... even with clear and evident differences in the use of materials, it can certainly be said that the two authors share the same poetic language, which has roots in natural cycles, in the everlasting symbols of myths and fairy tales, preserved in the breath of time, of history, evoking emotions related to our memories ...
TONINO NEGRI (Lodi, 1961) trained in the art profession by attending artists and artisans with whom he has collaborated since 80 in various artistic enterprises - theater - ceramics - sculpture - installations.
He runs his own laboratory-workshop in Lodi of applied arts and ceramics. In 1993 he founded the Bottega del respir at the Il Gabbiano community (until 2003)
He has created large installations in squares, parks and churches with the use of terracotta and other materials. He also deals with theater with some directories and / or in collaboration with other directors for the construction of scenographies. He makes several trips to Italy and abroad to meet the world of crafts and art.
MARCELLO CHIARENZA , born in Sicily in 1955, graduated in architecture from the Polytechnic of Milan, has been working for decades in the field of symbolic figuration and dramaturgy of the festival, in the various roles of sculptor, painter, set designer, workshop conductor, author and theater director .
The themes he prefers are internal to the symbolic body of the solar year, to the elements of nature, to the cycle of seasons. These are themes that arise from the images kept by the breath of time, from the spiritual memory that history of religions and deep psychology study, emerge from the myths and fairy tales, from the immortal language that continues to speak to us through the forms of symbols.
