(ANSA) - ROME, SEPTEMBER 14 - Photography? "It is my divita form. I live through photography". The great Salgado thus confesses in front of the cameras of Japanese TV, interviewed for the Praemium Imperiale 2021. His work as a photographer has received recognition for art. And together with him, awarded for sculpture, architecture, music, there are three other greats, the American James Turrell with his poetic light projections, the Australian Glenn Murcutt with his architecture in tune with the environment, the cellist Yo -Yo Ma with a passionate commitment to promoting culture. There is also the recognition to Italy with the scholarship for the high education school of the Central Institute for Restoration. "For us a commitment to invest even more",underlines the Minister of Culture Franceschini. Announced at the same time in the great capitals of the world, the Japan Art Association prize, considered on a par with a Nobel Prize for art, returns after a year of hiatus due to the pandemic. It is precisely because of the cataclysm that these months have caused even in the show, there is the heavy absence of cinema and theater. The candidates, underlines Lamberto Dini, international councilor of the Prize, have not been able to gather the necessary requisites.heavy absence of cinema and theater The candidates, underlines Lamberto Dini, international councilor of the Prize, have not been able to gather the necessary requisites.heavy absence of cinema and theater The candidates, underlines Lamberto Dini, international councilor of the Prize, have not been able to gather the necessary requisites.
In fact, in an all-male ceremony, the president of the ICR Alessandra Marino stands out, not without a certain emotion welcoming the 38 thousand euros that come to reward the work of the School: "A sign that it takes dedication, perseverance, commitment, but also a lot of joyful passion ", I underlined thinking of the 111 students. Meanwhile, in the video interviews with the winners, the word that recurs the most, the one that runs out in the mouth, is "hope". A feeling that is found in the grandeur of nature portrayed by Salgado as in Murcutt's architecture, so attentive to man's needs, one of Yo-Yo Ma's concerts from war theaters. Artist, philosopher, pilot, it is Turrell who summarizes this mood. "You can't be an artist if you're not optimistic", he smiles. The same hope that ignites theItalian excellence in restoration and its young students destined to bring their high skills to the whole world. (HANDLE).
