It will be a real cultural happening that will take place on Friday evening, May 10th, at 9.00 pm,
in Erice Casa Santa, in the Palazzo del Seminario Escovile, in via Cosenza 90.
Twenty years after the first opening of the Contemporary Art Collection of the Diocese of Trapani, new acquisitions and a new exhibition will be offered to all those interested in the new languages of art and the dialogue between the Church and today’s artists. Thanks to this extraordinary recovery, the San Rocco Museum, located in the historic center of Trapani (via Turretta, 12) and already rich in spaces and works of art, becomes EXTRA LARGE, in fact it expands in its Erice location, enriching itself with new environments and new cultural proposals.
Dr. Francesco Buranelli returns to cut the ribbon, twenty years ago General Director of the Vatican City Museums, who, after a five-year mandate as Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Culture led by Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, today holds the prestigious position of President of the Permanent Commission for the Protection of Historic-Artistic Monuments of the Holy See. His wife, the well-known Etruscologist Susanna Le Pera, will be present with him.
The Collection presents a new exhibition itinerary, which starts from man’s existential journey (Homo Viator) and unfolds, through the large rooms on the third floor, in three sections, which explore man’s journey towards himself (Ad semetipsum), towards the cosmos (Ad res creatis), towards others (Ad consuetudinem).
Before seeing the third floor in its new guise, it will also be possible to listen to the voices of three very welcome guests: Rolando Bellini and Bruno Corà, both art historians, critics and curators of international fame; and Valeria Li Vigni, former Director of the “Pepoli Museum” in Trapani, of the “Riso Museum” in Palermo and today President of the Foundation named after her unforgettable husband, Sebastiano Tusa.
They will present the work of a great artist who has been working in Trapani for 10 years, Marco Papa, and will talk about his exhibition-workshop set up on the 4th floor and entitled “Form, Virtù”. With it the artist intends to retrace his years in Trapani, his commitment to the territory, in particular with his association “L’Uomo sulla Terra”, and his new artistic conquests, which lead to his project “Pace Meta Gondola Fisica Redentore” to develop into an international event, “Opera Avvenimento”, which will involve all the nations that touch the Danube and the Black Sea for a message of peace and union between peoples.
The exhibition is set up in a temporary exhibition space which will be dedicated to the great Trapani artist Carla Accardi, protagonist of the second half of the twentieth century in Italy with the Forma Movement.
Two other rooms on the 4th floor will be dedicated: one, for meetings and conferences, to Professor Filippo Burgarella, professor of Byzantine history at the University of Calabrie; the other, for the artistic workshops, to Maria Pia Adamo, teacher of the Art School of Trapani and deputy director of the San Rocco Museum; both passed away prematurely.
The evening will end with a performative act by Marco Papa, who will convene eight people around a table-work and on symbolic seating-works built by him: himself, the director of the San Rocco Museum Don Liborio Palmeri, Bruno Corà , Rolando Bellini, Valeria Li Vigni, the mayor of Erice Daniela Toscano, Francesco Buranelli and a little girl, Marta Mangiarotti, who has always attended the Museum’s activities. The adults will express to Marta their dream of improving, through art, the condition of our society and will listen to the desire that is in the little girl’s heart so that all humanity can live a better future. A wish that will be written on a window by Marta and countersigned by the adults to be left as a warning inside the Museum.
«In this way – states the director of the “San Rocco” Museum Don Liborio Palmeri – Marco Papa wants to affirm that life, art and society cannot be separated. The opening of these new spaces of the Seminar building, which make those of the San Rocco Museum truly EXTRALARGE, will allow this interaction to be developed and to develop increasingly broader and more engaging cultural projects, especially for young people.”
The collection can be visited during the opening hours of the Diocesan Library by calling 0923571239 or by booking via the numbers 3792705571 (Whatsapp only) or 3491518995
