The meaning of human existence as a daily dialectic of our life. The origin of things, their end, but also and together a new beginning. Maximum concepts that, transcending from any faith, accompany the history of the world, illustrated from an Artistic Diptych.

Genesis is told through the material suggestions of Maestro Sandro Chia. Vivid images recreate an evocative Sistine Chapel.

The **Apocalypse** is entrusted to the creative originality of director Saskia Boddeke & Peter Greenaway. Poetry and metaphor of an installation emphasize the universality of human rights.

The introductory performance, on the occasion only of the opening of the Diptych, features philosophers and poets: Massimo Cacciari and** Erri De Luca **investigate the substance of this dual human experience, introduced by the narrative of art historian, Lea Mattarella, punctuated from musical pieces with Giovanni Sollima, Raiz and Divna.

The beginning and the fulfillment

One would have to start with the last words of Revelation, going back up to the earliest ones, to be able to to contain in one glance what is most intimate and profoundly begun to to be said about the human in Genesis.

And it is from always the artists and poets who have given shape and sound to this flash of vitality before time and to its fulfillment in the fullness of days.

One has to love life intensely in its most varied expressions to want to know from what origin, from what passion, all this began; and to be pervaded by the frenzy of running with the imagination along the paths that the Promise - in every corner of the most diverse spiritualities - has bestowed as hope and momentum.

And so two artists, like two blind seers, ventured inside the unheard sound of Bereshit; and then, after Maràna tha, chose to continue into the radiant future of what is gradually revealed. Nothing like song and music can complete such a bold immersion: into the depths of time past and the infinity of time promised. With no more fear or dread: of what we have been and what is being revealed. Sharpening sensitivity and awakening it so that we can still feel the breath of those first moments and the thunder of what lies ahead.

Quirino Conti