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“Scetammece…ia…iamme ia!” (Wake up…come on!” is a lively Neapolitan expression and is the title of the show is going to be performed May 22nd at the Rasi Theatre in Ravenna (10.15 a.m.):“The Mosaic Didactics on Stage”. It’s about the final manifestation of the 3rd edition of the project “The Body,the Mind,the Spirit…artistic integration for MOSAICS IN MOTION”,Videomosaic and Mosaic Poetics,which was born two years ago for the 50° anniversary of the “State Art Institute of Mosaic Gino Severini” of Ravenna with the collaboration of many local agencies and the town hall. It’s addressed to each level of schools:from kindergarden to the High school and Fine Art and Music School. Through Music,Poetry,Dance,Acting,a multidisciplinary didactic work will be represented through “The Body who Enter into Other Knowledges”:a Living Mosaic in Motion. The performance of Art and Mosaic students will be “The Musaic Link” (“Legame Musaico” Dante’s expression) between schools and the local territory,a real artistic pole,exquisite combination between reality and dream,drawn from Imagining the Imaginary Materializing it and transmuting it in New Reality:from the Mariola Carnival to the Errant Knight,from the Ravenna Monster to the Ravenna Battle,in its 500th anniversary,from the “Caterinette”,cookies,dolly and cock shaped,exclusively product by the bakers of the historical center of Ravenna for Saint Catherine of Alexandria of Egypt (25th of November is even the date chosen by the United Nations General Assembly as the international day against violence on women) to the association Pink Line to support women and children with difficulty). There will be the extraordinary participation of Annagloria a big interpreter of the International and Neapolitan song,the rhythmic gymnastics girls of the sport association Edera Ravenna and the music band Post Ether. “With the Heart” there will be even Cristina Mazzavillani Muti.

Art,in particular Mosaic,represent “le train d’union” or the “Teodora Thread” to promote an integrate didactic,but first of all integrant among the various realities which characterize our school and,as a reflex,nowadays society. I think we should go over the literal meaning of mosaic grammar,over that allegorical and tropological expressed by the mosaic representation so to research the anagocical one. To investigate the deepest meaning soaked into the typical mosaic materiality,that corporeality which connected the “meaning” to the “over meaning”,who allow us to configure the future in an eschatological perspective concerning the “problem solving” of our and others existence.

To each one of us it should be given the opportunity to “Become” that Unique and Unrepeatable “Tesselae” indispensable to the construction of the Social Mosaic.

Each human being has the right and the duty to Grew up identifying his/her own psychophysical and affective potentiality,in a context which stimulate the critical spirit,the responsibility assumption,both towards him/herself and towards the others,so to say each individual should acquire competences to become Mosaic Master of his/her own,deconstructing and reconstructing his/her Interior Mosaic.

Italy,according to the law and pedagogical point of view,and I refer to the update law N°104 of February 5th,1992,is an example of emancipation on the international level in integration an inclusion projects about “people of different abilities”,unique in the European perspective:over 30 years,thanks to a choice of civilization of the Italian Parliament,with the insertion/integration/inclusion of students in difficulties (“disabled/differently skillful”) in the public school,the sensibility and knowledge among students and teachers have increased. A way,the Italian one,which has solicited the educational process,as well as the formative one,contributing to improve the idea of the importance of the sense of belonging of Each One of Us into the social tissue…because “All of Us are necessary and there is the need even of You!”.
The cognitive,the emotional,the bodily,integrated together develop welfare,an ideal condition even for a learning of quality and healthy cooperation. Nowadays “we don’t have much time”,everything crushes till to smash themselves and the others:haven’t we,perhaps,given our contribute to “liquefy” even more our society?
The youths,and the less youths,is increasingly catalyzed out of themselves,sucked by the images,by sounds,by noises,by smells,by tastes…sucked by vacuous hedonism and aestheticism,by egoism,by careerism,by the individual interest only,that too often,annihilates the efforts of those who have dedicate their own life to build up something suitable for becoming a collective commodity…something strong and durable such as an Incorruptible Stones Mosaic!
Drastic loss of individual and collective identity:Where to retrace the essence of once own personality? As teachers,as educators,as parents,as “Human Beings”,as Mosaic Master…which kind of identity do we think to “administer to our young people”,the future of our society?
Where the honest and transparent interaction between Master and Learner?
I recall into my mind the words of the Master Gino Severini so lively even today:
“The mosaic worker can’t rely on the chance or on the automatism. For his/her work everything must be thought and prepared ahead…the tools used…don’t serve him/her to realized the work,but only to provide a material support… they are lapidarius structore they stay to the plastic and poetical opus realized as the exercise at the “bar” fits to dance,or the arpeggios to music. One day perhaps even them (mosaic workers) will dance and will make music;they will become then pictor imaginarius. But we will need before to readmit “the existential world of things”,to identify with it and love it!”

As never as today there is the necessity to readmit the existential world of the multiple realities,diversities,identifying us with them and loving them with honesty of intents and collaborations:for this “wake up…come on!”,come on together over the provincialism,in a very international Spirit. An awakening lo Love,to Simplicity,to Spontaneity,to Respect,to Dialogue,to Justice…Spread Stones,but that,if we pay attention and are able to “look at” we perceive by intuition deeply inside us and into scandalized and disappointed eyes of those who have been offended for their “Diversity”. Which are,after all,the columns that hold up the Excellences of Real Professionalism? There it wants professionalism into the Art of knowing how to live and of that of being able to live together. Don’t we engorge of Professionalism for Professionalism’s sake,of Art for Art’s sake or Mosaic for Mosaic’s sake:each shape,because it isn’t only an inflated balloon,should be the expression of a substance brimful of Love,of Life,the only ones able to transmute the Raw Material into that Beauty which is unique and unrepeatable expression of the Noblest and most Harmonious Soul Aesthetic.

The All Mosaic Adventure (Tutta l’Avventura del MOsaico…TAMO…which refer to the Italian word expression “T’Amo” that means I Love You) in Ravenna,testified by the permanent mosaic exhibition at St. Nicholas,curated by RavennAntica becomes the password to enter into the New Mosaic Adventure.

Each one of us is Culture…cultivate ourselves with care!

Where,if not in Ravenna,as candidate for European Capital of Culture 2019,to relaunch a renewed challenge,in which Art,specifically the “Musaic” (Musaico from an old Latin expression) “New Myth for the Third Millennium”,becomes the instrument of that “Interior Music and Beauty” able to transform every apparent reality into the most natural and simple spontaneity which knows ,from the Art of knowing how to live,how to build up shining Living Mosaic in Motion toward an Original Participation of each one of us!

Silvia Colizzi

Ravenna,May 2012.

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