L’Apt Basilicata will be present at the Turin Book Fair to present 6 important new publications aimed at promoting Lucanian authors and the extraordinary relationship between landscape, culture and art.
Let’s start Friday, May 10, at 3 pm, Hall 1 – Comics Room with the presentation of “The only cure” by Giuseppe Palumbo (Oblomov editions) con Giuseppe Palumbo and Andrea Plazzi. In this volume the Great History with its epochal changes is the backdrop to the surprising human story of Ludovico Nicola Di Juraa Lucanian doctor who was a protagonist and witness to the transformation of China from a thousand-year-old Empire to a Republic.
Full day, Saturday 11 May, at the stand of the Basilicata Region. It starts at 11.30 with the absolute preview presentation of the three unpublished volumes (publisher Quodlibet) on Rocco Scotellaro wanted by the Basilicata Region as part of the celebrations for the 100th anniversary of the birth of the mayor Poeta of Tricarico.
The first volume is “Notebooks 1942 – 1953” edited by Franco Vitelli and Giulia Dell’Aquila. The unpublished materials here carry the rhythm of Rocco Scotellaro’s intelligent industriousness, of his very fervent political, intellectual and literary life, which took place amidst important facts and friendships despite its disconcerting brevity.
THEthe second And “The fires of San Pancrazio”, edited and with a critical-philological essay by Sebastiano Martelli and with a preface by Goffredo Fofi. Scotellaro bets on the possibility of representing a piece of the world of southern peasant civilization of the 1930s and 1940s, opting for the forms of popular and melody cinema which was successfully meeting the waiting horizon of the new mass audience.
The third “Rocco Scotellaro. A peasant intellectual writer beyond modernity” contains the proceedings of the international study conference curated by Giulia Dell’Aquila.
In order to go beyond the “scenography of the ephemeral”, these Acts fully respond to the increasingly felt need to look at Scotellaro in his complexity, in the interconnection of knowledge and in the concrete overcoming of a dual vision.
After the institutional greetings from the President of the Regional Council of Basilicata, Carmine Cicala, and the general director of Apt Basilicata, the following will speak: Laura Nay, University of Turin, Goffredo Fofi, film critic, Emiliano Morreale, La Sapienza University of Rome, Laura Clerici, University State of Milan.
In the afternoon, at 3.30pmagain at the stand of the Basilicata Region, presents itself “Basilicata. Curiosities of art crossing the Lucanian villages” by Gabriele Scarcia. Edition created and produced by Apt Basilicata.
This booklet for tourist information, but no less careful in its contents, essentially traces “routes” through Lucania, routes that will claim to align with everyone’s expectations, training and concept of visual enjoyment, in front of the universal art. Basilicata will show itself without veils and frills, as if in a shop window, ready to exhibit, through captivating images, its most hidden artistic treasure, that is, that kept in churches, diocesan museums, municipal buildings and convent cloisters.
Speakers include the director of Apt Basilicata, Antonio Nicoletti, and the author, Gabriele Scarcia. Moderated by Serafino Paternoster, journalist.
Saturday will end with another important scheduled appointment at 6pm, in Pavilion 4 – Bronze Room with a meeting on the topic From Alterlinus to Numbers with Igort, Andrea Ferraris, Antonio Nicoletti, general director of Apt Basilicata.
The Basilicata Tourist Board, in line with the various activities planned by the Comics & Games area, promoted the comic book story of the Lucanian doctor Ludovico Nicola Di Gura. In the four episodes published in the four Alterlinus anthologies, the Lucanian cartoonist, Giuseppe Palumbo, tells the story of Di Gura, his travels from Basilicata to China and vice versa, his relationships with the imperial court, his adventures and through them, of the values that Lucanian culture expresses, with a message of dialogue between cultures that is very timely.
It will also be an opportunity to discuss the new ‘Alterlinus’, an anthology founded in 1974 by Oreste Del Buono and now returned with new splendor. A magazine in which comic art is found and in which the story of the doctor Di Gura, originally from Chiaromonte, landed.
