SCELTE incontra Antonio Presti

CHOICES - Conversations about the present to imagine the future Interview with Antonio Presti, entrepreneur and patron, one of the central figures in the international art scene. Among his many artistic endeavors, he created Fiumara d'arte, an open-air contemporary art museum, in 1986, and later, in Castel di Tusa, the Atelier sul mare museum-hotel. PLAYLIST WITH ALL PUBLISHED INTERVIEWS:    • SCELTE   Chapters: 00:00:00: Introduction 00:00:35: The discovery of art and feeling "foreign" 00:00:47: Seeing beauty and the invisible 00:00:56: The choice of the heart and the value of renunciation 00:01:08: Consistency and discipline in the artistic journey 00:01:33: From the loss of a father to a turning point in life 00:01:46: The 1980s in Sicily and the rejection of mafia systems 00:02:23: Giving as a business: beyond the concept of Patron 00:03:07: Being a "Heretic": Beyond Anti-Mafia and Beyond "Anti" 00:03:47: Spirituality, Ego, and Faith in the Inner Universe 00:05:23: The Pyramid of Light and the Power of Knowledge 00:06:37: Educating with Art and Beauty: The Role of School 00:07:02: Beauty as Essence, Not Appearance 00:07:36: Librino's Choice and Work in the Suburbs 00:09:00: Community, Respect, and Social Transformation 00:11:02: Young People, Technology, and the Crisis of Critical Thinking 00:12:41: School, Democracy, and School Dropouts 00:13:07: Shared Art and the Rejection of Political Power 00:15:00: Inclusion, Beauty, and Human Redemption 00:17:12: Artistic Relationships and Critique of the System of art 00:19:03: Fiumara d'Arte, donations, and legal proceedings 00:20:12: Heretical coherence and the rejection of easy success 00:21:15: The meaning of dreams, love, and desire 00:22:03: The asteroid and the meteorite: poetry and the future for Librino (Recorded in May 2025) From an idea by G. B. Palumbo Editore Interviews by Salvatore Cusimano 🔗 https://www.palumboeditore.it/scelte #palumboeditore #scelte #antoniopresti #didattica #educazionecivica #patron #arte