#Michele Perniola

[guysofeurovision]

[eurovision-facts]

Eurovision Fact #453:

In 2014, children aged 10-15 were allowed to participate in Junior Eurovision. This rule would hypothetically allow 15-year-olds to take part in Junior Eurovision one year, then Eurovision in the next.

However, this was only ever done by Anita Simoncini, who participated for San Marino in Junior Eurovision in 2014 as a member of The Peppermints, then represented the nation in Eurovision the following year as part of a duo with Michele Perniola.

She placed 15th in Junior Eurovision and unfortunately did not qualify for the Grand Final in Eurovision, placing 16th in her semi-final.

[Sources]

'Junior Eurovision Song Contest: 2014 lineup confirmed,' EBU.ch.

Participants of Valletta 2014: The Peppermints, Junioreurovision.tv.

Participants of Vienna 2015: Anita Simoncini & Michele Perniola, Eurovision.tv.

[bongianimuseum]

Mostra Collettiva Internazionale / LiberaMente “Is Contemporary Art a Prison?

Mostra Collettiva Internazionale di arte contemporanea a cura di Sandro Bongiani  con la partecipazione di 75 artisti e 128 opere archiviate nel Bongiani Art Museum di Salerno per un’indagine sociologica sulla situazione attuale dell’arte contemporanea.

La Galleria Sandro Bongiani Arte Contemporanea  è lieta di inaugurare presso lo spazio Sandro Bongiani Vrspace la mostra collettiva internazionale dal titolo: LiberaMente “Is Contemporary Art a Prison? Per questo nuovo progetto a cura di Sandro  Bongiani.  abbiamo ripreso il lavoro svolto in un seminario organizzato a Palermo da Luigi Russo nel lontano 1982, di una  sorta d'inchiesta “sociologica” volutamente provocatoria. Da quel seminario erano emersi i contributi di Mario Perniola, Ermanno Migliorini, Enrico Crispolti e il filosofo  Jean Baudrillard in cui, tutti concordi,  hanno ritenuto che l’arte  può essere anche una prigione. Il filosofo Mario Perniola, per l’occasione, scriveva "l'arte è un carcere, perché gli artisti sono dei carcerieri; essi tengono imprigionata la creatività che si potrebbe manifestare nella società con ricchezza di forme e di espressioni", precisando, “il carcere per le false avanguardie è la società, il suo astratto ordine pianificato”.

Perché questo nuovo progetto dopo quello attivato nel 1976 dall’artista argentino  Horacio Zabala, perché riteniamo che la situazione dopo oltre 50 anni trascorsi è profondamente cambiata. Oggi, l’arte proposta dal sistema culturale  ufficiale e globale viene pianificata appositamente in funzione di un mero ritorno economico sia del gallerista  che  dell’artista  e anche dal curatore di turno che preferisce essere utile al sistema accettando il ruolo di  subalterna condizione. Di fatto - scrive Sandro Bongiani -  “l'arte "ufficiale di oggi si adatta espressamente alle tattiche e alle mode pre-confezionate di tipo commerciale producendo oggetti  spesso di poco conto che ovviamente la critica asservita cerca in tutti i modi di avvalorare dando motivazioni di vario genere a giustificare la qualità necessaria che nelle opere, spesso, non esiste”. Il resoconto puntuale di tale indagine viene contestualmente evidenziato nella presentazione in cui si fa una precisa analisi di ciò ch’è cambiato in questi ultimi decenni nel panorama globale e spesso monotono del sistema dell’arte contemporanea ufficiale.

Preview /AMACI – Sabato 7 ottobre 2023  ore 18:00 -  L’evento partecipa alla diciannovesima giornata del contemporaneo promossa da AMACI - Associazione dei Musei d'Arte Contemporanea Italiani.

