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To express deep solidarity with the population of L'AQUILA and to assist the artists of L'Aquila and Abruzzo to recover from the powerful earthquake of 6 April, a group of well reputable artists from the UK, France and Italy are organizing a number of community art fundraiser events. As a result of the cooperative endeavors of Pelino Santilli, Blandine Martin, Magdalena Rutkowska, a fundraising exhibition, followed by an auction have been established. With thanks to the kind support of the Italian Embassy and Charles present, the first event took place at the Italian Cultural Institute in Londonon the 2nd of July. The auctions featured celebrities in attendance and light snacks, carefully prepared by Monika and her Milcarz Table Gold Award winning team from THE KNAYPA We are very grateful for all the support we have received so far, especially from artists of Italian and other nationalities who have so generously donated their work for the auction. Also we are thankful to Sam Dunham from online travel guide "Life in Abruzzo" and Roddy Newlands from The Bloomsbury Auction House in London. There is still time to get involved. Any kind of support will be appreciated indeed. These events are designed to raise the necessary funds to help to rebuild The 18th Century church Santa Maria del Suffrage, L'Aquila, Italy.



NEW Press release.

Minerva Art Project have kept their promise, after a successful auction last July at The Italian institute in London with the like of designer Bella Freud and artist Jack Vettriano, Magdalena and Blandine are back for another auction of contemporary art but this time in Venice at The Prestigious Glass School Abate Zanetti Glass School ,Calle Briati 8 / b , 30141 Murano Venezia , Murano island, with the same even stronger purpose to keep the city of L'Aquila, and Santa Maria Del Suffragio church which was damaged by last April quake in people's subconscious.

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The big-heartedness of l'industrale comm.Ferro della Ferro Murano and Signor Matteo Savini, Direttore dell'Istituto Venezia, made this auction possible, let's not forget that we working with a non excitant budget, so every time someone give us a hand, we feel we made a friend for life"

Talking about generosity of spirit some really amazing donation from high places this time too, work from Royal painter Lady Hamilton (author of the famous portrait of John Paul II)Georgina Wilkes and designer to the Hollywood stars Basia Zarzycka will get collectors and art lovers rushing in, and adding up to the evening some raising stars from Italy and Europe will also take part, giving the auction the all so important characteristic of a very meaningful event indeed!

The Art Project Minerva, created by respected London-based artists Blandine Martin and Magdalena Rutkowska, in April 2009 is a non -profit organisation raising fund for restoration and the repair of art and is been promoted greatly by Italian Institute of culture,ArteLaguna Prize, Gesar Org (children charity),The Knaypa, Sam Flowers and many others…
Many churches and buildings in the medieval city of L'Aquila were destroyed in the devastating earthquake of 6 April 2009 causing incalculable damage to Italy's culture heritage. The dome of the Santa Maria del Suffragio cracked open, exposing the delicate gold patterns inside.
We strongly believe that with the kind support we have enjoyed so far we will be able to provide help to restore the Di Santa Maria Del Suffragio church, an important symbol of art and culture for many generations in L'Aquila."
If you are not able to visit the auction this time but you wish to contribute please go on the http://www.artminerva.org website and make a donation, thank you.

For your diary:

Auction starts from 7 pm, doors open at 6.30 pm
on Friday 27 November 2009
Venue: Abate Zanetti Glass School
Calle Briati 8 / b ,
30141 Murano Venezia
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Press release

UNIQUE AL'INSTITUT THE ITALIAN CULTURE A LONDRES

Le projet a été inspiré après les effets du dévastateurs tremblement de terre d'Aquila here frappé la région le 6 avril 2009.

Depuis cette nuit tragique, Magdalnéna Rutkowska et Blandine Martin, deux artistes peintre reconnues ont organisé une exposition d'art contemporain pour le soutien de la culture italienne à l'Aquila avec des artistes internationaux.
The intgralité des enchères evening attribuée gigantesque au projet de la reconstruction du 18eme siècle de l'église Santa Maria Del Suffrage, complètement par le ravagée tremblement de terre, depuis cette église est devenue d'ailleurs pour beaucoup le symbole de la devastation. < br />
L'événement à eue lieu le 2 juillet , pendant laquelle de nombreux artistes connus dans le monde de l'art de dons feront leurs œuvres la Cause.

Seront également présents prestigieux des noms de monde de la mode, comme Duilio Pilloni Karin Askham et Bella Freud, Lucien Freud et fille de petite fille de Sigmund Freud.

Dido Arthur, plus expérimentée des commissaires de-priseurs Bloomsbury House Aucton à Londres,a mener les enchères.

