Efforts and good examples were not lacking, yet on many fronts it is getting worse instead of improving: he says it clearly, and even numbers, in Spoleto on the occasion of the meeting “For a culture of equality“, Promoted by Rai for Sustainability, Patrizia Aspronifounder of #Boycottmanelsan advocacy group that invites boycott panels composed exclusively of men and to denounce the mentality: “An idea that immediately aroused enormous interest and followed – explains Asproni – as proof of the fact that the phenomenon needed to be denounced, it had really reached the limit”.
If you look at the world ofartthe specialized field of Patrizia Asproni, also president of Confcultura, the Industry and Culture Foundation and the Marino Marini Museum in Florence, the iniquities are even more evident: “Only a quarter of the major exhibitions in Europa they are dedicated to female artists. In auction sales only the 2% some works are signed by women it’s theirs price is 40% lower, with no relation to their quality. Less than 10% of the works in museums are by women, but 85% of the nudes portray them. Certain differences today finally leap to the eye ”. So what to do? “It is necessary to run – she concludes – correct the asymmetry with another asymmetry; today we have to force our hand and this is also a task that fortunately even Rai, with the European project and manifesto ‘No Women No Panel’ has decided to support as a true public service: having many more women than men in their schedules and programs, to force the situation and restore gender symmetry and equity “.
#Boycottmanels has the merit of having placed the accent on paradoxical situations, communicating the indignation of the community and sometimes even inducing the organizers to rethink. “The great medical conference on breastfeeding breast and its related problems, in which everyone the speakers were male doctors, not even a doctor. I am thinking of the Scientific Observatory, the Board of Accountants, the panels of the Cariplo Foundation: all made up exclusively of men. Fortunately the Nobel Prize in Mathematics was won by a donna, this is an extraordinary indication of a possible change ”. Patrizia Asproni has been active for more than two decades in cultural management and artistic promotion, also through gender inclusion. She participates as an expert in Horizon Europe, the European Union program for research and innovation, she leads the IPOCH2 platform, dedicated to European cultural heritage, and until 2016 she chaired the Torino Musei Foundation.
The event in Spoleto “For a culture of equality”
Great composers and musicians like Clara Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn, artists like Artemisia Gentileschi and Camille Claudel, overshadowed by fathers, husbands, brothers. History written by men has overshadowed the talent artistic of so many extraordinary women, while roles considered “male” by bad habit – conductors, composers, presidents of museums, foundations and festivals – still struggle to find female protagonists, considered an exception. Today something is changing: beyond the 40% of the directorates of the Italian state museums is currently entrusted to donne, of which 39% are also present on the board of directors. But out of 14 Opera-Symphonic Foundations, only one has a female superintendent.
“For a culture of equality” also at the top of the artistic institutions is the meeting that was promoted on July 8 by Rai for Sustainability Esg and Rai Umbria in collaboration with the Festival dei Due Mondi and the Municipality of Spoleto, in harmony with “No Women No Panel”The Rai campaign for gender balance in the public debate. Discussing the theme, together with Monique Veaute artistic director of the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, also the director of the Biennale Musica di Venezia and composer Lucia Ronchettithe director of the Galleria Borghese Francesca Cappelletti, the president of the Marino Marini Museum in Florence, Patrizia Asproni, who launched the campaign on Facebook #boicottmanelse Tiziana D’Angelo, the youngest in charge of an archaeological park, that of Pompeii and Velia. A dialogue with male colleagues who share their requests for equal opportunities: from Nicola Sani, Accademia Musicale Chigiana, formerly at the helm of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and the Comunale of Bologna, to Daniel Blanga Gubbay, who directs the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels , and Paolo Masini, who with MigrArti has staged a revolutionary idea of inclusion. In light of the data presented for the occasion by Professor Marco Causiprofessor of economics of culture and creative industries at Roma Tre University, the last frontier of female empowerment is looming: management culturaland, as the patron and entrepreneur testifies Diana Braccopresident of the homonymous Foundation and at the top of Confindustria.