ART+AGAINST+MAFIA

media type="youtube" key="aT6J5txv3Jw?hl=it" height="344" width="425" To remember the victims of the mafia we have created this video, but with this movie , and these words do not just want to remember, but it is not clear that the Sicilian mafia. Sicily is not only this, but not all men are gangsters, many are honest and they fight every day against the mafia associations even at the cost of their lives ...

// Mafia and anti-mafia // //Mafia // //is a term now common in the world with which we are referring to a particular type of criminal organizations.

The word mafia was initially used to indicate a criminal organization native of Sicily, more precisely defined as Cosa Nostra, a word that became public in the world during the first Italian-American mafia sorry, Joe Valachi. // An organization power Le modern analysis of the phenomenon of Mafia consider it, even before a criminal organization, an organization for power ", which shows that the main guarantee of its existence is not much in the proceeds of unlawful activities, as well as in alliances and partnerships with state officials, especially politicians and the media of certain segments of the population. Consequently, the term is often used to describe a way to do better or to organize illegal activities.

So the term "mafia"may be used in common language to define, for example, a mayor giving building permits only to his "friends"or a college professor who does win scholarships to people related to him but also valid, or the appointment by a government capable of high officials but also "politically close" to the majority of which is government speech.   The Mafia in some cases adopt behaviors based on a model of state economy, but it is parallel and groundwater. The Mafia organization benefits from numerous types of criminal activities. The mafia bosses (often because of the inaction) communicate primarily in written form, with pizzini, since they are not always able to communicate in person with all their subordinates (householders, picciotti).   //La mafia italiana // // Organizzazioni principali // // · ////Cosa nostra - Sicilia // // · ////Camorra - Campania // // · ////<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">'Ndrangheta - Calabria // <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt; vertical-align: top;">// · ////<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Sacra Corona Unita - Puglia // <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt; vertical-align: top;"> · //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Stidda - Sicilia // <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">To combat the mafia associations was set up anti-Mafia better known by the acronym DIA (Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate). <span style="color: #888888; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Anti-Mafia Movement __<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> refers generically to all committees and groups spontaneous associations arose in Italy in the aftermath of the heinous crimes committed by the Mafia in Sicily, as well as all other criminal organizations such as the 'Ndrangheta, the Camorra and Sacra Corona Unita.

Tree Falcone, one of the symbols in antimafia SiciliaDi particular importance were the spontaneous movements against the Mafia in Sicily born after the Capaci massacre in which he lost his life judge Giovanni Falcone and the massacre in via d'Amelio, in which his colleague was killed in anti-mafia pool Paolo Borsellino in Palermo.

After their deaths, whose exceptional anti-Mafia movement has been the creator of Judge Antonino Caponnetto pool and author of the Maxi Trial that took the pain began to turn to Italy to talk to the students and citizens against the mafia. In June 2003 his wife Elizabeth continues to work with the Foundation Caponnetto.

A Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, for fourteen years, every January 8 is an initiative of the commemoration of Beppe Alfano, journalist killed by the local mafia. Initiative, promoted by his daughter Sonia Alfano, with participation of the organizations mentioned in the related items, still bears deep reactions among the public locally. <span style="color: #888888; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="color: #777777; display: none; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> **//   Historical notes

//** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The DIA was established by Act of 30 December 1991 410, as a result of the intensified fight against the Mafia, leading to the death of magistrate Giovanni Falcone, his main inspiration and promoter, and was created with an urgent decree during the government Andreotti VII, and his Justice Minister Claudio Martelli. The structure will precede the birth of the National Anti-Mafia Directorate, with its head the National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor, and the District Anti-Mafia Directorate, spread throughout the national territory at the 26 courts of appeals. The first part of the DIA was the general of the Carabinieri Giuseppe Tavormina. <span style="color: #888888; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> GAETANO PORCASI <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Gaetano Porcasi <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> is definitely an artist sui generis. Born in Partinico (Pa) in 1965, he graduated from the Art Institute of Monreale, and the degree, with 110 honors from the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo, painting section. He began his career as a professor in Sardinia, at the Art Institute of Sassari, and later at the Art School of Tempio State Art Institute of Alghero. Back in Sicily, has taught at the Art Institute of Monreale, and, for some 'years at the Liceo Scientifico "Santi Savarino" Partinico, his hometown. <span style="color: #888888; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The narrowness el'arretramento cultural ethical and social environment in which they live forced him to seek "refuge" in the unusual painting and create friendships, the honest truth, out of town: thus gave birth to his freedom of creation a painting away from traditional norms, miles away from the usual canons of 'classical aesthetics. The art of Porcasi as a motive has been the driving principles to guide the eye in the aesthetic dimension, is the brain, namely the rational capacity common to all human beings beyond their political and religious ideas. And building on the great treasure of human reason, his painting activity shows a strong charge, even very strong social protest against the sad scourge of the mafia, with the main purpose of memory, above all, the many who fell by the hand mafia.

Complaint and remember: Leonardo Sciascia wrote as "ours is a country without memory and without truth and I, therefore, I try not to forget." On the one hand, the denunciation of the Mafia, in the awareness that culture, that is a vision of life imbued with sound values ​​and ethical moral, social, religious, may make a significant contribution to the path of liberation, the other the memory of people, known and less known, who paid with their lives for their high sense of the state, its institutions, its laws, legality, lived in daily life, the refusal of the perverse mechanism of the recommendations and foolish servility that is gripping, unfortunately, still Today, many Sicilians. To remember is "passing through the heart", namely to present the rational dimension, but also the affective, the people who lost the leadership to serve an ideal. From slaves to free men fools! A deep ethical and characterized through this painting, where a succession of several characters of the "elite" and their sad mafioso works of death, devastation of the people, society, economy, the true face of Sicily and Sicilians honest and laborious.

To do so, Porcasi has surrounded himself with a circle of friends who have supported, culturally and socially, his painting career: Salvo Vitale, Pippo Cipriani, Crocetta, Carlo Di Cosmo, Pino Maniaci, Carlo Lucarelli, Cataldo Naro (of blessed memory), Giancarlo Caselli, Carlo Marino, Antonino Iannazzo, current mayor of Corleone, and Biagio Sciortino, Mayor of Bagheria, Biagio Sciortino and many other friends, including the writer, who appreciate and support the work. A painting is not so common, that can not be annoying: so the artist is often found in total isolation and political party: behind closed doors, even struck a political patronage system that does not like to complain and assist in any activity, of course, only the foolish servant, the "lackeys" (licking) and on duty " sciacquini "patent. In the face of such isolation strategy, also came some great moments of recognition, as evidenced by the many exhibitions held in various towns of the island, the conferral of honorary citizenship by the city authorities of Corleone, letters of appreciation and esteem received by personalities from the political-institutional, artists, men of culture and ordinary citizens. Particular attention is shown towards his work, by some Italian university professors and, especially, the United States.

A painting, therefore, not for profit but to denounce (the healthy and constructive termination)-remember, realizare courses aimed at solidarity with those who need it.

The site is a short, small but influential, of everything and is divided into three sections, FACES-COLORS-memory, through which the artist wants to show who can appreciate him, his long journey of painting and culture.

FACES <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">

The classical world, and especially the greek, used the term "prosopon" (mask of the actor) to define a person's face. The mask, with the peoples 'primitive', was a symbol of value strictly sacred and magical meanings associated with that activity in initiation ceremonies, rites of passage, the demonstrations in general related to the war. The face, in its fundamental meaning, indicates what is before our eyes, what you see at first glance, what characterizes the person as a manifestation of a principle higher-order in which the accent falls on the self, the difference from the simple individual and his "form", where "the personal being is not himself but himself." The concept of face, Porcasi, it is absolutely a concept borrowed from anthropological typical expression of the authentic culture of Sicily and elsewhere. That is the concept of equivalent face, deeply, that of "humanity." Suffering and joyful, full of altruism and anger for the many abuses suffered by history. A face sunburnt and wrinkled, the peasants and sailors. A face in despair, one of the victims, arrogant, that of the mafia, anxious, sad, angry or ironic, like the victims and their killers. In this, Porcasi more than attentive to the "men" and their history, ie, the value of the ethical sense of life. Before the men and then they wear the dress! Thus, this section presents a variety of faces ranging from the historic Sicilian, Carlo Marino, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, John Paul II, Bishop Cataldo Naro, all share a passion and a great material activity against the most needy, the "last", the dispossessed, engaged in human growth overall, which affects the body, intelligence and the human spirit. In this section, find the place, too, faces able to report the misdeeds of our time in and out of our territory by Carlo Lucarelli, with its interesting television, "Blue Night", a Pino Maniaci, a courageous journalist 'local television station, Telejato, the union Partinico Nino Amato, the protagonist of a series of battles against environmental pollution,