75 importanti artisti contemporanei presenti a questa rassegna internazionale:

Rahsan Akarsu, Kayscri - Turchia I Alessandra Angelini, Trivolzio - Italia I Franco Ballabeni, Colico - Italia I Beatrice Basile, Cassano Allo Ionio - Italia I John M. Bennett, Columbus - USA I Guy Bleus, Tongeren - Belgio I Giovanni Bonanno, Salerno - Italia I Marzia Braglia, Rivara (San Felice sul Panaro) - Italia I Mirta Caccaro, Dueville - Italia I Alfonso Caccavale, Afragola - Italia I Guido Capuano, Inspica - Italia I Lamberto Caravita, Massa Lombarda - Italia I Christiane Carrè, Cosne-sur-Loire - Francia I Bruno Cassaglia, Quiliano - Italia I Maria Castillo - Argentina I Claudia Catanzaro - Argentina I Francesca Cenciarini, Senigallia - Italia I Alexander Charistos, Vienna  - Austria I Ryosuke Cohen, Ashiya City - Giappone I Maria Credidio, San Demetrio C. - Italia I Nicolò D'Alessandro, Palermo - Italia I Antonio De Marchi Gherini, Gera Lario - Italia I Michel Della Vedova, Limoges - Francia  I Fabio Di Ojuara, Cearà-Mirim - Brasile I Marcello Diotallevi, Fano - Italia I Domenico Ferrara Foria, Foria - Italia I Maria Gagliardi, Capua - Italia I Rosalie Gancie, Hyattsville - USA I Ombretta Gazzola, Corigliano - Rossano - Italia I Coco Gordon, Lions - Colorado USA I Rosa Gravino, Canada de Gomez - Argentina I Dr. Klaus Groh, Oldenburg - Germania I Paolo Gubinelli, Firenze - Italia I Guroga - Venezuela I Uwe Hofig, Erfurt - Germania I Benedetta Iandolo, Bologna - Italia I Miguel  Jimenez, Sevilla - Spagna I Dragan Jukic, Bad Aibling - Germania I Alfonso Lentini, Belluno - Italia I Silvana Leonardi, Roma - Italia I Alexander Limarev, Novosibirsk - Russia I  Oronzo Liuzzi, Corato - Italia I  Virginie Loreau, Herry - Francia I Serse Luigetti, Perugia - Italia I Ruggero Maggi, Milano - Italia I Noemi Marotta, Napoli, Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli - Italia I Christophe Massè - Francia I Michelangelo Mayo, San Josè - California USA I Gabi Minedi, Milano - Italia I Mauro Molinari, Velletri - Italia I Emilio Morandi, Ponte Nossa - Italia I Maya Lopez Muro San Giovanni Valdarno - Italia I Keiichi Nakamura, Tokio - Giappone I Irina Novikova - Republic of Belarus I Franco Panella, Monreale - Italia I Anna Pezone  Parete, Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli - Italia  I Laura Pintus, Cagliari - Italia I Pier Francesco Pusceddu, Mogoro, (Accademia di Belle Arti ''Mario Sironi' di Sassari) - Italia I Rosella Quintini, Civitanova Marche - Italia I Jack Seiei, Tokio - Giappone I Maria Josè Silva - Mizè, Oliveira de Azeméis - Portogallo I Lucia Spagnuolo, Civitanova Marche - Italia I Renata &  Giovanni Strada, Ravenna - Italia I Ernesto Terlizzi, Angri - Italia I Giuseppina Testa, Trani, Accademia di Belle Arti di Foggia - Italia I The Wasted Angel, Assebroek - Belgio I Horst Tress, Koln - Germania I Ilia Tufano, Napoli - Italia I Ismail Utku, Rayseri - Turchia I Giorgio Vazza, Alpago - Italia I Stella Maria Velasco - Argentina I La Toan  Vinh, Montreal - Canada I Daniele Virgilio, La Spezia - Italia I Chuck Welch (CrackerJack Kid), Peterborough - Usa I Bernhard Zilling, Berlino - Germania.

Sandro Bongiani Arte Contemporanea

Collettiva Internazionale di Arte Contemporanea

LiberaMente “IS CONTEMPORARY ART A PRISON?”

a cura di Sandro Bongiani

presso la Galleria Sandro Bongiani Vrspace 

da Lunedi  2 ottobre a  Sabato 16 dicembre 2023

Opening Lunedi  2 ottobre 2023  ore 18:00          

ORARI:  tutti i giorni dalle 00.00 alle 24.00

E-MAIL INFO: bongianimuseum@gmail.com

TELEFONO PER INFORMAZIONI: +39 3937380225

Credits: Sandro Bongiani Arte Contemporanea

[borisbubbles]

