To study in depth the history of a population and its territory is always a difficult task, especially when the landscape is the witness to the pluri-millennial past. It is also more complex trying to describe the story of a population using different sources, not only the documentary ones but also the historical and iconographic. Among the historical and iconographic material, used in this research which discusses about the historical landscape of Molise, the Musa collection, in great part unpublished, has proved to be invaluable. The heterogeneity of the material found, has allowed an innovative approach to the study of the territory and landscape: enriching, on one hand, the knowledge of history and cultural heritage of Molise, and on the other, has allowed me to go beyond the single viewing of the work of art contextualizing it and using it in order to contribute to an "identity" of the Molise landscape. Through a multidisciplinary approach, a recognition of the historical landscape was defined through a collection of maps produced over time, in order to determine the scope of the study, and then it was integrated with the iconographic documentation, so that it was possible to describe, not only the particular painting experience of the artist, but also the transformation of the Molise territory and of its communities. The central theme of this research is the passion with which Musa depicts the beauty and variety of Molise landscapes, the slow pace of life of its countryside and the tranquility of its villages, but also the festivals, the religious processions and other rituals belonging to the popular culture of Molise. More so with his photos, than with his paintings, but also through the woodcuts, drawings and postcards, Musa takes us on a personal journey, a veristic one, in the “so rural” Molise of the Twenties and Thirties, through villages and landscapes, traditions and characters, monuments and historical places, which no longer exist, at least as they were at that time. The characteristics of the settlements, the small villages perched along the top of the ridges and the fields of grain are a backdrop for the ruins of ancient civilizations and add through his snapshots, his light watercolour touches and his paintings, new information for our reconstruction. A survey of the landscape of Molise, traced through the historical tale, driven by an attentive and critical look of Musa, allows to describe the territory through a new and original sensibility, to which is added a scientific approach with extraordinary artistic skills, mixed in a very original vision, so much so that it gives modern interpretations of this territory. From the collection, deposited in 2014 at the “Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio del Molise”, a corpus of 318 works of art, dedicated exclusively to the Molise landscape, have been extrapolated, ordered and organized in a database, using a filing procedure created specifically for the collection. This research hopes to represent a proposal for the historical and cultural valuation of a territory, as yet, little known in an inclusive perspective that, starting from the works of Musa, enhances the visual aspect through an immersive journey that highlights its peculiarity, in order to promote the knowledge and the recognition of an identity.
Approfondire la storia di un popolo e di un territorio è sempre un’operazione complicata, soprattutto quando il paesaggio racchiude le testimonianza di un passato plurimillenario, come quello molisano. Altresì, tentare di raccontare le vicende di un popolo attraverso le più diverse fonti, che negli ultimi anni hanno offerto allo studio una grande quantità di materiale documentario, contribuisce a rendere più interessante e stimolante la ricerca. E tra le fonti storico-iconografiche, la lettura della Collezione Musa, oggetto della presente ricerca, in gran parte inedita, nella eterogeneità del materiale in essa contenuto, ha consentito di approcciarmi allo studio territoriale e paesistico con una duplice finalità: da un lato quello di potenziare ed arricchire la conoscenza storica e del patrimonio culturale molisano e dall’altro oltrepassare la visione della sola opera d’arte per ricercare all’interno di essa la manifestazione di una identità culturale. Seguendo un approccio multidisciplinare, si è partiti dunque da una ricognizione del paesaggio storico attraverso una raccolta della cartografia prodotta nel tempo al fine di definire l’ambito del nostro studio, per poi integrarla con la documentazione iconografica, che ha consentito di raccontare, non solo la particolare esperienza pittorica del nostro artista, ma anche la trasformazione del territorio molisano e delle sue comunità. Filo conduttore di questa preziosa documentazione è rappresentato dalla passione dell’artista nel documentare la bellezza e la varietà dei paesaggi molisani, i ritmi lenti della vita delle sue campagne e la tranquillità dei suoi borghi, ma anche le feste, le processioni religiose e gli altri riti appartenenti alla cultura popolare molisana. Con le sue foto, prima ancora che con i suoi dipinti, ma anche attraverso le xilografie, i disegni e le cartoline, il Musa