COLORS <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">

For the Sicilians, the main colors are earthy, seasonal in its various facets, and the sea. The colors of the earth are part of their DNA. The colorful land, reproduced on canvas by Porcasi is a hymn to the landscape and the natural beauty of Sicily. The colors, irresistible, odors, unspeakable, citrus Islanders, olive, broom, agave, daisies and prickly pears. Wild and organized by the farmers' work that show the two faces of Sicily: that which works, produces, and the suffering that attacks and kills.

Paintings depicting the sea, the boats, the activity of Sicilian fishermen, with bright colors and paintings that express the joy of living of the Sicilians, who have lived for centuries in close contact and feed product of the "mare nostrum". Colors and moments of sheep, together with the ancient cultivation of the vine The varied beauty of Sicilian women, the expression of many rulers in the course of history in the island.

In this area are also represented some images of Africa. Sicily, due to its geographical position, looking towards the African continent and is the bridge between the Western-Europe and Africa. This view of Africa goes far beyond the simple geographical significance, becomes a path of solidarity with the peoples of Africa need the help of the rich and opulent, but often terribly "poor" from other points of view. These canvases, thanks to a development project of the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Palermo, have been sold and the proceeds (twenty thousand euro) were dug water wells in Burundi.Non you men if you are not solidarity!

MEMORY <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">

"Denial of Death is the memory," wrote Sergio Quinctius. "A people without memory is a people without a future," said someone else. Memory is the opportunity given to every man to remember the past, communal and personal, metabolize, to live this healthy using the resources of the past without repeating the mistakes made. Porcasi commemorates the historic events that have affected the Sicily, the landing of Americans in July of 1943, consumed with the support of the mafia, (Calogero Vizzini, Villalba, Genco Russo of Musselburgh, Lucky Luciano Lercara Friddi), the massacre of Portella della Ginestra (May 1, 1947), the first major Republican era massacre. In this section, therefore, are placed the various paintings depicting men killed by the Mafia, in particular the trade unionist Placido Rizzotto Corleone, read a blend of the mafia and politicians of the Christian Democrats, he continues, in a historic path, marked by the years, house numbers are stored as a tragic way, with the massacres of the 60s, Ciaculli (1963), a fraction of Palermo, Bellolampo to switch to the killing of the mayor of Cattolica Eraclea (AG) Giuseppe Spanish in 1955, that Peppino Impastato, in 1978, up to the present day, with the murder of the prefect of Palermo, Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa (1982), the parish priest Don Pino Puglisi Brancaccio (1992), Judges Falcone and Borsellino, together with men their stocks, in the terrible massacres of 1992. It goes on with the massacre of Gergofili in Florence, the stark reminder of condemnation against the Mafia, John Paul II (May 1993), in the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento, finally, beyond the casualties, with the arrests of their executioners.

Thank you, dear Gary, for everything you did and still do, to help our Sicily to shake off the tentacles of the octopus mafia. Through a cultural journey, your, nature paintings, together with the active collaboration and proactive civil society, of the many free men and women who live in the island of Trade Unions, the Church does not colluding, the many believers of other religions, "men of good will" of free and courageous journalists, many of the young people engaged in social work of local public officials, fair and honest, (a few, to say the truth), intellectuals, judges and law enforcement,, of the many teachers committed to educating every day, through an active work and active. <span style="color: #888888; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">