Hello!

A quick note, in English, to announce that the works for our first residency program are actually gonna be underway very soon. We will be proudly hosting, right in Favignana where the ressie will take place, an amazing art historian, curator and dare I say, dear friend: mr. Lorenzo Bruni.

Lorenzo will talk on the 25th of August from the porch of the house my father has elected as his buen retiro, on the island he gave so much to when he was alive.

The residency will then officially start on the 6th of September, when mr. Paul Cupido, the first recipient of the prize will arrive on the island along with his beautiful family. I know that in December Paul has a show coming up, in Milan, at his gallery MC2, please stay tuned for more info on that and please follow him and the amazing work they’re doing together.

I’m not gonna dwell deep in my dad’s biography here, as many readers of this spontaneous and haphazard column know that I maybe wrote too much about him recently and I feel it’s time to let things go a bit. After all he was a real reporter, and very private man who wasn’t very happy to be in front of the camera, or on the other side of his notepad, so to say. But I think it’s important to state how his approach and heritage has inspired us to come up with this idea of hosting a different photographer every year.

Mr. Bruni, who is in the curatorial board of The Phair, our most prestigious fair to date, and I started talking about this a while ago, and I enthusiastically

jumped at the opportunity to partner with him, Donata Pizzi and mr. Roberto Casiraghi in selecting the first voice of what we hope will become a choir in the next few editions to come. I am inviting all of you to come to the island to hear Lorenzo talk and introduce the residency with me.

Alberto was a serious man, often preoccupied with the ailments of the worlds and the conflicts he covered, but in Favignana he would often turn into a pivotal almost father-like figure for the many people who loved him, throwing dinner parties and endless talks about current issues, and books, and music, and culture, and life. Let’s all celebrate his stance and commitment to what defines us with a nice evening of art talk, chilled white grillo and the supernatural sunset we are blessed with every evening.

Let’s all come together, flyer below.

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