ci accompagna in un personale viaggio, molto veristico, nel Molise “ruralissimo” degli anni Venti e Trenta, attraverso paesi e paesaggi, tradizioni e personaggi, monumenti e scorci storici, oggi non più esistenti, almeno nelle forme di allora. I caratteri degli insediamenti, i piccoli borghi arroccati in cima ai crinali, le distese di cereali fanno da cornice alle rovine di antiche civiltà e aggiungono di scatto in scatto, di acquerello in acquerello, di dipinto in dipinto, nuove informazioni alla nostra ricostruzione. Una ricognizione del paesaggio molisano ripercorsa attraverso il racconto storico guidato dallo sguardo attento e critico del Musa consente di descrivere il territorio attraverso una nuova ed originale sensibilità, alla quale si unisce un approccio scientifico con straordinarie competenze artistiche, amalgamate in una visione del tutto originale, tale da rendere moderne interpretazioni di questo territorio. Dalla collezione, depositata nel 2014 presso l’attuale Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio del Molise, è stato estrapolato un corpus di 318 opere dedicate esclusivamente al paesaggio molisano che sono state ordinate ed organizzate in un programma di database, e catalogate secondo una modalità di schedatura creata ad hoc per la collezione. La ricerca condotta si auspica possa rappresentare una proposta di valorizzazione storico-culturale per un territorio ancora poco noto, in un prospettiva inclusiva che partendo dalle opere del Musa esalti l’aspetto visivo in una viaggio immersivo che ne accentui la specificità favorendo la conoscenza ed il riconoscimento identitario.
Studio storico del paesaggio molisano: la collezione di Romeo Musa tra arte, territorio e identità
CICOIRA, MARIANNA
2017-07-12
Abstract
To study in depth the history of a population and its territory is always a difficult task, especially when the landscape is the witness to the pluri-millennial past. It is also more complex trying to describe the story of a population using different sources, not only the documentary ones but also the historical and iconographic. Among the historical and iconographic material, used in this research which discusses about the historical landscape of Molise, the Musa collection, in great part unpublished, has proved to be invaluable. The heterogeneity of the material found, has allowed an innovative approach to the study of the territory and landscape: enriching, on one hand, the knowledge of history and cultural heritage of Molise, and on the other, has allowed me to go beyond the single viewing of the work of art contextualizing it and using it in order to contribute to an "identity" of the Molise landscape. Through a multidisciplinary approach, a recognition of the historical landscape was defined through a collection of maps produced over time, in order to determine the scope of the study, and then it was integrated with the iconographic documentation, so that it was possible to describe, not only the particular painting experience of the artist, but also the transformation of the Molise territory and of its communities. The central theme of this research is the passion with which Musa depicts the beauty and variety of Molise landscapes, the slow pace of life of its countryside and the tranquility of its villages, but also the festivals, the religious processions and other rituals belonging to the popular culture of Molise. More so with his photos, than with his paintings, but also through the woodcuts, drawings and postcards, Musa takes us on a personal journey, a veristic one, in the “so rural” Molise of the Twenties and Thirties, through villages and landscapes, traditions and characters, monuments and historical places, which no longer exist, at least as they were at that time. The characteristics of the settlements, the small villages perched along the top of the ridges and the fields of grain are a backdrop for the ruins of ancient civilizations and add through his snapshots, his light watercolour touches and his paintings, new information for our reconstruction. A survey of the landscape of Molise, traced through the historical tale, driven by an attentive and critical look of Musa, allows to describe the territory through a new and original sensibility, to which is added a scientific approach with extraordinary artistic skills, mixed in a very original vision, so much so that it gives modern interpretations of this territory. From the collection, deposited in 2014 at the “Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio del Molise”, a corpus of 318 works of art, dedicated exclusively to the Molise landscape, have been extrapolated, ordered and organized in a database, using a filing procedure created specifically for the collection. This research hopes to represent a proposal for the historical and cultural valuation of a territory, as yet, little known in an inclusive perspective that, starting from the works of Musa, enhances the visual aspect through an immersive journey that highlights its peculiarity, in order to promote the knowledge and the recognition of an identity.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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