WTI Magazine #47    2014 November, 12
Author : Umberto Mucci      Translation by:

Hello everybody from We the Italians. First of all, let us celebrate together with all of you a particularly significant day for us: Veterans Day means paying respect to all those brave and exceptional American men and women who fought for the freedom of all of us, not just Americans. We the Italians are those who understand that we owe our freedom to those men and women: that's why we are and always will be grateful to these soldiers, who represent the best part of the best people in the world. In particular, we like to say a gigantic THANK YOU to all the Italian Americans who have served with courage and success. We are proud of you.

We the Italians is happy to announce that we have partnered up with a great Italian artist, Marcello Placci, and we've been successful to donate one of his paintings to the silent auction of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), that took place last November 8 in Rochester, New York. The profits of this donation will go to NCMEC, whose mission and achievements have already been the topic of one of our article in the IT and US column, here.

Marcello Placci is an amazing new Italian talent, and a true friend of We the Italians. He was born in Faenza (Ravenna) in northern Italy, on 26th of January 1967. He attended the State Ceramic Institute of faenza from 1981-1986 obtaining the Master of Arts Diploma in techical ceramics, after wich he did a year at the Bologna University's Fine Arts Academy in painting. In 1989 he started to work at "IMAGE LINE" graphic studio and softwarehouse, as a co-founder of the company, doing graphics for italian editors and printers.

From 1984-1997 he worked privately as a designer in decoration of industrial textyles. It was in 1996 that he first started to paint his works as well as panels and murals. Now he is full-time in this field for ten years, partecipating in numerous public and private art exibitions, locally and around Italy, principally in Bologna, Milan, Rome, Vignola (Modena), Forlì, Imola (Bologna). His works have also been acquired by international collectors in India, Poland, Spain and the UK.

The donation consisted of one of his paintings called Migrazioni (Migrations): an acrylic mixed media, canvas on board, cm 170 x 100 (ft 5,6 x 3,3) of the value of $ 4.500.

We are very happy that we've been helpful for a cause we care very much about: one of the things we want to be instrumental to, in the future, is facilitating the exchange of donations and giving back between Italy and the US, and we are already working on another project in this direction.

That's all for now. So stay tuned, fasten your seat belt and enjoy the ride. The future's so bright, we gotta wear shades!