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The unveiled castle

2019-04-12T06:00:00+02:00

Come on 10!

BY CIRO CENATIEMPO

10 years, wow, what a force! “Ischianews & eventi”, our newspaper is ten years old. Best wishes! Did you know that Ten is the atomic number of the Neon, the famous rare and noble gas used - perhaps not for much longer - for lamps?
Ten is linked to a thousand other evocations, facts and metaphors that will come to mind in a blink of an eye: divine rules and divine soccer players; successes in the report card and lucky numbers. They are all high school numbers. But that very light gas that has Ten in itself, with its reddish tones that characterizes the old-fashioned advertising signs, appears to me the perfect image to describe our commitment.

Giardini La Mortella, a recital of Mother Nature

2019-04-12T06:00:00+02:00

Giardini La Mortella, a recital of Mother Nature

BY CIRO CENATIEMPO

The Ischian beauty tour that characterizes our newspaper makes a stop at Giardini La Mortella. In May 2004, Briggs & Stratton was considered the most beautiful park in Italy. In 2010, when Lady Susana Gil Paso died, the creator and curator of this tropic-Mediterranean oasis that was declined, linked and conjugated in (and with) all the senses to the music of her composer husband, Sir William Walton, I wrote that with her disappeared “the flower par excellence, the most original, eccentric and elegant”. But the triumphant context remained, the vital impetus towards the future of a magnificent legacy made "of thousands of rare and precious tree species, in the perfect garden as a score".

The shapes of water and love

2019-04-12T06:00:00+02:00

The shapes of water and love

BY CIRO CENATIEMPO

The principle of “water rarity” has characterized studies on the technical evolution of humanity. It has drawn a boundary - which dates back two centuries ago - between the first and the following mass availability of the most precious liquid that there is. This attention has returned of current interest, as well as to fashion, although in the meantime a shift in meaning has been introduced: from rarity we have moved on to “scarcity”. The Great Thirst, like the plasticization of the oceans, is the contemporary specter that wanders around the planet, while exploring – have a look - the ice of Mars. A subtle disturbance crosses our awareness, and the broader umbrella of (perhaps) the growing struggle against climate change is not enough to avoid it.

Sant'Angelo

2019-04-12T06:00:00+02:00

Sant'Angelo

BY CIRO CENATIEMPO

I want to tell you three things. The first. Antonio Macrì, an artist from Ischia who died recently, would always put on his cover his works. I did it: there is a 1971 piece of it, ink and watercolor. He portrays his son Pino painting in Sant’Angelo. It’s a game of creative mirrors. In these pages there is another flash of freshness made in the same days on the marina. It is the sublimation of elegant radiance, exclusive grumpiness, summer rarefactions among the dreams of the middle age, the Seventies. Antonio’s brushstrokes, which were exalted in the open air to idealize the beloved island, suggest - as the great ones can do - a world and a way, the vital and progressive moment already completed in the landscape.

Sea view

2019-04-12T06:00:00+02:00

Sea view

BY CIRO CENATIEMPO

Where are you? If you sail off-shore, on board anything you float, a little away from the human affairs, the mission is already completed, in part. Or - and you are part of the majority - you find yourself paralìa, as the Greeks say, to indicate with a single word, delicate and musical, all the rest: beach, coast, marina, coast, shore, shore, shore, beach. If so, the adventure is about to begin. Wherever your temporary and holiday point of gravity is, you’re at the sea, in, above or below, in the middle of the summer of the baths.