PARTNER
The Institute for the Diffusion of Natural Sciences
ANNAMARIA
STEFANO
ROSARIA
The Institute for the Diffusion of Natural Sciences
The Institute for the Diffusion of Natural Sciences is a private non-profit organization. For thirty years, by statute, it has been committed to the diffusion of scientific culture, developing multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary works and involving different scientific contexts. Projects are always conceived to be accessible also to a disabled public. In recent years, in collaboration with the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and the Ministry of Education, University and Research, has deepened and expanded the programs of synaesthetic dissemination, aimed at enhancing cultural heritage by breaking down all forms of architectural and communication barriers. Over the years, the Institute for the Diffusion of Natural Sciences has produced numerous scientific publications, the fruit of studies carried out and projects implemented. These publications are always distributed free of charge. The person in charge of the I.D.S.N. is Claudio Rodolfo Salerno.
ANTICA ERBORISTERIA POMPEANA
WITH NATURE FOR MANKIND
The Centro Studio "Historia Plantarum" - Antica Erboristeria Pompeiana is a professional organisation established in Pompeii in the early 1980s. Its aim is to promote and enhance knowledge of the medicinal floristic heritage, particularly that of the Vesuvian territory in its various historical, documentary, experimental and applicative aspects, with a view to preserving its identity and enhancing its development and dissemination, in a sustainable manner that respects and protects natural biological ecosystems, for the wellbeing of man and the environment.
CULTURAL PROJECTS
Over the years, the Study Centre has actively expressed its work on the territory, promoting and participating in various cultural projects, in collaboration with numerous bodies and research institutes. progetti culturali, in collaborazione con numerosi enti ed istituti di ricerca.
STEFANO PIANCASTELLI
STEFANO PIANCASTELLI
Stefano Piancastelli (Naples, 1966) began working in the field of photography in 1990 as a student of Mimmo Jodice, for whom he would serve as an assistant until 2017. Since then, he has capitalized on various formative and working experiences with P.L. Di Corcia, Mario Testino and Alessandro D'Urso, and in parallel has developed a personal style.
The images made by Stefano Piancastelli are faces, bodies, fragments of landscape in which nothing is stable and nothing is defined. They are grainy images where the rules of immobility and rigidity are broken, the contours lose their essentiality to become subject to a tangle of broken lines, and the strokes become indefinite, fluid, until the image itself deflagrates in an improbable composition which, even when it tends to define itself, never lets us reach certain landings, but rather sudden spaces, altered by a game of doublings, cross-references and reflections that the artist builds through a docile and unpredictable instrument such as the mirror.
According to Stefano Piancastelli, the mirror is both a stylistic and expressive element. The altered, deformed, deconstructed image through the mirror is simply criticism-infraction-rejection of the common logical sense, without the pretension of re-establishing a new order of ideas.
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