Minerva Art Project a tenu ses promesses, après une première vente aux enchères réussie en juillet dernier à l'institut culturel Italien à Londres en présence entre autres du designer Bella Freud et de l'artiste de renommée Jack Vettriano, Magdalena et Blandine sont de retour plus déterminées que jamais pour une autre vente d'art contemporain. Cet événement se déroulera cette fois ci à Venise à la prestigieuse Abate Zanetti école de verre de l'ile de Murano. L'objectif des deux artistes est toujours le même, permettre à la ville de l'Aquila et plus particulièrement à l'église Santa Maria Del Suffragio de renaitre de leurs cendres après le séisme d'avril 2009. La générosité du designer Guido Ferro et avec le concours de Sigg Matteo Savini directeur de l'institut Venezia ont permis à ce projet de voir le jour. En effet, sans aucun budget de départ mais avec la volonté farouche de Magdalena et Blandine et grâce à la générosité de certaines personnes de cœur qui resteront des amis au delà de cette aventure, une deuxième vente va pouvoir se dérouler. Justement arrêtons nous un instant sur la générosité et les dons incroyables qui ont été faits, citons par exemple: des lithographies originales du peintre royal Lady Hamilton (auteur du portrait original de John Paul II) ainsi que Georgina Wilkes. Toutes ces œuvres ne pourront que capturer le cœur des invités de cette soirée. De plus, la présence de stars de l'art contemporain Italiens mais également venues de toute l'Europe rend ce projet unique. L'Art Minerva Projet a été crée en avril 2009 par deux artistes de renommées établies à Londres Blandine Martin et Magdalena Rutowska. L'Art Minerva est un projet à but non lucratif qui récolte des fonds pour la restauration du patrimoine historique. Ce projet est vigoureusement soutenu par l'institut Italien de la culture, ARTE LAGUNA, GESAR (institut de bienfaisance pour les enfants), le KNAYPA restaurateur, fleur de SAM et encore bien d'autres.... De nombreux édifices historiques ont été dévastés par le tremblement de terre du 06 avril 2009, provoquant des dégâts incalculables. Le dôme de l'église de Santa Maria de Suffragio situé à L'Aquila a une fissure ouverte et de ce fait l'intérieur du bâtiment ainsi que les œuvres qui s'y sont se retrouvent exposées à toutes sortes d'intempéries. Cette fragilité constante risque une détérioration définitive de ce monument causant une perte irréversible. Nous sommes persuadées que grâce à notre ténacité et au soutien des personnes qui croient comme nous qu'il est important de préserver notre patrimoine, nous pouvons venir en aide à la restauration de ce monument et éviter ainsi de perdre une partie de notre histoire architecturale. Blandine et Magdalena seront bientôt en France, elles cherchent des sponsors et donation, si vous êtes intéressé a participer a ce projet contacter : blandine@artminerva.org Lithographies original Enchères d’art contemporain pour le profit de L’Aquila

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Photobucket About the artist of L'Aquila: They painting new work exclusively for the event with what its available to them, some were Able to recover work and equipment under the gravel ... Lets not forget that a number of artists have lost family members, dear friends , with their homes and work studios, in addition of this heartbreak, many still lives in tents next to what they now called their "Ghost Town" ... this event might sound like a small step toward the immensity of this tragedy, but we believe art is a great way to start again and we will not be disheartened ...

