With the Public Administration of Spinazzola, we shared the idea of launching a review, to be repeated every year, that would bring architecture and art together, that would address the interpretation of the landscape as a theme, that would see the involvement of critics and photographers as an additional interpretative level, and that would involve the participation of the population as a stimulus and a guarantee of grounding. Calce bianca / Fossa verde / Murgia rossa is therefore an initial experiment, a declaration of intent that could open a new era of revitalisation of this context. For the first time, working with Simone Racheli, with the dialectical support of Didi Bozzini, with the images of Pierangelo Laterza, and thanks to the contribution of the local people, we launched an initial experience that could trigger numerous positive dynamics: awareness of the context, promotion of the area, and progressive recognition of Spinazzola as a place to visit for the qualities of its natural and built landscape, but also for the works that could follow in the years to come. In this context, the first two installations take on a particular programmatic significance, with the bauxite quarry as an identity reference in the landscape, for the evocative values in people’s memories and for the tourism potential of their future urban economy. The choice of where to locate the works fell on two different and complementary places for a single discourse that connects a book and a bookstand at a distance, united by the same material dialectic between grey aluminium and the red-coloured raw material from which it derives. One work was placed indoors in the foyer of the municipal library, as an artistic memorial and reminder of identity for the cultural heritage of the population. The other work then almost naturally sought out the open air on the urban terrace that continues from the parvis of the mother church in the direction of the logical connecting view between the white town and the green valley that measures the distance from Monte Vulture.
Comune di Spinazzola
Spinazzola, 2021
with Simone Racheli
Photography Pierangelo Laterza
