Jan. 7 – Sunday, January 12, in Slovenia the curtain falls on “Maravee Soul. The spirituality from the peaks to everyday life in memory of the Great War,” the festival – now in its 12th edition – organized by Maravee and supported by the Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia. Addressing the complex issue of spirituality stretched between the sacred and the profane, Maravee staged a sort of “theater of the soul” with many personalities, involving Italians, Slovenians, Austrians, Americans, British, and Dutch artists with strong emotional impact photographs, paintings, installations, videos and performance. The large program of exhibitions and events included the inauguration of Castello di Susans Majano (Udine), which saw the presence of many young people following the trails of the Great War Museum in Ragogna (Udine). Until Sunday – at the Loggia Gallery of Koper – the exhibition presents “Anima Mundi,” a collection of art projects dedicated to nature. Anima Mundi includes photos by Elio Ciol and installations by Mirjana Batinic and Sanja Kuveljice (“After the Silence”) and Elio Caredda (“Res Dawn, res Nigra”). Anima Mundi places mountains at the center – mountains are not only symbolic in all world’s cultures, they also represent the relationship between earth and heaven, body and soul. Yet, Anima Mundi also considered the role of mountains in World War I, as a place for conflict between peoples. The Maravee festival proposed an intense and unusual reflection on the importance of spirituality in the memory of the Great War, the memory of a war that looks for peace, coexistence and the encounter between people and cultures.
