The Prosecco DOC is marking the bicentenary of the demise of Antonio Canova (1757-1822), one among Italy’s most esteemed grasp sculptors, and paying tribute to his artwork with the discharge of the brief movie ‘Genius Strikes the World’ and the manufacturing of a restricted version bottle devoted to the exhibition ‘Canova Gloria Trevigiana’, now displaying on the Balio Museum in Treviso.
‘Genius Strikes the World’, directed by Carlo Guttadauro, tells the story of an thrilling journey – the viewers is transported to the second half of the eighteenth century to find the locations and ambiances by which Canova moved, imagined, contemplated and formed matter into masterpieces.
The narrative involves life by means of three protagonists: the younger Antonio Canova performed by Michele Piccolo, the statue of Hebe, embodied by Virna Toppi, first ballerina of La Scala Theater in Milan, and a cellarer of Prosecco DOC, personified by Andrea Offredi.By means of their eyes we seize the simplicity of magnificence, elevating the bizarre to murals, by which concord and love discover their form due to a person and his genius. The story’s widespread thread is marble, a shape-shifting materials which, due to the expertise, research and expertise of the Canova, will be elevated to the chic.
The particular version bottle completes the homage to Antonio Canova: produced from the identical marble carved by the sculptor, the winemaker finds the product of his labour in a singular bottle of Prosecco. A tribute to the historical past and poetry of Canova’s neoclassical artwork, depicting one of many emblematic works of the Amore e Psiche Stanti sequence, whose sinuous traces merge with the gentle shapes of the Prosecco DOC bottle. It’s also a tribute to the eagerness and energy of all of the growers and winemakers that, by means of the generations, have carved the viticultural panorama of the lands of Prosecco, elevating the standard of their fruit to a drinkable murals.
Steadiness, proportion and ease are discovered, in concord, each within the artwork of Canova and within the essence of Prosecco DOC. This tribute attracts this parallel, exalting the thought of chic magnificence as a journey from phantasm to creation, the place the hand that sculpts the marble is just like the hand that works the winery.
For the Prosecco DOC it’s an honour to recognise, in Antonio Canova, an Italian genius that may be celebrated. ‘We’re honoured and proud to share the identical Trevisan origins, humble however with immense potential, with the supreme Antonio Canova. […] the Maestro was capable of exalt the fantastic thing about simplicity in masterpieces appreciated everywhere in the world. At this time, as then, his works of uncommon magnificence nonetheless represent the symbol of supreme inventive and cultural expression, traceable to the terribly fertile territory of Veneto, a beneficiant land from each perspective,’ says Stefano Zanette, president of the Prosecco DOC Consorzio, Stefano Zanette.
The story of a genius formed concepts that revolutionised the world. This identical genius evokes, each day, the necessary work of analysis and improvement of the passionate winemaking artists of the Prosecco DOC territory. A gathering of pure varieties and excellent magnificence, sculpted within the up to date collective creativeness and belonging to ancestral data. Get pleasure from it in every glass.
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Prosecco DOC’s tribute to Antonio Canova
