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Il Comune di Campione d’Italia si trova all’ombra di un
enorme edificio, quello del Casinò. Il primo occupa una piccola area che
anticamente era il monastero ove risiedevano i monaci o confratelli che
accudivano all’Hospitale di S. Zenone, a chiesa dove è ospitata questa
rassegna. La genesi di questa esposizione che si presenta in forme semplici
ed appare soltanto come una delle numerose mostre di arte tendente al
tema della arte sacra contemporanea, ha radici piuttosto profonde, radicate
in un suolo fertile di artisti. Sono questi gli artisti di Campione, i
Campionesi che insieme agli Antelami (della valle Intelvi), i Ticinesi
ed i Valsoldesi (della Valsolda) formano un unico gruppo. Sono l’esempio
della solidarietà, della corporazione, della sinergia tra le competenze,
della dipendenza e dell’ordine perchè rispondenti tutti in perfetta sincronia
di tempi e ruoli ad una unica mente-guida che faceva capo alla chiesa
e conosceva la forza aggregante di uomini fidati. Tutti guidati da una
sola forza, del dare il meglio di sè nell’eseguire artisticamente protesi
verso l’unico fine della comunicazione e delle congiunzione all’idea che
dal Creatore si diparte e al Creatore giunge. Da questa constatazione
nasce il 3° CONVEGNO DELLE FAMIGLIE dei territori interessati e la rassegna
CAMPIONESI e ANTELAMI DEL III MILLENNIO, ARTISTI EDIFICATORI DI PACE.
Si chiede agli artisti in questi tempi di farsi missionari e si sente
fortemente la volontà della Chiesa di appoggiare le iniziative che possono
aprire alla conoscenza della via che porta a Cristo. Questa rassegna ci
regala la opportunità di collocare opere per la pace in un ambiente costruito
come luogo di raccoglimento e preghiera e di culto. Altre porgono motivi
di riflessione per non giungere a disattese speranze. Il Papa Giovanni
Paolo II ci indica: “la loro tipologia è varia: pittura, scultura, architettura,
mosaico, musica, opere letteratie, teatrali e cinematografiche”. In queste
varie forme artistiche si esprime la forza creativa del genio umano che,
mediante raffigurazioni simboliche, si fa interprete di un messaggio che
trascende la realtà. Se animate da afflato spirituale, tali opere possono
aiutare l’anima nella ricerca delle cose divine e giungere anche a costruire
pagine interessanti di catechesi e di ascesi. The Town Hall of Campione d’Italia is in the shadow of
a huge building, the Casino. The former stands on a small area where in
the past there was the monastery that hosted the monks or brothers who
ran the Hospitale of S. Zenone, the church where this exhibition is staged.
The genesis of this exposition - a simple event appearing only as one
of many art exhibitions dedicated to the topic of contemporary holy art
- has deep roots, digging into a fertile land of artists. They are the
artists from Campione, called Campionesi, who,together with the Antelami
(from the Intelvi valley), the Ticinesi (from Ticino) and the Valsoldesi
(from the Valsolda valley) make up a single group. They are a model of
solidarity, of corporation, of synergetic skills, of dependence and order,
as they all respond - with a perfect synchronicity of time and roles -
to a single guiding mind, which reported to the Church and knew the joint
power of trusted men. All guided by the same force, i.e. the will to give
their best in their artistic activity, striving for the only goal of communication
and reaching the idea that starts from the Creator and returns back to
the Creator. This is the vision behind the exhibition CAMPIONESI E ANTELAMI
DEL III MILLENNIO, ARTISTI EDIFICATORI DI PACE (Campionesi and Antelami
in the 3rd millennium,artists and builders of peace). In these times,
artists are required to be missionaries and the Church is willing to support
initiatives that might show the way to Christ. This exhibition offers
an opportunity to install works for peace in a place conceived for prayer
and worshipping. Other works urge to think to avoid hopes that cannot
be satisfied. The Intelvi Museum of Stucco and scagliola wish to thank
the national presidency of Ucai. Pope John Paul II says: “There are different
expressions: painting, sculpture, architecture, mosaic, music, literature,
theater and cinema”. These different arts express the creative force of
human ingenuity, which,through symbolic representations, interprets a
message that transcends reality. If animated by spiritual inspiration,
these works can help the soul in the search of divine things and also
lead to the construction of great pages of catechesis and asceticism. Attività dei Campionesi The definition includes the “lapidici ” (tablature artists),
the sculptors and, as we will see, also the architects which in documents
and sources are associated to the location of Campione as well as Arogno,
Bissone and other villages of the Como highlands, and between Lombardy
and the Ticino region. Some groups spread over Italy and into the heart
of Europe, according to documents from the mid 12th century. At that time,
the figure of Anselmo da Campione emerged. The building sites in Lombardy
and in southern France were very lively and fertile. The next date concerns
the four Apostles of the Coira cathedral (1178). The second half of the
century is also the period of the ark under the major altar of the Parma
Cathedral and the stories of San Lorenzo in the Dome of Basle. To the
same period belong the Saints Peter and Paul in the San Giuseppe church
in Bologna and the so-called Lecturer of the Mantova Museum can be dated
to the end of the 12th century. This is also the period of the beautiful
Apostles of the Milan Cathedral. Anselmo’s son, Ottavio, is a transition
figure between the 12th and 13th century, still active in Modena, Bologna
and Ferrara. Only in the 13th century did the Campionesi start to spread
to Tuscany, with Guido da Como and brother Lanfranco, working towards
the mid of the century in Pisa, in the Baptistery and then in Pistoia
in the church of San Bartolomeo in Pantano. Another Campionese branch
extended its activity to the north-eastern area of Italy. It was the family
of Adamo d’Arogno who, in the early 13th century, built he Cathedral of
Trento together with his relatives, working almost until the 14th century.
Activity in the Italian-Austrian region is witnessed by interventions
in Bolzano (dome portal) and Salzburg (bezel of the San Francesco church).
At the end of the 13th century, when Ottone Visconti’s Ark in the Milan
Cathedral is dated, the names of Campionesi artists are found in minor
towns and locations in Lombardy. At the dawn of the 14th century, the
masters can be recognized in the Grave of Bernardino Maggi in the old
cathedral of Brescia, and the ark of Cardinal Longhi in Santa Maria Maggiore
in Bergamo. The work is attributed to Ugo da Campione. In this period,
as to Lombardy, it is mainly referred to the activity of Giovanni di Balduccio
da Pisa, who certainly had a strong influence on the sculptors around
him. Bonino began his career under Giovanni da Campione who was the site
chief in the areas between Bergamo and Brescia. Two works are certainly
his creations, as witnessed by inscriptions: they are the sarcophagus
of Folchino degli Schizzi in the Dome of Cremona in 1357, and in Verona
the sepulcher of Cansignorio, who died in 1375. We also remind his set
of relief works from the Certosa di Pavia, where the Campionese activity
was very important also for architecture. During the 14th century, the
Campionesi masters are still recognizable in several Lombard works, such
as the doors of the Viboldone abbey, the portal of SS. Nazaro e Celso
in Bellano made by Giovanni in 1384, and Monza where Matteo da Campione
worked; and finally, Giacomo who made the bezel in the Milan Cathedral,
and is probably the latest figure of the Campionesi dynasty.
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