MY EARTHQUAKE

Paola Ardizzola, Navelli (AQ) 15 April 2009

Also this evening, after giving the last days of the pellets to Ingrid and Tea, we all go to bed, my cats in their baskets in the hall, Lele and me in our bed warm and welcoming, always a bastion to be conquered after day's labors, and bring balance to protect our night thoughts. We fall asleep a little troubled by the slight and brief shock of 23.30, but I just feel that Gabriel - he has become increasingly sensitive to me - feels distinctly. "Sleep love - I say reassuring - it will be one of the usual shocks that have long felt Aquila, but a little 'stronger than others." My husband always trust me, my words, and this time sees no reason to doubt my voice calm and reassuring way, as always, we go to sleep locked in that mediates all the differences of the day. I sleep soundly, but with the awareness of the fear of Gabriel to the earth a little shook. 3:32: a sound like a jackhammer wakes me up instantly, and a noise in growth, plus the sounds of objects falling from furniture; realize immediately that this was the earthquake, my brain was still alert after to 23.30. Gabriel wakes up two seconds after me, and while the whole room shakes with a hollow sound, but powerful, rhythmic, thundering, we take the hand. Both our hands are shaking as the legs, and head and heart. Conquering the door of the bedroom in the dark, the light went off, shaking, and under the beam of the door of the old stone house that is hosting us, we hug each other without saying a word, real estate, aware that they could die every moment, waiting for the earth to stop, that they will end those 20, very long seconds of an earthquake. Now and then, I keep asking, but what lasts 20 seconds? It occurs to me that when listening to Mozart 20 seconds slipping away fast, and my ear is attentive to the following 20 years, and again and again ... then I remember when I stood spellbound in front of Starry Night by Van Gogh, in Berlin, the severe and precise Prussian guard told me: "20 seconds left and then must leave the room ... 'and those 20 seconds were enough for me not to breathe very deeply that perfect rarefied air of a frosty night and shining that the great artist had" blocked " on the canvas for me. Yet that 6 April, under the beam of my bedroom, those 20 seconds never passed, that interminable chanting rhythmically violent blow from the land, once dilated takes hold of my latent perception of space / time, until they become 200, 2.000 seconds ... Finally the earth will stop, we go down the dark stairs, miraculously intact, and finally go out on the street. Also flock here once Rita and her husband with her children, Francis the old bachelor, and then with his nephew Lidia Germano. We're all still trembling with fear, our voices overlap excitedly: "Are you okay? And you? And you? . What joy to see us all alive at this hour of the night, there on the street. The tremor of fear soon gives way to chills: We are all in my pajamas, I was in her nightgown, which gave me that beautiful mother of Gabriel - that soon he would leave us - when we el'aspra Earth chosen to live does not make discounts to early April, the night cold and still winter. The darkness that had accompanied our steps and invaded our thoughts suddenly gives way to public enlightenment, who returns as suddenly as if nothing had happened. Courageous men decide to return the homes to make shoes and jackets which protect us from the cold, make sure to at sight. Lele also took my phone, and I immediately called my mom and my sister, who live in Navelli like me to make sure they're good. 're Good. In these first minutes after the strong shock, standing there on my way home, in the charming old town and as the wreck of a ship shall ensure that the surrounding environment, I hear the roar of the stones of old houses that are down, as stirred by a stormy sea that wants to take them elsewhere. It's what I hear thunder from the old country is like a noise of Nature wants to return to its beginnings, a roar that brings me to my infinite finitude of human being "on time", really nothing compared to eternity of Nature . I think at this point to my first lesson in geology and hydrogeology, the professor told us: "It is paradoxical for the men, but necessary for the planet Earth, to continue to live, there are earthquakes ..." okay okay is necessary, but right now I am concerned about Ingrid and Tea, which have mysteriously disappeared. By now the whole country has taken to the streets, in the great square that has always preferred point of encounter, exchange, comparison, and I think, oddly enough at the moment, my text I was writing for the Amsterdam Congress of Aesthetics , which strongly affirms the importance of the square as the actual site of aggregation against the outlet, spaesanti non-places. The square is working perfectly, because at a glance we can all find our loved ones. I find Mom and Dad, Frances and her husband Jimmy and the clamor of the event we decide to go to my mother, who claims not to have it almost felt the quake: "My house is very solid, has no vibrato. I woke up, I said: mmm ... maybe it's an earthquake ... I sat on the bed and everything was already finished. Took to the streets for your phone, otherwise I would return to sleep. " The demystification of mother convinces us to go in his house-bunkers, and the stonework of 80 cm seems to really protect ourselves from any danger. But it's the TV that we begin to learn the great tragedy that is taking place a few kilometers away from us: L'Aquila, Onna, pagan and even Castelnuovo, not far away, are paying the price in precious lives of the fragility - and neglect -- Man against Nature.
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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Being willing is not enough, we must do. Leonardo da Vinci


Paola Ardizzolamy statement:

Minerva Project, the exhibition has pitted various artists, and in particular the Eagle, at the prestigious London IIC, is the breath of life returns to blow delterremoto after the tragedy that hit this beautiful Italian city of defined laFirenze south. The importance of raising funds through venditaall'asta works to heal a wound to the heart of many dellacittà (in this case the beautiful late Baroque church of Santa Mariadel Suffrage, which we lovingly call "holy souls," which connotala splendid Piazza Duomo, always pleasantly noisy scenario ecoloratissimo daily market), has given impetus to artists, many deiquali during the earthquake have lost everything. Then the realization, Ladon a work means to them the first brick to ricostruirele houses, the roads which now must be rethought, .. ripercorse.Le .. the way home, drive to access the recovery dellapropria identità.Identità understood in its broadest sense, identity personalelegata his past and his own childhood, all'identitàcollettiva tied to a place and a story that in fannonarrazione memory, nostalgia, belonging, in a frantic search and compositaproprio identity. Find your own identity means dunqueripercorrere the road, even the streets - because within a vitaesse multiply - which leads back home, a home for the coveted ciascunovissuta dreams imagined denied and then looked again, a country that is casadell'anima, nostalgia , mito.Questa exhibition represents the first step for us to "go home" and for this we are indebted to friends in London, which we hope ungiorno to invite to walk the streets of our newfound-- magnificent city.