papa giovanni
teca rammemorante cinetica
recollection kinetic display case
Ancora una teca dedicata a Torino ( vedi post "L'unica Augusta", 2011), alla mia città. Sono presenti alcuni dei suoi simboli e altri introdotti negli anni '50 con la grande immigrazione dal Sud Italia: dopo ci furono il boom, la televisione, le auto. Il riflettore in alto a sinistra è un promemoria sia dei riflettori della storia operaia degli anni '70, che vide protagonista questa città del Nord Italia, sia per ricordarci della nascita dell'industria del cinema italiano, proprio a Torino, negli anni '20. Una città ritirata dal resto della penisola e baricentrata verso la Francia fino a due secoli fa, quando decide di oscillare verso la penisola e occuparsi di storia italiana.
Another display case dedicated to my town, Turin. Its own symbols ( the Toret, a bullit shape green fountain who is placed all over the town, and the Mole Antonelliana, now the site for the Museum of Cinema but originally was supposed to be the town synagogue) and the ones* introduced in the 50s' and 60s' by the great immigration from the South of Italy: then it began the "golden age", the television, the cars. Turin's was quite far from the Italian peninsula, more linked to its neighbour France, until the XIXth century, when Savoia monarchy made itself a leading role in the creation of our nation ( 1861).
* the explanation of those symbols see pics below
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The gobbo ( the hunchback), the corno ( the horn) and the fica ( the Devil's horns) are apotropaic, to avoid back luck, superstitious objects more typical from the South of Italy that, before the great immigration, were almost unkown to the people living in the North West of the peninsula.
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L'ultimo re di Torino fu Giovanni Agnelli jr., Gioanin Lamiera, nipote di quel Giovanni Agnelli che da Villar Perosa arrivò a Torino alla fine del XIX° secolo. Si spense nella sua villa sulla collina torinese il 24 gennaio 2003: la camera ardente venne allestita nella Pinacoteca del Lingotto ed i suoi funerali che si svolsero nel Duomo di Torino vennero trasmessi da Rai Uno e seguiti da oltre 10mila persone.
The last king of Turin was Giovanni Agnelli jr. ( the nick name the working class of his car factory gave to him was something like Johnny Plate ), nephew of Giovanni Agnelli senior, the founder of the FIAT factory. He was the maker of the great factory development that gave work, during the 50's, 60's and part of the 70's, to a great amount of people that moved from the South to the North of Italy. Even if he was attacked, as himself and as a symbol of capitalism, during the working class struggle in the 70's and 80's, when he died in 2003 a lot of workers went to his funeral in tears, claiming that he saved them from poverty, giving to them work to provide money for their families. His funeral was broadcasted by the most important Italian channel, RAI 1, and celebrated in the most important catholic church in Turin.
collage e assemblage, oggetti in plastca, modellino di Fiat 500, in cornice Ikea® cm. 16x16x3, 2011
collage and assemblage, plastic little objects, miniature of Fiat 500 car, in Ikea® frame 16x16x3 cm., 2011
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