In Ragusa Ibla from May 31 to June 2, the fourth edition of the festival, curated by Roberto Semprini and Cristina Morozzi with support from Gianni Leggio, which reinterprets design, art, photography, fashion and food

Pathos and illusion, movement and wonder, awe and theatricality. And again, grandeur, drama, emotional intensity, rhythm, complexity, imprecision and indefiniteness. All this will be on stage in Ragusa Ibla during the Neobarocco Baroque Festival, the fourth edition of a kermesse that reinterprets design, art, photography, fashion and food according to neo-Baroque aesthetic stylistic features.

01_VULCANO_Roberto Semprini_Giovannetti
Inside Palazzo Nicastro, the central Vulcano sofa, designed by Roberto Semprini for Giovannetti Collezioni, with its profile will invite you to choose the right posture, lying down as in a chaise-longue or sitting as in a regular sofa. A light comes out of its mouth to remind you of its function, but it does not put fear in fact, it relaxes.

One Festival, many locations

This year's Neobarocco Baroque Festival, conceived and curated by Roberto Semprini, plays in advance and will be staged from May 31 to June 2 (installations in palaces and courtyards will be open until June 28) among the narrow alleys and steep stairways of the Sicilian town that open onto scenic squares, among Baroque churches, convents and noble residences: Nicastro Palace, Cosentini Palace, La Rocca Palace, the Theater (the smallest in Italy) and Donnafugata Castle, the former San Vincenzo Ferreri Church, the Old Capuchin Convent, and the Hyblaean Garden.

02_Alessandro Enriquez
Alessandro Enriquez will transform the San Vincenzo Ferreri Auditorium into a veritable explosion of colors and patterns. He will display the new Fall-Winter 24/25 "Peace We Like" collection and cover part of the walls with the "Enriquezland" wallpaper collection designed for Jannellievolpi.

Experimenting with new languages and materials

But what is Neo-Baroque? "It is absolutely not the formal reinterpretation of a style from the past, but an aesthetic movement that looks to the future anchored in the present," Semprini explains. "It is the continuous desire for originality, surprise, theatricality, playfulness, experimentation with new languages and materials thanks to new technologies."

Discussions and projects

Architect, designer, university professor and artist, Roberto Semprini, with the support of Cristina Morozzi, experiments and plays with historical eras every year, gathering opinions and discussions on such an engaging theme as Neo-Baroque. Students from the Brera and Catania Academies of Fine Arts and the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, along with emerging artists from the Ragusa High School of Art, will exhibit their innovative projects. Design companies will collaborate with Sicilian and international designers to create new objects with a neo-Baroque theme.

04_BAROCCABILLY_Nigel Coates
Artist and designer Nigel Coates draws inspiration from the metaphysical interiors of Giorgio de Chirico. Central to Coates' interpretation of Baroque are French curves, curvilinei in Italian. Pictured is Baroccabilly 2.0.

Installations and lectures

For the first time on the Sicilian scene, Nigel Coates will debut with Baroccabilly unique series of a few pieces, including furniture and lamps, that mix the baroque air with the rebellious soul of rockabilly. Plus, artists Dario Ghibaudo and Barbara Vicari, young designer Alessandro Enriquez, architects Angelo Sanzone, Giuseppe Campailla, Maurizio Favetta and Roberto Semprini, designer Sara Ricciardi, performer Valeria Bonalume, Edward Shin designer and founder of Via Tov.

05_Piatti Barocchi_Roberto Semprini_Ludovica Rinaldi_1
Baroque underplates inspired by playing cards, litmus test of Mediterranean culture: among the lace and Baroque ornaments, the card game will meet handcrafted decorations on majolica, an authentic link with the Sicilian territory. At Palazzo Cosentini, Roberto Semprini for Ninefifty.

A rich celendar of lectures

The calendar of lectures, which will be held in Piazza Pola, is packed with important names, among them: Gilda Bojardi director of Interni, Cristina Morozzi, journalist and design critic, Patrizia Piccinini, author and contributor to trade magazines, Gianni Canova, film critic, television author, rector IULM of Milan, Mauro Ferraresi, professor IULM of Milan.

06_B2B_Giuseppe Campailla
Designer Giuseppe Campailla will present "B2B," a sofa of radical memory in motion, whose shape is reminiscent of the organic lines of the Baroque decorations of the Val di Noto. The concave trend welcomes the user, cradles him, and invites him to let go and assume his position in complete freedom.

Curiosity, awe, extraordinariness

Neo-Baroque then as experimentation, curiosity, wonder, enrichment, extraordinariness, craftsmanship to be rediscovered. After all, who ever said that design has to be only rigorous and minimal?

Top photo: Maurizio Favetta, Beauty Barock

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