E 'already gone a week, and I think a lot . Yet just returned home (with lots of stimuli and the desire to put his hand to the icons), the work at comics me again completely absorbed. I'm back, back too, and they are also a bit 'tired: well, let's be clear, I like a lot also make comics, finally give shape to these stories which constantly through my head and I often just not to forget, but it is summer I go ahead with this project!
now I made a commitment and I want to bring to an end, God willing it will take just over a month , among other things, than when I started I have become much more faster and definitely more aware of the medium. If you make the first half of the work I put throughout the summer (counting that I had to stop several times to commitments viaggeschi ), I now know that the second half will take me a little more than thirty days.
I can not go because I work like crazy almost all day long, from too: now, in October, I'm doing the exact same thing I did in August ... and is somewhat 'unnerving. I will go over this again in the comics? Of course! I will do just that with more diluted loooong time, and only in dedicandomici hours of recovery (instead of contrary, as I'm doing now).
said, that counts as excuse for the fact that I'm posting very little (and it will be until my days are so full), I try to say a few words about the iconographers conference held in Rome from 24 to 26 September last: "Whoever has seen me has seen the Father" .
The third conference of its kind - the last was in September 2001 (it was my first year of the Academy and the month of my first real experience of the shop) - is a bit 'an event: there was a large part of iconographers best Italian, in addition to many students of different levels and amateurs. I think we had 120 people.
E 'was nice, short but intense. Was conducted according to the formula of "conference" held in two at a time, simultaneously in different rooms. The content of these interventions was varied, more or less attractive to some level really high , things that make us think: "Mamma mia, what are back, as I still have to study!" , others more mediocre, to say the most elementary level ... There were "lessons" beautiful on the theological-spiritual, some very interesting and comprehensive in terms of art history, eventually many more really good to those who were the technical and practical aspects of iconography.
Overall I really enjoyed almost everything.
E ' was an opportunity to finally put faces to some names I've ever seen written (some of them are people who read me ... and hello!): in particular, some teachers iconographers standing as Paul Orlando ( who made a memorable speech!), Fabio Nones (good and nice) and John Mezzalira (indeed inscrutable enough) that I finally got to see live, but there was no way to talk face to you: on the one hand I think I only listen by people from decades of experience, and secondly the issue was purely practical: I € 23 for lunch or dinner is just not me felt to spend it, with the consequence of leaving the conference venue just finished hours of work and have never had the opportunity to chat except the time between surgery and the other ...
That said, I do not know if I can venture an opinion. I must say I think about it I do not know exactly what to say. First, the appearance acts to cover some (molte!) things that I have escaped. Feel like taking notes for five or six (?) People who speak one after another throughout the day, and you also want to be able to follow well all without losing his train of thought: The last day for example, the Sunday, I had to leave half an intervention which involved a very interesting - at least, I was aware of - but I could not follow even a little '!
There were then speeches that I have followed very well, as those of Antonio De Benedictis or Fabrizio Diomede, which I really want to read, even for a bit to see 'bibliography.
say however, that if the goal was "informative", ie a type class, received the documents should be more or less okay. But if the goal was to see each other in the face, to understand who we are, how we work, what do we e. .. thing (how?) we believe, well, then it is not so simple: of course, the "overview" on my part, I had it, but I'm not sure I understand if there communion, if programs and expectations of the icon painters are roughly the same for everyone, if there is a willingness to embark on a journey together. One thing I regret in this respect was the absence of Seriate school, that seems to live a life of its own, independent ...
do not know if in the roundtable discussion was thorough (I've missed them all, alas), but perhaps the question I would like to hear answered is: Who decides who is a iconographer?
After all, today, in Italy, we (?) Iconography "to tell us" or are we really advancing in service to Christ and his Church? And the church - certainly the only one who can give an answer to the question above and I guess also implement the ripsosta - is truly interested in the iconography?
These and other related questions, can perhaps be answered at present working in the same humble , done "with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind" (Mt 22, 37).
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