{"id":32280,"date":"2023-04-05T15:19:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T15:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eshgallery.com\/?p=32280"},"modified":"2023-05-05T10:00:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T10:00:31","slug":"floating-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eshgallery.com\/en\/floating-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Floating Cities by Umberto Dattola"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"32280\" class=\"elementor elementor-32280 elementor-32228\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7af47c4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default parallax_section_no qode_elementor_container_no\" data-id=\"7af47c4\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-02815fb\" data-id=\"02815fb\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-59ca9e5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"59ca9e5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.12.0 - 29-03-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>Some time ago I listened to an interview with Federico Fellini released in the 1960s. He was asked what was the stimulus that most inspired his way of expressing himself and the director replied:<\/p><p>&#8220;<em>Perhaps the attempt to resume, to be able to listen again to <strong>a discourse that has been interrupted, that little by little has been made with an increasingly weaker voice<\/strong> until the point that I was no longer able to hear&#8230; to tend the ears and the heart to something blurred, to something that is almost forgotten<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-57f3d15 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default parallax_section_no qode_elementor_container_no\" data-id=\"57f3d15\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-51e4b37\" data-id=\"51e4b37\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-62387a5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-carousel\" data-id=\"62387a5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;slides_to_show&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;navigation&quot;:&quot;none&quot;,&quot;autoplay&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;image_spacing_custom&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;infinite&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;speed&quot;:500,&quot;image_spacing_custom_tablet&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;image_spacing_custom_mobile&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]}}\" data-widget_type=\"image-carousel.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! 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A sort of <strong>nostalgia for something that seems like a fuzzy memory<\/strong>, with too blurred contours; something that who knows if it ever existed and never will. Something ideal, desirable for the distant future; a golden place, an invisible city, beautiful and full of light.<\/p><p>I like to think that <strong>the object of my nostalgia are perhaps ideal cities<\/strong>, the ones I call <em>Floating Cities<\/em>, for which I feel a sort of melancholy that makes me remain absorbed for an indefinite time sometimes near a window, enraptured, with a yearning heart.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-260c184 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default parallax_section_no qode_elementor_container_no\" data-id=\"260c184\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-15b1335\" data-id=\"15b1335\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a2448bf elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"a2448bf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.12.0 - 29-03-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eshgallery.com\/artista\/umberto-dattola\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1074\" height=\"806\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eshgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Fugacitta\u0300-eshgallery-6.jpg\" class=\"attachment-qi_addons_for_elementor_image_size_huge-square size-qi_addons_for_elementor_image_size_huge-square wp-image-32141\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eshgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Fugacitta\u0300-eshgallery-6.jpg 1074w, https:\/\/www.eshgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Fugacitta\u0300-eshgallery-6-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eshgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Fugacitta\u0300-eshgallery-6-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eshgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Fugacitta\u0300-eshgallery-6-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eshgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Fugacitta\u0300-eshgallery-6-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.eshgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Fugacitta\u0300-eshgallery-6-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.eshgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Fugacitta\u0300-eshgallery-6-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1074px) 100vw, 1074px\" title=\"\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1392f8b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default parallax_section_no qode_elementor_container_no\" data-id=\"1392f8b\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-cdbe5ea\" data-id=\"cdbe5ea\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c79e76c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c79e76c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Already Aristotle wrote a text on the subject, which has come down to us under the title of <em><strong>Melancholy of the Man of Genius<\/strong><\/em>, that sort of nostalgia for something elusive, that <strong>urge to create<\/strong> in order to try to give a face to an orientation to the beautiful, the just, the meaningful.<\/p><p>Here, my <em>Floating Cities<\/em> are the representation of that something of which I sometimes, unmotivatedly, feel nostalgia. That something of which I have no memory, &#8216;<strong>that discourse interrupted and made with an ever-weaker voice<\/strong>&#8216; of Fellini&#8217;s memory. They are for me an <strong>optimistic vision of the future<\/strong>, an ideal orientation for mankind, on a perpetual journey towards the highest civilisation, that of the golden cities.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1daf23d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default parallax_section_no qode_elementor_container_no\" data-id=\"1daf23d\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-201bc5a\" data-id=\"201bc5a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e01c147 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-carousel\" data-id=\"e01c147\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;slides_to_show&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;navigation&quot;:&quot;none&quot;,&quot;autoplay&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;image_spacing_custom&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;infinite&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;speed&quot;:500,&quot;image_spacing_custom_tablet&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;image_spacing_custom_mobile&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]}}\" data-widget_type=\"image-carousel.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-carousel-wrapper swiper-container\" dir=\"ltr\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-carousel swiper-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"swiper-slide\"><a data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"yes\" data-elementor-lightbox-slideshow=\"e01c147\" data-elementor-lightbox-title=\"Fugacitta\u0300-eshgallery-13\" data-e-action-hash=\"#elementor-action%3Aaction%3Dlightbox%26settings%3DeyJpZCI6IjMyMTMxIiwidXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6XC9cL3d3dy5lc2hnYWxsZXJ5LmNvbVwvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyM1wvMDNcL0Z1Z2FjaXR0YVx1MDMwMC1lc2hnYWxsZXJ5LTEzLmpwZyIsInNsaWRlc2hvdyI6ImUwMWMxNDcifQ%3D%3D\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eshgallery.com\/artista\/umberto-dattola\/\"><figure class=\"swiper-slide-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"swiper-slide-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eshgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Fugacitta\u0300-eshgallery-13-843x1000.jpg\" alt=\"Fugacitta\u0300-eshgallery-13\" title=\"\"><\/figure><\/a><\/div><div class=\"swiper-slide\"><a data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"yes\" data-elementor-lightbox-slideshow=\"e01c147\" data-elementor-lightbox-title=\"Fugacitta\u0300-eshgallery-3\" data-e-action-hash=\"#elementor-action%3Aaction%3Dlightbox%26settings%3DeyJpZCI6IjMyMTM1IiwidXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6XC9cL3d3dy5lc2hnYWxsZXJ5LmNvbVwvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyM1wvMDNcL0Z1Z2FjaXR0YVx1MDMwMC1lc2hnYWxsZXJ5LTMuanBnIiwic2xpZGVzaG93IjoiZTAxYzE0NyJ9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eshgallery.com\/artista\/umberto-dattola\/\"><figure class=\"swiper-slide-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"swiper-slide-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eshgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Fugacitta\u0300-eshgallery-3-841x1000.jpg\" alt=\"Fugacitta\u0300-eshgallery-3\" title=\"\"><\/figure><\/a><\/div>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5785d73 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default parallax_section_no qode_elementor_container_no\" data-id=\"5785d73\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e41631d\" data-id=\"e41631d\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ed236aa elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ed236aa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Daniele Mencarelli, poet and writer, describes very well what that state of mind is like, which one feels and which always drives one to search:<\/p><p>&#8220;<em>I am like a dog inside me that has lost its master, with that nostalgia, as if it had lived with him. And it looks for him everywhere. At certain moments the scent of the master becomes more intense, then everything becomes a loving presence, but they are flashes, burns of light&#8230;<\/em>&#8220;<\/p><p><strong>Umberto Dattola<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Umberto Dattola&#8217;s Floating Cities represent that something that sometimes, unjustifiably, he feels nostalgic about. 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