Messina celebrates 100 years of Palazzo Zanca with events and conferences
From 14 to 19 December, a series of initiatives at Palazzo Zanca to remember the history and architecture symbol of the rebirth of Messina after the 1908 earthquake.
Messina celebrates 100 years of Palazzo Zanca with events and conferences.
On the occasion of the centenary of Palazzo Zanca, seat of the Municipality of Messina, the initiatives promoted by the municipal administration and sponsored by the professional orders of engineers and architects of Messina to celebrate the anniversary of the municipal building designed by the architect Antonio Zanca were illustrated yesterday, Wednesday 11 December. The meeting, attended by the mayor Federico Basile, was attended by the councilor for Culture Enzo Caruso and the working group that collaborated on the initiative formed by the architects Carmelo Celona, Emanuela Panarello and Luciano Giannone.
"The events promoted to celebrate the anniversary of our Town Hall are included - he highlighted Mayor Basile - as part of the initiative 'Vieni a Palazzo', but in this case some important moments of study were organised, by expert speakers, with the aim of spreading knowledge among the citizens of the historical-cultural profile of Palazzo Zanca, also in terms of the curiosities and anecdotes that distinguish it".
"Celebrate this civic building, which represents the 'citizens' home', – he continued Councilor Caruso - It is an event that we wanted to organize through a program of initiatives that will be held on December 17 and 19, in which the order of architects and engineers of Messina collaborated to tell both the architectural and constructive part and the symbolic, cultural and social part of the Palace. We believe that the initiative is an important event, because after the earthquake of 1908, the first stone of the Palace was laid on December 28, 1914. Following the outbreak of the First World War, Messina had a setback in its reconstruction, so the partial inauguration took place on July 26, 1924. Today, 100 years later, we want to remember that December 28 as the achievement of a significant milestone and as an important date of rebirth for the City”. Even for the architect Celona "the celebration of the 100 years of Palazzo Zanca is an anniversary of great interest because it represents the so-called 'residents' home' and also the identity of the people of Messina linked to one of the first architectural assets partially rebuilt after the earthquake of 1908".
The program of initiatives will start on Saturday 14 December, at 19 pm, with the inauguration of a digital exhibition, in the foyer of the Salone delle Bandiere; the exhibition will be open until 6 January every day, with screenings from 9 am to 13 pm and from 15 pm to 18 pm.
On December 17, at 15.30:16.30 p.m., again in the Salone delle Bandiere, the Conference: Architecture, History and Counter-History. The works, moderated by Milena Romeo, will be attended by institutional greetings from the mayor Federico Basile, the councilor for Culture and Tourism Enzo Caruso, the president of the Order of Architects PPC Pino Falzea, the president of the Order of Engineers Santi Trovato and the superintendent of Cultural and Environmental Heritage of Messina Mirella Vinci. The first session will follow at XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. with an introduction by the deputy mayor and councilor for Cultural Heritage and Public Works Salvatore Mondello; and the interventions on “From stone to reinforced concrete, passing through wood: Messina after 1908” by the historian Giuseppe Restifo; “The city palace: archetype and plastic evolution in the historical context of Messina” by the architect Luciano Giannone; and on “Palazzo Zanca: an architecture that becomes a metaphor” the architect Carmelo Celona will report.
The initiatives will continue on December 19th, at 15.30 pm, in the Salone delle Bandiere with the Conference: Art and Life in the Palace, the Proposal”.The program of the second session, introduced and moderated by Milena Romeo, includes speeches by Gioacchino Barbera, art historian, on the theme “The wall decorations by Adolfo Romano and Daniele Schmiedt at Palazzo Zanca and some notes on the 1953 “Antonello da Messina” exhibition; by Katia Giannetto, professor of Art History, on “The Last Supper by Alonzo Rodriguez, a Caravaggesque in Messina”; Giovanna Alessi, professor, expert in Art History will discuss “In search of Barbalongian classicism in the iconography of the 'Embassy to the Virgin'; while the journalist Attilio Borda Bossanna will discuss “Memories and events of the Palace”. The third session will follow with the interventions of the architect Carmelo Celona on “The cement amalgams and the restoration hypothesis of the envelope of Palazzo Zanca”; and of the restorer Rosaria Catania Cucchiara will discuss “Methodology and practice in the restoration of artificial stones” who will also take care of the “Laboratory on cement amalgam”.
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