« Lucania : an area in which landscape, villages and places of culture dialogue in a syncretic and original way ». This is how the exhibition is presented « Inside the landscape. Art of the 900th century in internal Basilicata » edited by Antonello Tolve. The Region that had Matera European Capital of Culture in 2019 it arrives in Florence at the VI Edition: Roots and Paths, on the occasion of the Lucanian Week. a stage of theFlorentine Summer 2022, which will be inaugurated on 11 September at Palazzo Medici Ricciardi. The smallest and most remote Region, according to the usual parameters of development, Florence presents 116 works by national and international artists, 18 books by Arco Edizioni d'Arte – Edizioni Vanni Scheiwiller – Edizioni della Cometa, published between 1974 and 1998. If the Turinese Charles Levi, confined by fascism between Grassano and Aliano, after the war it was the symbol of the cultural tragedy of the twenty years, all the other intellectuals who went to the villages and sheep tracks of Lucania they have been able to represent the flavors and atmospheres of a bitter but valuable territory.
In the works the values of those who were not born in Basilicata
He will also be present in Florence until 30 September the System of Museums and Cultural Heritage of Lucania for the museums of Aliano, Castronuovo Sant'Andrea, Moliterno and Montemurro. Four associated countries in a quadrangulation that crosses two large national parks (the Pollino National Park and the Lucano Val D'Agri Lagonegrese Apennine Park). The civil and ecological dimension of Basilicata in the artists' commitment thus becomes a creative itinerary "between works, figures, names of the XNUMXth century in Basilicata and many other actors who have lived, traveled and worked in Basilicata with passion and reason."
The review has four areas, each linked to the museums of a town
The art, the culture, the landscape and the strength of the natural or acquired roots bear the names of Rocco Scotellaro, Luigi Guerricchio, Roberto Linzalone, Assadour, Alfredo Panzini, Edo Janich, Cesare Brandi, Nino Ricci, Mario Trufelli, José Ortega, Mario La Cava, Mauro Masi, Albino Pierro, Mino Maccari, Leonardo Sinisgalli, Franca Ghitti, Alfonso Gatto , Libero De Libero, Giulio Turcato, Luigi Bartolini, Pietr Herel, Giuseppe Ungaretti , Arnoldo Ciarrocchi, Gabriella Drudi, Jorg Neitzert, Benedetto Croce , Roberto Almagno, Nicola Chiaromonte , Aldo Galli, Antonio Baldini, Lorenzo Guerrini, Domenico Rea, Ernesto Porcari. Alongside non-Lucanis, intellectuals inspired by places and people. An interactive installation dedicated to the parks and natural and environmental resources of Basilicata joins this in Palazzo Medici Ricciardi. For Antonio Nicoletti director of APT Basilicata “Matera and its trajectory in XNUMXth-century Italian culture represent only the best-known part of the relationship between Basilicata and contemporary art. Proposing this story, in many ways unpublished, to the public of Florence is an invitation to discover places where art and landscape come together in surprising harmony”. A land often ignored.