Eurovision 2010s: 230 - 226

230. Valentina Monetta & Jimmie Wilson - “Spirit of the night” San Marino 2017

[2017 Review here]

“Watching Valentina and Jimmie grind in front of millions is like walking into your parents having sex on the kitchen counter” -- me during my 2017 rewatch

All of Valentina Monetta’s other entries are safely tucked away into the Green Zone, but I cannot extend the same courtesy to “Spirit in the night”. Like, we’ve already had an amazing triple act, so why do we even need this if it’s not going to contribute to that? I love Valentina and I love Siegel’s trashpulp as much as any person with bad taste does, (I could definitely *like* SotN if I was feeling generous), but this time it’s a no for me. 🤗

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229. Michele Pergniola & Anita Simoncini - “Chain of lights” San Marino 2015

 No. 

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228. TWIN TWIN - “Moustache” France 2014

As you can see, we are wrapping up the mehzone and before we do that, we need to get rid of everything that is “almost” good, but not quite good enough. :-)

TWIN TWIN are a good example of this: they have everything at their disposal for some hilarious trainwrecktitude and... don’t entirely deliver on the hilarious part lol. I mean, I think the entry is well-staged? The camera effects are good

but in terms of delivering the comedy it aims for, it falls just short for me.  I think the real damn’ing mistake is that “Moustache” tries too hard to come off as cool when, you know, it’s always been a joke entry. Remember that for future contests, would-be entrants. Always capitalize on what you are and not on what you could be. 

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227. Anggun - “Echo (You and I)” France 2012

Anggun is a paragon of homosexuality many bitches would only dream to become. Like, literally being carried around by hot shirtless gymnasts <3 QUEEN OF THE GAYS JONIDA MALIQI DEAD IN A MOTHERFUCKING DITCH. However... it is the very the staging we need to address because what on earth. The gymnasts, the ribbons, the boxes, the salto’s... do we really need all of this?? And well, the answer is “no” because “Echo” is a great song and you can barely pay attention to it due to all the semi-nude Circus shit going on.

Overall, I only get one positive thing out of Anggun: You see, she is the first real notable case (at least since I started my critical analyzing of ESC entries), of destroying your song via needless overstaging and ever since I have evoked her name whenever another (non-Azeri) contestant comes along who also suffers from the overstaging disease that I now christen as ‘Anggun Syndrome’. 

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226. Mei Finegold - “Same heart” Israel 2014

YEP, even ‘Same Heart’ doesn’t escape my scrutiny!! I mean, I loved the song in studio, as I’m sure nearly all of us did. “Same heart” is, to use the present-day terminology, a “banger”. 

However, the ESC performance of “Same Heart” just... didn’t live up to the hype. I think the problem is more or less two-fold: firstly, Mei’s vocal technique is one of slooooowly drawwwwling ouuuut wooooooords in that contralto voice of hers, which isn’t a great idea when your song is uptempo and bouncy. Secondly, death by wideshot.

She just looked lost and not found on the stage. Mei really could’ve been one of the all-time best; however, she wasn’t, so where do I rank her? In the mehzone, where she belongs. 😈

[eurovisionopinions]

[hunter-of-no]

A tribute to Valentina Monetta Bonus: 

I’m Lace Girl 

[eurenvision]

Michele Perniola: No.

Me: NO!

[arabela25]

@trinklied I have been thinking about this and here are my conclusions:

It's for San Marino - they're the smallest nation competing which always grants them underdog status. They're also great in the media/meme game. We love them and we want them to succeed. San Marino getting a famous American rapper to be in their Eurovision entry is W I L D. How did that even happen? It seems unbelievable but it's true

I say above he's a famous rapper, which is accurate, but he's not a Recognizable International Superstar. Check this post to understand what I mean

He's only a guest singer. He's not credited as the artist, only Senhit is. She's still the one taking the lead.

He's in Eurovision as a competitor not as a special guest, which puts him on the same level as Uku Suviste and Destiny. He's just one in 40+ artists participating this year. Yes, he missed the first rehearsals and events, he's a busy man, but he had his 3 minutes on stage like everyone else, he had to anxiously wait for the results in the green room like everyone else, he did the press conference like everyone else. He qualified, he's earned his place in the show tonight

Special guests like Timberlake and Madonna were given minutes of air time for being worldwide stars. That's not what we want in Eurovision! Why are these Americans taking the stage and the attention? Give us the superstars of the hosting country! Give us a medley of older winners and participants (but dear lord anyone else than Måns!).

