I’ll start with a sort of ‘coming-out’: I didn’t know what Infernot were, until about a year ago....

01 April, 2016 /

It may seem strange entitle a museum to a stone, but a visit to the Ecomuseo della Pietra da Cantoni clarifies why this unique material is so important to the...

15 April, 2015 /

  I walked through the door. A quiet, well-mannered gentleman welcomed me into his house: Renato Luparia and with him, his wife, painter Nadia Presotto, whom we had already met some...

18 January, 2015 /

Since 2002 the "Film’s Games" competition of MonFilmFest transformed the hills of Monferrato in a film set. A rush-hour competition for seven troupes of international filmmakers are invited every year...

04 September, 2014 /

  We received an e-mail from Eraldo Ghietti with a small biography and some paint attached. The message was almost laconic, but the pictures said a lot. So the curiosity brings...

30 July, 2014 /

"The past lives in the present and goes into the future through art". With this sentence, Nadia Presotto welcomes us into her colourful home in S. Maurizio di Conzano.   Her studio...

17 June, 2014 /

“When people ask me what is the meaning of painting, I answer: it is simple, is just my life!”. A sentence that emphasises not only Shozo Koike commitment and passion, but...

16 July, 2013 /