Pietro “Raman” Crivelli has been collaborating with the pibinko.org network since 2011. Mostly in music-related situations, but not only. You may look up his appearances both on the main pibinko.org site, as well as in the Jug Band Colline Metallifere site (look for Crivelli via the search engines in each site). Pietro is also a fine painter and decorator. Before covering the Peter’s painting side, a little soundtrack by himself

Painter, decorator, and folk musician

Pietro Crivelli graduated at the Fine Arts Academy of Florence in 1974. In 1977 he had his first international exhibitions, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and in New York City.

In 1977 he left Italy for Asia and India for four years, relocated to Sicily in 1981-1982. Between 1982 and 1995 he was in the USA (California, Colorado, and Seattle, Washington), where he was active both as a painter and a decorator.

He then moved to Bali, where he continued his activity as an artist, painting also in India and Indonesia.

In 2010 he relocated back to Italy, moving in an area not far from Florence, his home town, but completely new for him: the Farma Valley, in the hills and off the beaten track, about 40 km South of Siena.

Here he continues is activities, combining his experiences, extremely varied and from different continents with the interaction with a local environment which maintains a very strong legacy with nature and with the history of Tuscany.

Being a fully-fledged artist, Pietro also has a consolidated track record as a musician and an entertainer: in 1971 he was one of the founding members of Whisky Trail, the first band in Italy to propose Irish folk music. He then left the group when he started his international travels, but was always active as a guitarist and bass player, with strong ties to folk, country music, blues and Afro-American spirituals.

Pietro will create original paintings, reproductions, trompe l’oeil and decorations using different techniques and in all sizes.

To contact Pietro: pietro.crivelli64@gmx.com , (+39) 366 4092413

Solo and collective exhibitions

1972, Florence, Italy, Le Pavoniere, Le Cascine
1973, Tokyo, Japan, Association Friends Italy-Japan
1974, Rome, Italy, Galleria Della Pigna,
1975, Prato, Italy (collective)
1977, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, International Etching Exhibition contest
1979, Pune, India, Music House, Koregoan Park (collective)
1988, Seattle, Washington USA, Torrefazione Italia Cafè.
1991, Seattle, Washington USA, Lawson Gallery (Collective)
1992-1995, Various private collections around the USA
1996, Florence, Italy, In club Editor
1997, Siena, Italy, Miasto Institute for Meditation (collective)
2001, Bali, Indonesia, Gaya Gallery (collective)
2002, Bali, Indonesia, Gaya Gallery, Recycled Art (collective)
2002, Bali, Indonesia, Biasa Gallery, Seminyak
2003, Singapore, Dauphin Gallery (collective)
2004, Milano, Italy, Navigli, East West Gallery
2005, Victoria, Australia, Q dos- Gallery, Lorne , Victoria (Collective)
2007, Warung Made, Seminyak, Bali, Indonesia. Solo exhibit “ The rice paddies”
2010, Tiruvannamalai , Rani’s Garden, Tamil Nadu, South India
2014, Siena, A cavallo dell’Anno, (Collective)
2015, Tatti, Italy (collective)

Awards

1977, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Etching International Exhibition
First Prize etching: Train 833 at New York Grand Central

1979, Reggello, Italy, County award for oil painting

Since 2010 I collaborate with Luciano Massetti, Senior Researcher at the Biometeorology Institute of the Italian National Research Council (Florence facility).

Between 2010 and 2012 we have shared the experience in working groups for the creation of the data specifications for the European Commission’s INSPIRE directive.

Between 2014 and 2016 we have been representatives for Italy in the management committee of the Loss of the Night European Research Network.

Our collaboration is continuing, with light pollution as a primary topic, but not neglecting other subjects related to biometeorology, environmental monitoring, and environmental education.

Contact: luciano.massetti@ibe.cnr.it

A contractor for maintenance works of different kind, and with a great experience with wines (running a wine bar in Tuscany for more than ten years).

He was also the first citizen registered as a participant in our Night Sky Quality Participatory Monitoring project, in 2008 (cfr. TG2 Costume e Societa del 30-3-2010)

Manager of Casa Bazar (now partly Euronics Point) in Torniella, and dance instructor. Supporting various projects.

Torniella, Piloni and Scalvaia are three hamlets populating the scarcely populated Farma Valley, half way between Siena and Grosseto, in Southern Tuscany.

Torniella (with the presence of folks also from Piloni and Scalvaia) was the starting point on January 4, 2007 of the Palla a 21 in Chicago project. This subsequently triggered many of the stories you find on this site.
A summary of the case is presented from different angles in two articles (Il Tirreno, 2016, and Langscape Magazine 2018).

Check out:

• Farma Valley
• Torniella
• Piloni
• Scalvaia

MS in Electronic Engineering and excellent cook. After starting his career as a buyer, in the mid-Nineties he relocated to Cagliari, Sardinia, working at the Centre for Research. Development, and Advanced Studies in Sardinia (CRS4). Here he operates as a senior researcher in the scientific visualization team.

Fabio collaborates with the pibinko.org network since 2006, with various forms of back-office IT support, and occasionally showing up via streaming.

Movie director and community manager, based in Milano but born and grown up in Romagna.

A sheperd and a poet. He is also a national expert on the issue of predators (mainly wolves) and more in general about rural issues

Max Herman is a writer and artist with degrees in English literature and information technology, based in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota, USA, where he was born and raised and attended public schools.  He has created a variety of on and off-line works in multiple media and genres. 

The Mindful Mona Lisa   

The Mindful Mona Lisa project centers on the blog of the same name by Max Herman, hosted by the MIT Press’ Leonardo journal at Leonardo.info/blog since May of
2020.  It discusses a very wide range of topics, including the Covid-19 pandemic, sustainability, literary theory, art history, networks, the history of science, and their various philosophical and cultural interconnections, all through the lens of a novel hypothesis regarding the art and writing of Leonardo.  This is the “bridge-garment-experience hypothesis,” strongly influenced by Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium (or Lezioni Americane), and it proposes for the first time in published scholarship that La Gioconda may be an allegorical portrait of “Esperienza,” the Italian word for both experience and experiment, which Leonardo personified in his writings as “the common mother of all the sciences and arts,” “the interpreter between humans and nature,” and “the one true maestra,” pledging himself her “disciple” and vowing “as maestra, to acknowledge her, and in all cases cite her as evidence.” 

Explanatory essays for each blog post and other supporting materials are available from this link: https://www.pibinko.org/out/CommediaLeonardiVici-the-Leonardo-Trilogy.pdf (15 Mb, 797 pages).

Additional works by Mr. Herman currently available online are seethebridge.org and ExperienceDemocracy2024.org/experience-democracy-is. Other past and recent works including Wrong Bienniale, Calzona Museum, and more, are available upon request to the author. 

Georg Ruzzene, born in Germany.

German mother and Italian father, grew up both mother tongue German and Italian. Fluent in English.

With a long term experience as sales assistant and customer care, have travelled throughout Europe and even outside to English speaking countries.

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Georg Ruzzene, in Deutschland geboren.

Deutsche Mutter und Italienischer Vater – zweisprachig aufgewachsen.

Mit langjähriger Erfahrung bei der Kundenbetreuung und durch ganz Europa und auch nach englischsprachigen Ländern geschäftlich gereist