Latest details a Lipari for the setting up of the Multisensory workshop of the Luigi Bernabò Brea Archaeological Museum which will be inaugurated on Saturday 3 May And it is dedicated to blind and deaf: 35 tactile finds made by the digitization of pieces from the museum collection accompanied by signs in Braille, apps and videos in LIS (Italian language of signs) is coming). A project of the Archaeological Park of the Aeolian Islands of the Sicilian Region, an institution directed by Rosario Vilardo, and financed by the PNRR which will be introduced on Friday 2 May by a conference of studies entitled “From the Museum to the theater: a project of widespread and inclusive culture” with the contribution of scholars and researchers of numerous Italian and foreign universities.
At the opening of the works the interventions of Francesco Paolo Scarpinato (Councilor of Cultural Heritage and Sicilian identity); by Mario La Rocca (General Manager of the Department of Cultural Heritage and Sicilian identity); of the mayor of Lipari, Riccardo Gullo, and the director of the park.
Finally, on Saturday evening, at the end of the event, the evocative Teatro di Pietra della Rocca di Lipari – built in 1978 on the model of the Greek ones with the eolian sea in the background – will host the tragedy of Aeschylus “Prometheus chained”, directed by Christian Poggioni. A show in the wake of the research and experimentation theater because, as in antiquity, the actors on the scene will wear theatrical masks reproduced and enlarged human measure on the basis of the digital reliefs made for the tactile finds intended for the blind. A project, the latter, carried out with the PNRR funds of the Eolie Park and Prin funds (research projects of significant national interest) assigned to the Catholic University of Milan, and produced by the theater company of the “Kerkís. Teatro Ancient on stage” association. Among the news of the museum, two golf car that will soon be available to visitors to reduced mobility directed to the museum, the book shop and the cafeteria.
The “From Museum al Teatro” project was drawn up by the Archaeological Park of the Aeolian Islands of the Sicilian Region, an institution directed by the architect Rosario Vilardo, financed by the PNRR with about 500 thousand euros and developed in collaboration with the Catholic University of Milan; The Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria and the Naos Lab company (company operating between Salerno, Catanzaro and Rome) which has edited all digital processing. The scientific coordination is by Maria Clara Martinelli Archaeologist of the Aeolian park, Francesca Fatto, professor of architecture design (UniC) and Elisabetta Matelli, professor of History of the Greek Theater (Unicott).
The program
Friday 2 May
Study conference
Hosted in the former Santa Caterina Church, the conference begins at 9 am. After institutional greetings we continue with the interventions of scholars from the universities of Milan, Turin, Bari, Urbino, Pella (Greece). To introduce the contributions of Maria Clara Martinelli, archaeologist of the Elie Park and author of the project; So Elisabetta Matelli (Unicott Milano) and Luigi Todisco (University of Bari). Continue with Naum Elpiniki (archaeologist); Christmas Spineto (University of Turin); Roberto Danese (University of Urbino); Francesca Fatto, Domenico Mediati and Francesco Stilo (University of Reggio Calabria); Andrea Marraffa (Naoslab, the private company that worked on digital supports); Auretta Sterrantino (Unicott Milano). In the afternoon you can visit the display of the stage costumes for the Prometheus who made his debut on the evening of Saturday 3 May and the masks that will be worn by the actors: faithful reproductions, enlarged human measure with the digital reading of the miniatures exhibited in the museum. Matelli and Stefania Parisini O’Brien interventions, costume designer of the “Prometheus” tragedy who debuts on Saturday 3 May.
Saturday 3 May
Inauguration multisensory laboratory
The next day in the morning inauguration of the multisensory laboratory of the Luigi Bernabò Brea Museum: a space dedicated to the welcome and story of the museum, its history, its collection and the “stories” it holds. An introduction that, thanks to the digitization interventions of the finds and the realization of multimedia supports, will also be accessible to those who have the disability of vision and hearing. Lidia La Rocca and Roberta Nisticò (Naos Lab) will be the guide together with a team of the University of Reggio Calabria: Paola Raffa, Sonia Mollica and Lorella Pizzonia.
Theater show
Saturday evening, at 9 pm, the expected debut of the “Prometheus chained” of Aeschylus, directed by Christian Poggioni and the unprecedented use on the scene of the masks made by the miniatures of the finds exhibited in the museum. In the cast, with Poggioni in the eponymous role, I am Lorenzo Volpi Lutheri (potenti, Oceano, Ermes); Margherita Rigamondi (violence, I); Ermelina Cakalli (Hephaestus, Capocoro) and in the role of the oceanines: Arianna Sangiuliano, Francesca Ferrari, Francesca Redaelli, Benedetta Drago and Annachiara Formica. Costumes: Stefania Parisini; Masks: Andrea Cavarra for reconstruction, Francesco Stilo for digital surveys and modeling; Scenography: Dino Serra.
Archeology: the news of the Lipari Museum for the blind and deaf
The heart of the PNRR project of the Aeolian archaeological park is the multisensory laboratory set up on the ground floor of the first building of the museum complex of the Castle of Lipari. Here visitors are welcomed in an exhibition space with 35 tactile reproductions made in Pla (polylactic acid, material used in 3D printing). Including: 26 masks of the comedy and tragedy obtained from the miniatures exhibited in the museum and coming from the funeral equipment found in the Necropolis of Contrada Diana since the middle of the last century and the subject of numerous excavation campaigns coordinated by the great archaeologists Luigi Bernabò Brea and by Madeleine Cavalier; Six statuettes, two vases of prehistoric cultures and a red figure black penthouse crater. All these prototypes, faithfully made thanks to the reliefs with laser scanner, are completed by trilingual captions: Italian, English and Braille. The 3 Totem route complete with the map of the buildings of the castle, the accessibility of the individual floors and the chronological map of the excavations that began on 20 October 1950. Also here in Italian, English, LIS and with a spear text for the blind; three videos with thematic storytelling; Finally, a QR code to download the app that accompanies visitors also with a video with the audiovisual description of the finds and contained in LIS. An area has been intended for the bookshop and the cafeteria which will be managed to third parties while among the news for the “special visitors” with reduced mobility elevators and stairlifts have been renewed according to the most recent regulations, platforms to facilitate access to the plans; Signs and maps in Braille in the outdoor area and two electric golfs to reach the museum.
The collection: History of the masks of the Archaeological Museum of Lipari
The theatrical terracotta were the subject of an important study by Luigi Bernabò Brea (between 1981 and 2001), still considered to be of fundamental scientific relevance. The scholar personally took care of the choice of the finds and their location in the windows of the Lipari Museum entitled to him by creating a scenographic path enriched also by miniatures of theatrical stages.
The collection consists of numerous specimens of statuettes and masks attributable to the theatrical genres in use at the time: tragedy, satirical drama, comedy. The terracotta come, mostly, from the funerary accompanies of the Tombs of Contrada Diana and from the votive votes located in the area of the necropolis. These are miniature reproductions of the masks that the actors carried on the face during the acting both to amplify the tone of the voice, and to interpret the different roles assigned to them, including female ones. Next to the masks include statuettes of dance and dancers, comic actors, jugglers and satirians and sileni, faithful and cheerful companions of Dionysus (texts Maria Clara Martinelli, archaeologist).
Info https://parchercheological.regione.sicilia.it/isole-eolie/biglietti/museo-luigi-bernabo-brea-lipari/