Lingue Di Fuoco
Eugenia Suriani brings to Lingue di Fuoco a lived understanding of Italian wine culture rooted in place, memory, and continuity. Born in Sicily and shaped by years of experience in London and New York, her relationship to wine resists performance or instruction.
For Suriani, wine is a cultural record formed by land, climate, and patience; carried forward through judgment, restraint, and time. It is approached as one approaches language or art: attentively, without spectacle, and with respect for origin.
Her presence ensures that wine remains what it has always been within Italian culture: a companion to conversation, observation, and duration.
Carmelo Blandino’s work is shaped by long attention rather than outcome. His practice unfolds through drawing, painting, teaching, and sustained observation—where form is not imposed, but allowed to arrive through time and restraint.
Italy has long served as a lived reference within his work. Not as an aesthetic ideal, but as a place where making, labor, and daily ritual remain inseparable; where beauty is permitted to be useful, and usefulness to be beautiful. These values inform both his studio practice and the environments he creates for others.
Within Lingue di Fuoco, Blandino assumes responsibility not as a guide or instructor, but as a custodian. He establishes pace, protects silence, and attends to the integrity of the conditions in which experience unfolds allowing meaning to emerge without explanation.
Shared Custodianship
Lingue di Fuoco exists within the space created by these two sensibilities.
Art and wine are not positioned as experiences to be consumed, but as practices that require attentiveness, humility, and discretion. The principals do not seek to persuade or impress. They establish the conditions.
What unfolds from that point depends entirely on the quality of presence brought into the experience.