"The purpose of this magnificent journey of mine is not to delude myself, but to know myself." (Goethe)
What feelings does Italy evoke in your mind?
Just the words “Bel Paese” are enough to awaken in the memory images of simple, slow life. Photographs of sweet and convivial moments spent with loved ones, preferably around a dining table. Glimpses of ancient landscapes that despite the passage of time continue to live side by side with modernity. Places where memory insinuates its magic into everyday life.
Each area of the peninsula has its own cultural traditions, especially culinary, its own memories, colours and scents, and over the centuries this has created such a diversity that is appreciated by anyone who visits this land.
Gio Bressana guides us with his artistic eye to discover his favourite corners of the Italian peninsula.
The scent of the sea and Mediterranean vegetation, the sour juice of lemons, the cypress needles, the juniper berries. Every scenery and every detail has a story to tell and a lesson to teach. It will be essential to take the time to see, not just look, to savour with the eyes, the senses and the heart, to absorb all that the places will be able to convey.
In a world that forces us to rush from one project to another to arrive tired and stressed at the end of the day, art gives us the opportunity to stop all the clocks and go on a journey. Body and mind will be transported by the aesthetics of the places we pass through.
The passage of time reverses itself and takes us back to a time when journeys were made on horseback and without a mobile phone. We return to a time when perception and the way of measuring time and life were completely different from nowadays.
Slowing down seems to be the only way to survive today's hectic life, so why not take the opportunity to start a journey?
