Over 120 initiatives have been
planned for National Landscape Day on March 14 across Italy.
The day is meant to raise awareness among citizens on issues
linked to protection of the landscape.
There will be an exhibition entitled 'Paesaggi Condivisi'
('Shared Landscapes') in L'Aquila and 'L'Arte Racconta il
Paesaggio' in the English Garden of Reggia di Caserta.
Michelangelo Pistoletto will be the highlight in Pompeii,
with a new version of 'Terzo Paradiso' ('Third Paradise') made
out of fragments of Roman amphorae and ceramics bombed in 1943
and an exploration of depiction techniques of antiquity at the
Museo Nazionale Romano. And environmental art will be in Siena,
while special exhibition routes have been set up at the Uffizi
Galleries, the Brera, the Opificio delle Pietre Dure and at the
National Museum of Ravenna.
The day will focus on "a sector that in Italy has not over
time had the visibility that it should", said Culture Minister
Dario Franceschini, despite the country being "the only one in
the world that with Article 9 has included landscape protection
even in the constitution. The beauty is also often the result of
human work, such as in the case of the Val d'Orcia".
Undersecretary Ilaria Borletti Buitoni said that the focus
would be on "the landscape that is no longer just green hills,
but the context in which a community lives, which can also be an
urban one or one that requires rehabilitation. The attention
today should be even greater so that attacks on them -
uncontrolled and rather irremediable - no longer happen. The day
will show this as well as the unifying thread of actions that
carefully protect and are at the service of all, since our
landscape is the heritage of Italian citizens and it can only be
protected through a network of public and private bodies, local
agencies, associations and individuals."
Culture ministry secretary general Antonia Pasqua Recchia
noted that landscapes that have experienced degradation "are
often prone to criminal activities".
There will be initiatives at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte
Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome, the Palazzi Reali in Genoa and
Naples, the Cenacolo Vinciano in Milan, the Palazzo Rota in
Pisaroni in Piacenza, the Terme di Diocleziano and Ostia Antica
in the capital, the Villa della Regina in Turin and Palazzo
Ducale in Venica.
Pompeii Special Superintendent Massimo Osanna said that "now
that the internal problems at the site have been resolved, we
need to think about the rehabilitation of the context, which was
ravaged by the post WWII period and that was one of the most
beautiful of the ancient world, celebrated in all the Grand
Tours of the 1700s."
The superintendencies will also open their doors for the
occasion, which "are not only places where permits are issued
and restrictions are laid down", Franceschini said, "in order to
highlight their "extraordinary work in protection activities".
The day will also be celebrated through the awarding of the
Premio Paesaggio Italiano (Italian Landscape Prize) and the
signing of the Landscape Plan with Piedmont regional president
Sergio Chiamparino. For more info:
www.beniculturali.it/giornatadelpaesaggio.
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