Ars Sine Finibus is the new cross-border artistic project that unites Italy and Slovenia, born in collaboration between Galleria MAG of Como, Studio Giorgio Celiberti of Udine and the wineries Gradis’ciutta of San Floriano (Gorizia) and Sinefinis D.o.o., of Kojsko (SLO) want to transform the vineyards of Collio and Brda into an open-air museum. The initiative aims to promote sustainable art through installations and sculptures made with recycled materials, celebrating the union between nature and culture. A key element of the project is the 30 Under 35 competition, which will involve 30 young emerging artists, divided into mixed Italian-Slovenian couples. Participants will have the opportunity to create unique works that will be exhibited in the vineyards and will be freely accessible to the public. The aim is not only to enhance emerging creativity, but also to strengthen the cultural dialogue between the two countries, stimulating a new generation of artists with an authentically European vision. Interested artists, aged between 18 and 35 and resident in Italy or Slovenia, can apply by following the instructions available on the official website. The deadline for registration is set for April 6.
Ars Sine Finibus Sinefinis: from the artistic project to the oenological one
The cross-border art project Ars Sine Finibus was born from one thought: that of wine. When Robert Princic decided to deepen his studies during a master’s degree in wine business he met Matjaz Cetrtic, a fellow student who lives in the Brda region in Slovenia: as a graduation thesis they decided to create a wine that unites the two wine-growing areas of Collio and Brda, which once belonged to the same production area and which were later divided by the border.
As a sign of the union of the two territories, Sinefinis was born, whose Latin-inspired term refers to the absence of borders and ends: a sparkling Ribolla Gialla, produced with Italian Ribolla and Slovenian Rebula grapes and with the Classic Method, with refermentation in the bottle and long aging on the yeasts.
Often used to seal meetings between European Heads of State, Sinefinis can be defined as a wine “Made in Europe”.
“It works like this: each of us vinifies a base and then we assemble the two masses”, says Robert Princic. ”At the beginning it was a game and then we created a company. The grape variety we use in purity is Ribolla Gialla which ages on the lees for about 42 months and we chose a Classic Method also because we didn’t want to do something banal: it was presented for the first time in 2011 in Rome with the two presidents of the Republic (Napolitano was there at the time) but President Mattarella and Pahor were also honored with a magnum”.
The wine carries with it a naturally evocative name like Sinefinis and depending on the year, from 10 to 25 thousand bottles are produced. It is a wine of great freshness and elegance with the typical aromas of the grape variety: to be drunk immediately as an aperitif or with fish-based dishes. “Or”, as Robert Princic likes to remind us, “to be left to rest in the cellar for a long time”.
