Introduction: WOAC Art Competition 2023 Opening Ceremony will start at October 5 at Zappeion in Athens, Greece. We will publish a series of artist interview, and today is the interview with Mr. Francisco Córdoba, the Founding President of the Italian Utopian Culture Association.

“Energy can be translated as love. Energy can also be translated as feelings.”

-- Francisco Córdoba

The universal beauty loaded on arts connects and unites the world together. WOAC Art Competition 2023 Opening Ceremony held on October 5, 2023 at Zappeion, in Athens, Greece will gather artists and art enthusiasts from all around the world to celebrate this event and communicate with arts. Before the Opening Ceremony, we visited artists from every aspect all over the world, and we will publish a series of interview reports with them, focusing on the theme of WOAC Art Competition 2023 “environment, climate and energy.” We will invite them share their worldwide artistic viewpoints, aiming to use arts connect the world and light up the world with art.

Mr. Francisco Córdoba, the Founding President of the Italian Utopian Culture Association

This interview is about Mr. Francisco Córdoba, the Founding President of the Italian Utopian Culture Association. The association he established aims to promote art and culture communication and exchange. Since 1994, it helped artists organize many personal exhibitions and collaborative exhibitions. At the same time, the Association attributes to integrate voice and words, image and music, and poets and multi-media, including present artworks like poets, paintings and visual work on stages or televisions. When it comes to the value of Utopia Association, Mr. Francisco said: “it is the essence of humanity to be general generous and to give for free, to give your intellectual ideas, your goals that you reach.”

Scene of Utopian Cultural Association Activity

Meanwhile, Francisco is an artist, poet and novelist. He has participated in many events, such as 2001 Einstein Observatory: Collective Activity of Art and Astronomy, 2002 “Artist's Diary” at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Villa Borghese, Rome, Commemoration of the 550th Anniversary of Leonardo's Birth, and Frederik 2. Heritage Interpretation Project at 2011 Venice Biennale. In 2013, he exhibited his sole-made sculptor named Spazio Tempo Diversità at Paestum, the World Heritage granted by UNESCO, which is the first time in history that ancient Greek temple held a modern art exhibition.

Rachel Qin, WOAC Executive President and Francisco Córdoba, Founding President of the Italian Utopian Culture Association

In the spring of 2023, Executive President of WOAC Rachel Qin and President of WOAC Advisory Committee Michele Genovese visited the art studio of Francisco Córdoba and participated relevant activities of Utopian Cultural Association. They officially invited Mr. Francisco to attend WOAC Art Competition 2023 Opening Ceremony in Athens, Greece. When it comes to “environment, climate and energy,” the theme of WOAC Art Competition 2023, Francisco believes that this theme is also what we are facing in our life, and we must consider it and exchange our thoughts, gaining inspirations to create and grow. He also said: “Energy can be translated as love. Energy can also be translated as feelings.”