Free to create

A blank page for a writer, silence for a composer, a canvas for a painter.
Who better than an artist understands this vertigo, transforming it into opportunity? To create, imagine what hasn't yet existed, open new paths and facts. A method that can also be applied in other fields, perhaps in the face of the most complex challenges of our time. But is there a way to exercise this freedom and rethink our lives, connecting it to beauty—no longer a luxury for the few but a right for all?

We discuss this with internationally renowned artist Ugo Nespolo, who, with his testimony at the Arsenale della Pace, recalled the importance of exploring the reality we live in through all possible art forms, because art must continue to speak to human life and be part of our existence.
Davide Bracco talks to us about cinema and offers us the opportunity to enjoy the seventh art more consciously, even outside of the logic of the market. Finally, Mauro Tabasso offers us a poignant reflection on the power of music, which, while not nourishing, warming, or satisfying any basic human need, has the extraordinary ability to evoke emotion.

The Beauty That Saves
The Stained Glass Windows of Fra' Costantino Ruggeri at the Arsenale della Pace
"Beauty is what recreates the harmony of creation. Those who experience the sadness of life, like those welcomed at the Arsenale della Pace, are helped to rebuild themselves even by a stained glass window, a space of light, a painting, or a sign... I believe that, as long as we live, all the homes we open around the world will have the touch of Fra' Costantino—whom we call the Artisan of Beauty—not only for his skill in designing spaces at the service of humanity, or for the colors of his paintings, or the harmony of his stained glass windows, but because Fra' Costantino is a man of God and a brother to mankind, and his art is his dialogue of love with God and humanity." (Ernesto Olivero)
 

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NP April 2025