the tenth day of October wheelbarrows are back in L'Aquila ...
Angela Maria Russo
no parking sign on it says:"to work" from .... to ...... there is neither the beginning and not even end of course!
Monday, October 11, 2010Simo CapecchiYesterday in the red zone to draw I think we were at least 50, most photographers and several companions. It 's the first time that such a large group of artists will gather for a collective report, Trieste, Bologna, Latina, Rome, Lanciano. From Naples we were Caroline Peyron, Ferruccio Orioli, Enrico Rebeggiani my husband and I, in Abruzzo of Chieti. We met Antonio Di Giandomenico, prof. Antonio Gasbarrini and other citizens active in the Assembly Aquila town that others had already met in previous visits. What we have seen and heard is something hard to tell.
Naively, I did not expect to find such open wound, as well as in people in their homes. The red zone includes almost the entire city center and is militarized, with trucks at each passage. Everything is propped. There are very few active sites. The city is awaiting final collapse and not too slowly.
Mentre disegno in piazza Santa Giusta arriva una signora con i genitori anziani e protesta che vuole vedere la sua casa. I vigili del fuoco che ci stanno scortando divisi in tre gruppidi circa venti persone, la fanno entrare e noi le prestiamo i caschetti. Quando tornano il padre è in lacrime. "Ho quattro case e non posso entrare in nessuna. Loro ci entrano invece, eccome: le hanno appena messe in sicurezza, hanno sfondato i tramezzi col piccone per far passare i tiranti, mi hanno fatto a pezzi tutto quello che era rimasto, i mobili..."
A via Sturzo, fuori della zona rossa, la fila of reinforced concrete buildings has reacted almost worse than those in masonry infill walls on the ground floor exploded chasing out all the contents of houses. Fragments found in a pile of sheet music and musical instruments.
Ferruccio Orioli this design is in four parts. Venetian-born architect, has seen several near earthquakes from Friuli, in Belize, Irpinia. "But this earthquake is the first Italian to have no special law providing for the reconstruction. A whole city has been sentenced to death. I can not stand to watch more, I get the watercolor the coffee." We were wrong, everyone. I do not know if it was more the sense of helplessness or anger.
In 1703, Gasbarrini tells us, the city was destroyed by a violent earthquake and an enlightened Marchese della Rocca Marco Garofalo, the "Bertolaso" at the time, forced the people to rebuild homes and assisting them withholding taxes for quite some time. Since January the citizens instead of Aquila will pay the normal rate, including arrears.
The weight of the situation ...artman
A "Telamon" caught my attention, the diagonal of a scaffold strangely coincides with the blue hands of the character ... is found to hold or to better support the weight of its load delivered to them by fate ... (Especially the rose window of the church of St. Just Bazzano).
