Month: Marzo 2026

  • Era lì da sempre
    tessuto, gesso, acrilico, rocce
    Installazione ambientale, misure variabili, 2019
  • Vista dell’installazione a Casa Testori, Novate Milanese, Milano. Foto di Michele Alberto Sereni
    Vista dell’installazione e dettagli KH Messen, Ålvik, Norvegia

 

  1. It has been there forever
    Fabrics, plaster, acrylics, rocks
    Site specific installation, variable dimensions, 2019
  2. Installation view at Casa Testori, Novate Milanese, Milan. Photo Credits by Michele Alberto Sereni
  3. Installation view and details KH Messen, Ålvik, Norway

  • La fortuna interiore
  • 26”07′, colore, stereo sound, 2020
  • Regia Lucia Veronesi e Valentina Bonifacio
    Montaggio video Lucia Veronesi e Valentina Bonifacio
    Animazioni Lucia Veronesi
    Riprese Lucia Veronesi e Giuseppe Drago
    Montaggio audio Valentina Bonifacio e Lucia Veronesi
    Supporto audio postproduzione Marian Alexander Mentrup
  • Fra i bianchi intonaci e i coni grigi dei tetti, all’improvviso si sprigionano colori sgargianti: una cupola a spicchi rossi e gialli, archi e capitelli di panna in cima a candide colonne. É il tempio dell’Ashram, luogo dedicato a Babaji Haidakhan Baba, uno dei primi costruiti in Occidente. Da quarant’anni spicca fra i trulli di Cisternino, nella Valle d’Itria, in Puglia.
  • Lo ha fondato Lisetta Carmi, figura cardinale del Novecento artistico italiano. Nata a Genova da una famiglia di origine ebraica, alla fine degli anni Settanta costruisce l’Ashram con il suo tempio, che riproduce perfettamente quello di Haidakhan, un paesino indiano alle pendici dell’Himalaya, dove nel 1970 Babaji apparve per la prima volta, e dove avvenne il primo incontro con Lisetta.
  • Inizia così, nel 1979, a cinquantacinque anni, la “terza vita” di Lisetta Carmi, come lei stessa la definisce, dopo quelle di pianista e fotografa di fama internazionale.
  • Attraverso il suo ritratto da vicino e altre interviste, La fortuna interiore indaga l’interazione che si è creata tra il luogo, i suoi abitanti e chi per stare vicino all’Ashram ha deciso di trasferirsi in Valle d’Itria.

 

  1. The inner fortune
  2. 26”07′, colour, stereo sound, 2020
  4. Directors Lucia Veronesi and Valentina Bonifacio
    Editing Lucia Veronesi and Valentina Bonifacio
    Animation Lucia Veronesi
    Shooting Lucia Veronesi and Giuseppe Drago
    Audio Valentina Bonifacio and Lucia Veronesi
    Audio postoproduction Marian Alexander Mentrup
  6. Among the white plasters and the grey cones of the roofs, suddenly bright colors are released: a dome with red and yellow segments, arches and capitals of cream on top of white columns. It is the temple of the Ashram, a place dedicated to Babaji Haidakhan Baba, one of the first built in the West. For forty years it has stood out among the trulli of Cisternino, in the Valle d’Itria, in Puglia.
  7. Lisetta Carmi, a cardinal figure of the Italian artistic twentieth century, founded it. Born in Genoa to a family of Jewish origin, at the end of the seventies she built the Ashram with her temple, which perfectly reproduces that of Haidakhan, an Indian village on the slopes of the Himalayas, where Babaji appeared for the first time in 1970, and where she met Lisetta for the first time.
  8. Thus began, in 1979, at the age of fifty-five, the “third life” of Lisetta Carmi, as she herself defines it, after those of pianist and photographer of international fame.Through her close-up portrait and other interviews, La fortuna interiore investigates the interaction that has been created between the place, its inhabitants and those who decided to move to the Itria Valley to stay close to the Ashram.

  • Living Under Water (Commissioned work)
  • A Jewish Exploration of Climate Change, 2019
  • colours, stereo sound, 6′ 48”
  • A project by Beit Venezia with the collaboration of Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice
  • Artists: Andi Arnovitz, Ken Goldman, Lynne Avadenka, Leora Wise, Meydad Eliyahu
  • Still from video and installation view at The Wolfson Museum of Jewish Art, Jerusalem. Photo Credits by Elad Sarig
  • Beit Venezia has invited five international artists to Venice, a uniquely inspiring but also fragile city, to provide a Jewish creative response to the most severe challenge facing humankind today: climate change.
  • The residency is focused on production, experience, critical discourse, networking, and participation with the local community. Using contemporary essays by both biblical and environmental scholars, these artists will explore the role of climate change as it relates to Venice, to Jewish history and to the artist’s country of origin and country of residence.
  • Complementing the three weeks’ residency in Venice in October 2018, primarily centered in the Ghetto and in the Scuola Internazionale di Arte Grafica, is a commitment to the group of almost a year’s duration. There will be artistic interventions that will be passed from artist to artist as well as several other components that will eventually all be combined to create a vibrant, thought-provoking, visual, educational zine.  The zine will be four color, oversize and forty pages, designed by a professional graphic design studio and professionally printed. The final aim of the project is to raise awareness about climate change in Jewish communities and beyond.
  • This video is the documentation of the Residency in Venice. Presented for the first time in the 4th Edition of the Biennale of Jerusalem in October 2019.