Italo calvino la foresta radice labirinto

In the XVIII century, the same theatres opened to the paying audience. During the XVII century, in the string puppet theatres of the palaces, architects and experts used to produce fine performances addressed to the guests. In the Middle Ages profane and religious performances, such as the Nativity and the Passion, were performed in courts and in the streets, where figures would fight or dance, being manipulated with different techniques, such as jigging-puppets, bavastelli, marionettes or string puppets.ДЇrom the XVI to the XVIII century, Italy was an important centre from where string and hand puppet shows would spread. In all European countries we can find marionettes, hand puppets and pupi. In Greece and Sicily during the Classical period puppet shows were performed for entertainment.

In Mesopotamia and in Egypt the animation of the statues representing their gods was very usual during religious practices. The animation of images dates back to ancient times.

Moreover in 2017, it obtained the Icom Italy award as 'Museum of the Year'. The Museum pays also attention to the activityof production and education.Д¬onfirming its cultural value, in 2001 the Antonio Pasqualino Museum was awarded the prestigious anthropological prize 'Costantino Nigra'. In addition to the safeguard and conservation of artworks, the Antonio Pasqualino International Puppet Museum carries out many activities aimed to promote puppet theatre such as the organization of exhibitions in Italy and abroad. Recently, the Museum has also acquired two sets of table top puppets made by Enrico Baj for two other shows by Massimo Schuster: Roncisvalle and Mahabharata.

The collection also includes important contemporary works of art, namely those created for three shows produced by the Museum between the Eighties and the Nineties: a set design and puppets drew by Renato Guttuso for the show Foresta-radice-labirinto ( Forest, Root, Labyrinth) written by Italo Calvino and directed by Roberto AndГІ (1987) the puppets and theatrical machines made by the Polish artist and director Tadeusz Kantor for the show Macchina dell'amore e della morte ( The Machine of Love and Death вЂ“ 1987) the puppets made by Enrico Baj used in the show Le bleu-blanc-rouge et le Noir performed by the Arc-en-terre of Massimo Schuster. The collection also includes objects and props used in the other puppet traditions which obtained the same award: the Japanese Ningyo Johruri Bunraku, the Indonesian Wayang Kulit, the Cambodian Sbek Thom the Korean Namsadang Nori - Kkoktu-gaksi Norum, the Turkish Karag Г¶z and the Sri Lankan R Е«kada N ДЃ tya. Among these, it houses the largest and most complete collection of pupi from Palermo, Catania and Naples, used in the Opera dei pupi, that is Sicilian traditional puppet theatre, proclaimed by UNESCO a 'Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity' in 2001. It conserves more than 5,000 items, including marionettes, marottes, hand puppets, shadow puppets, theatrical machines and playbills from all around the world. The Antonio Pasqualino International Puppet Museum was founded in 1975 by the Association for the Conservation of Folk Traditions.

Italo calvino la foresta radice labirinto