We had a very good autumn of events; starting with a special visit and drinks to the Estorick Gallery conducted by out trustee Giacomo Balsamo, inspected the Italian futuristic movement. He led our members in a private tour of masterpieces by Boccioni, Balla, Severini and Russolo.
He also unravelled the mystery of three Boccioni sculptures destroyed in 1927 and recreated this year.
For the year of 2020, FAI UK has chosen to support FAI’s restoration of the Abbazia di San Fruttuoso, a magnificent Benedictine monastery, and the surrounding olive groves. The abbey dates back to the 8th century and has its own private lodgings in a fisherman’s cottage managed by the Landmark Trust.
Continue reading FAI UK’s New Year Resolutions… for San Fruttuoso [..]
FAI UK’s Project of the Year (2019), the restoration of the “Sala delle Tre Finestre” at the Castello di Masino, is complete. Thanks to your support, we have been able to restore this impressive and richly-decorated room to its former glory.
As the consequences of Climate Change become increasingly evident in the city of Venice, most recently in the floods of 12 November, FAI has proposed a strategy that approaches this urgent issue with a new perspective: FAI believes that by taking better care of the Lagoon, there is still time to save Venice.
Andrea Carandini: FAI is calling for the transit of boats over forty thousand tonnes to be prohibited with immediate effect
In 2015, FAI organised a photography exhibition by Gianni Berengo Gardin in the Olivetti Showroom called ‘Monsters in Venice’, a condemnation through images of the violence that the lagoon endures every day. Today, four years on, we want to stigmatise and fight this menace: our cry for help is louder than ever. Continue reading An Endless Farewell – FAI Against the Sea Monsters in Venice’s Lagoon [..]
To grant oneself a holiday in one of the lodgings managed by the Landmark Trust in FAI’s properties is also a generous gesture towards protecting the landscape’s beauty. Continue reading Discover the Lodgings in FAI Properties [..]
The Garden on the Hill of ‘The Infinite’ was inaugurated on Thursday 26 September, the first FAI property in the Marche region, situated in Recanati on a hilltop that since 1837 has been named after one of the greatest poems in Italian literature, ‘The Infinite’ by Giacomo Leopardi. Continue reading Orto sul Colle dell’Infinito [..]
The lovely Georgian building that houses the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art opened in London in 1998. Not everybody is familiar with this delightful place, where one can have snacks and coffee, bask in the pleasant garden giving a thought to the generosity of the Estorick family: this is the only gallery in Britain devoted to Italian modern art. Continue reading Italian Futurism [..]
This, being the 500th year since Leonardo da Vinci’s birth, I thought that architecture is the one aspect of Leonardo’s huge artistic and creative work that had been overlooked. Continue reading Leonardo the Architect [..]
We can honestly say that our Neapolitan visit was as fascinating as the fascinating city of Naples itself, and great were also our FAI UK travellers; they were travellers and not tourists. Continue reading FAI UK in Naples [..]
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