Alessandra Bonoli was born in 1956 in Faenza (Italy), where she lives and works. In 1979 she graduated in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. Since 1980, she's been combining painting and sculpture into a single expressive language. "I consider sculpture as a space, a place to enter, a mathematical area where it is possible to live. Mathematical since based on a precise balance of weights and measures. Essential, but not minimalist structures. In my view, essentiality is a rediscovery of the original, archetypal shape, full of symbolic energy.
Cesare Reggiani is an author of a versatile personality: he started off at the end of the 70s’ as a comic artist.
The latest and the most appreciated album was born at the beginning of the 80s’: ”Le Dieci Esperienze di Orino Vientellio”.
His interest for the evocative and communicative strength of the single image takes the author to assert himself in the field of the editorial illustration and the communication. In this activity he has cooperated with the most important Italian and foreign publishers.
Ferruccio Giromini
Ferruccio Giromini was born in 1954 in Genoa. Since his early twenties, he has been talking and writing far and wide – as a journalist and a critic and a professor and an author – about his first passions: images and imagination. Occasionally, rather than telling stories, he likes playing and experimenting with words and phrases and ideas, for no other apparent purpose.
Franco Bertoni si è laureato nel 1977 alla Facoltà di Architettura dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze. Negli anni universitari e fino alla fine degli anni Settanta ha tenuto seminari sull'architettura neoclassica e sull'architettura e le arti a Vienna nel XX secolo alla Facoltà di Architettura di Firenze. Ha affiancato alla libera professione una attività di ricerca storica e di critica i cui principali interessi sono: l'architettura neoclassica, l'arte e la ceramica del Novecento italiano ed europeo, il Minimalismo e l'architettura moderna.
Gian Ruggero Manzoni
Gian Ruggero Manzoni, poeta, narratore, artista, critico d’arte, è nato a San Lorenzo di Lugo (RA) nel 1957, ora vive alternando periodi di soggiorno in Romagna con altri a Martigues, località nei pressi di Marsiglia. Ha al suo attivo oltre 40 pubblicazioni con case editrici come: Feltrinelli, Scheiwiller, Sansoni, Skira, Il Saggiatore, Castelvecchi. Nel 1984 e 1986 ha partecipato ai lavori della Biennale di Venezia, curando, assieme a Valerio Magrelli, la Sezione Poesia per "Arte allo Specchio". Ha diretto le riviste di letteratura e arte «Origini» e «Ali».
The HistriX project, born from the collaboration between the musician Paolo Giovannini and the artist Cesare Reggiani, is based on the dialogue between music, visual art and poetry.
HistriX produces music for art exhibitions, concerts, installations and video art.
Images, readings, films or exhibitions are often contemporary to their concerts.
Nedo Merendi
Nedo Merendi was born in Faenza in 1957.
In the same town he took his diploma at the Public Art Institute for Ceramics under the guide of Carlo Zauli, Augusto Betti, Alfonso Leoni e Gianna Boschi.
Most of all, this last one influenced his following work, mainteining a relation with the local tradition of the majolica object and the most cultured figurative decoration.
In 1980 he graduated at the Fine Arts Academy in Ravenna with the painter Umberto Folli, pupil of Giorgio Morandi.
Paola Baroncini
Paola Baroncini è nata a Faenza nel 1958, si è diplomata all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna nel 1982.
La sua ricerca pittorica si esprime in opere astratte dove la forma e il colore ritmano una misurata interpretazione del “reale”.
Dalla fine degli anni settanta espone in mostre personali e collettive .
É coautrice di libri d’arte editi da Grafica uno - Giorgio Upiglio - Milano, Galleria del Naviglio - Milano, Pulcinoelefante -Osnago.
Pier Paolo Giovannini
Pier Paolo Giovannini was born in Rimini, player of guitar and related instruments: dobro, mandolin, steel guitar etc.
Graduated in Discipline of the Arts Music and Performing Arts (Dams) with Roberto Leidi with a thesis on popular singing, he has designed and conducted music projects for the AUSL of Ravenna for years based on singing and group music for therapeutic purposes aimed at psychiatric patients.
He also works alongside this activity as a guitar teacher.
Paolo Melandri was born in Faenza in 1974; he graduated in classical philology under the guidance of Italo Mariotti with a thesis on the Latin poet Ennius and on his survie in modern literature. He has published numerous articles devoted to intertextual relationships between recent and ancient authors, with a predilection for Petrarca, Pascoli and D’Annunzio; he collaborates with some of the most important Italian philology and literature magazines, including «Rivista pascoliana», «Studi e problemi di critica testuale», «Maia», «Il lettore di provincia», «Rassegna dannunziana», etc.