Manifesto

1.⁠ ⁠We proclaim the profound beauty of slowness: the long time of waiting, of error, of doubt is the true fire that forges the work.

2.⁠ ⁠We believe in drawing as thought: every mark is a decision, every line a fragment of embodied vision.

3.⁠ ⁠We reject the sterile urgency of speed, of instant products, of art as commodity: what has value is born in silence and sharpened over time.

4.⁠ ⁠We honor the great Italian masters not to imitate them, but to ignite our creative will at their flame.

5.⁠ ⁠We seek an art that sinks its roots into the Renaissance and the Baroque, absorbing their essence, tension, and depth.

6.⁠ ⁠We declare that imperfection is life: the smudge, the raw mark, the reconsideration are precious traces of the human passage within the work.

7.⁠ ⁠We exalt the materials—pigments, glues, binders, supports—as living elements to be known, respected, and mastered.

8.⁠ ⁠We embrace science and technology not as oracles, but as allies of the hand, instruments of the mind and the heart.

9.⁠ ⁠We claim the need for a fertile environment, where the artist can fail, doubt, rise again, grow: the workshop is community.

10.⁠ ⁠We proclaim the value of self-knowledge through the image: those who cannot see within themselves cannot create for the world.

11.⁠ ⁠We seek an academy of inner transformation: every work is the chrysalis of a change, every painting a portrait of the soul.

12.⁠ ⁠The Mirabile Fucina is our testing ground: not a sterile temple, but a blazing workshop where the metal of the artist is bent, tempered, and revealed.