L’esprit du lieu et son fantôme. La restauration créative d’Edoardo Tresoldi
Journal
Itinera. Rivista di filosofia e teoria delle arti
ISSN
2039-9251
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2021
Author(s)
Abstract
The paper considers the creative restoration of an early Christian basilica in Siponto, Apulia, realized by Italian artist Edoardo Tresoldi. Tresoldi resorts to the wire mesh as an artistic material: the restored basilica thus results in a monumental but evanescent building. After an introduction describing the public artwork, the paper unfolds in two main sections. In the first one, the focus is on the concept of genius loci as a distinctive character of Tresoldi’s poetics. Through an Heideggerian lens, the stress is put on the existential value of dwelling, which is highlighted by the restored church. The second section focuses on the ghostly and uncanny (unheimlich) appearance of the basilica. Thanks to authors such as Derrida and Didi-Huberman, it is shown that a genius deloci is at work in the site as well, calling into question the different temporalities that animate the basilica. Genius loci and genius deloci finally prove as a conceptual couple capable of providing us with an access to the artwork; nevertheless, they are not understood as a dichotomy, i.e. as mutually exclusive concepts, but as opposite notions that “haunt” each other and that cannot but be used together, in the postmodernist fashion of double-coding.
Language
French
Keywords
Edoardo Tresoldi
Martin Heidegger
Jacques Derrida
genius loci
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
Milano University Press
Number
22
Start page
196
End page
212
Subject(s)
Division(s)
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Iacobone_Itinera 22.pdf
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