Art & Wine in "Open Cellars 2012"

Personal exhibition Alfonso Camplone
During "Open Cellars 2012" - 26 (afternoon) and May 27, 2012
Azienda Agricola Col del Mondo
Contrada Campotino, 35 – Collecorvino (Pescara) - Italy
Art & Wine
A bunch of grapes has a symbolic power that both sacred and profane to go beyond the simple representation of a fruit.
The grape has always been on the tables laden allegory of wealth, well being and prosperity. A powerful imaginative freedom, however, supported by a solid knowledge of antiquity.

Dionysus (Bacchus to the Romans) settler true humanity, God of Wine, grew up in the solitude of the woods, the plant lives and teaches people to cultivate the land.
If it is Apollo who gives all bliss for mortals is Dionysus who gives it to them, that excites the mind, leads the singing of the Muses, and inspired by the poem, the teacher of a more sociable and happy life, a God of labor, land , the order, but also a God of intoxication.

Dionysus seen as beneficial to men and deities to whom they related all the benefits of leisure, cultural, moral and civil order, not only, his cult is associated with knowledge of the mysteries of life after death, and this report is a powerful symbol of the vine, whose role was resumed and continued into the symbolic of the Latins, Jews and Christians. The Bible also considers the grape symbol of abundance and fertility.
The motives of the vine, the grape harvest or production of wine, show how this drink is considered a strong symbol of immortality and confer security against the mysterious passage between life and death.

Among the many virtues of Dionysus excel altruism and love for others so that, together with his wife Arianna will be venerated in the cult of the Dionysian festivals.
Lorenzo the Magnificent gives a beautiful image of Bacchus and Ariadne in the first verse of his song Carnival (song and dance made to brighten the holiday of Carnival) "The Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne": "this is Bacchus and Ariadne, beautiful, and the other an ardent, because 'the time flees and fools, again with standard content. These nymphs and other people are happy, however. Who wants to be happy, either: there is no certainty of tomorrow. "
Invitation to the joy and cheerfulness in spite of her youth symbolizes the transience of earthly life.
There is a deep connection between Dionysus and human civilization, and the key to revealing it can be art. Art and wine in their history have had numerous meetings, because wine is not only material and color, but bright and metamorphosis.
Dionysus was considered the protector of all the arts and God's inspiration, the art and wine contain both a material nature ("there is no certainty of tomorrow") and spiritual power.