So, tldr: famous Americans taking center stage in interval acts? As Michele Perniola once said, "no." Famous Americans featuring in the sanmarinese eurovision entry? I don't know how the hell that happened but sure! I hope he has fun!

[eurovisionsongaday]

Oh! This is why I mix up that Cypriot song about fireflies with San Marino! Also, both these singers are grads from the Junior Eurovision!

[perfettamentechic]

6 settembre … “i nati oggi”

Buon Compleanno a … “i nati oggi”

1998: Michele Perniola, personaggio televisivo e cantante italiano

1985: Luz Cipriota, attrice e modella argentina

1984: Thyago Alves, modello e attore brasiliano

1982: Valentina Patruno, modella e conduttrice televisiva venezuelana

1925: Andrea Camilleri, scrittore, sceneggiatore e regista italiano

Autore: Lynda Di Natale

[guysofeurovision]

do you find any jesc participants attractive?

Michele Perniola, Fabian Feyaerts and Antonio José ☺️

[hunter-of-no]

Ermal is basically the voice of reason of Amici

hiiiiiii. :) can you tell us non italians about this show: amici. we can't really watch it. what;s it about, what;s ermal like in it? thnaks.

well, i’ve only ever watched like 3, maybe 4 episodes and only bc of ermal, who is one of the judges. It’s basically a talent show in which two teams made up of both singers and dancers compete against each other except it doesnt really matter cause only one person wins in the end.

It’s a mess and no one really understands what’s going on 100% of the time but it’s trashy and dramatic and it’s all im here for lol

[maschasrankings]

2015: Top 40

Montenegro: Knez - Adio

Norway: Mørland & Debrah Scarlett - A Monster Like Me

Latvia: Aminata - Love Injected

Estonia: Elina Born & Stig Rästa - Goodbye To Yesterday

Portugal: Leonor Andrade - Há Um Mar Que Nos Separa

Albania: Elhaida Dani - I'm Alive

Ireland: Molly Sterling - Playing With Numbers

Armenia: Genealogy - Face The Shadow

Georgia: Nina Sublatti - Warrior

Austria: The Makemakes - I Am Yours

Spain: Edurne - Amanecer

Israel: Nadav Guedj - Golden Boy

Serbia: Bojana Stamenov - Beauty Never Lies

Italy: Il Volo - Grande Amore

Slovenia: Maraaya - Here For You

Azerbaijan: Elnur Hüseynov - Hour Of The Wolf

Germany: Ann Sophie - Black Smoke

Malta: Amber - Warrior

Greece: Maria Elena Kyriakou - One Last Breath

Iceland: Maria Olafs - Unbroken

Belgium: Loïc Nottet - Rythmn Inside

North Macedonia: Daniel Kajmakoski - Autumn Leaves

Belarus: Uzari & Maimuna - Time

Cyprus: John Karyiannis - One Thing I Should Have Done

Australia: Guy Sebastian - Tonight Again

Romania: Voltaj - De La Capăt

Netherlands: Trijntje Oosterhuis - Walk Along

France: Lisa Angell - N'Oubliez Pas

United Kingdom: Electro Velvet - Still In Love With You

Finland: Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät - Aina Mun Pitää

Poland: Monika Kuszyńska - In The Name Of Love

Sweden: Måns Zelmerl��w - Heroes

Russia: Polina Gagarina - A Million Voices

Hungary: Boggie - Wars For Nothing

Lithuania: Monika Linkytė & Vaidas Baumila - This Time

Moldova: Eduard Romanyuta - I Want Your Love

Switzerland: Mélanie René - Time To Shine

San Marino: Anita Simoncini & Michele Perniola - Chain Of Lights

Czech Republic: Marta Jandová & Václav Noid Bárta - Hope Never Dies

Denmark: Anti Social Media - The Way You Are

[aprilskyforever]

FMK Alex Larke, Michele Perniola, Serhat

oh jeez… f alex, m serhat, k michele??? i really don’t know

[eurovisionopinions]