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the PIB Team
Christine Palamidessi’s large mixed media monotypes and plaster talismans are inspired by the 900-year-old frescoes she found in out-of-the-way chapels, crypts and Crusader hideaways in Southern Italy. “During that era, pictures of the divine were linear, flat and stable; in candlelight they flickered, moved and fascinated.”
Palamidessi converses with the traditional Byzantine image-text pattern by writing dialogue on many of the images. For example, her “Internet Madonna” bemoans the shortening attention span of her dear son and worries about his getting homework done. Her plaster talismans project from the wall and depict graceful, emotional hand gestures that are meant to touch the heart and to be touched by the viewer.
In her studio, while putting together this series, Palamidessi couldn’t help but be reminded of how the past is also the present and hear the movie character Yoda’s words: “Luminous beings are we.”
An artist, sculptor and published novelist, Palamidessi works in her Boston studio and in Salento, Italy, which is the southernmost region on the heel of the Italian boot.
The human form and its irrepressible spirit continues to be the object of her study.
For more informations visit the artist website and the Galatea Fine Art webpage.
Welcome to our Virtual Italian Movie Club page!
Professionisti Italiani a Boston & the Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts invite you to join a live, online conversation about Italian movies, replacing the movie night series which was supposed to take place at the Dante Alighieri Society in Cambridge.
Click on the link below to be redirected to the movie discussion on Zoom:
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- Watch the movie on Kanopy.com (or other streaming service) on your own prior to the discussion date. Note: Kanopy accepts any library card within the Minuteman Library Network (www.minlib.net/our-libraries) and the Boston Public Library (https://www.surveygizmo.com/
s3/4197886/eCard-Registration ). If you do not have a library card, please register for one at either of the two links provided above. - Movie discussions start at 5pm, and take place exclusively online by clicking on the following zoom LINK Moderator: Mattia Acetoso, Assistant Professor of Italian, Boston College
Dates and Movies:
- April 19th– La mafia uccide solo d’estate (2013) with Discussion on Sunday April 19 – 5:00 pm
- May 3rd – Ieri, oggi e domani (1963) with Discussion on Sunday May 3 – 5:00 pm
- May 17th – Terraferma (2011) with Discussion on Sunday May 17 – 5:00 pm
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