The project Dentro il restauro – litterally Inside the restoration – was born, after 15 years from the 2009 earth-quake, to deepen some meaningful retrievals of L’Aquila architectural heritage, highlighting how restorations have been able to give back, technically, artistically and historically.
This journal gives evidence to this first cycle of meetings. A 0 number, in the intentions.
Three are the monuments selected for this path of study, three meaningful places for the city: the artistic stratifications of the Church of St. Silvestro and of the Chapel Branconio, summa of the history of a meaningful and influential family; the journey back through the centuries, down to the Franciscan movement, amongst spirituality and beauty in the Convent of St. Giuliano and in the older Conventino; the masterly junction of contemporary art, so multi-disciplinary and eclectic, with the lavish venue of a Palace like Palazzo Ardinghelli, which hosts the costant mutation of MAXXI L’Aquila.
Three stories, far in terms of themes and prospective, united by the awareness that restoration is not only reparation or preservation but more and more often disclosure, re-interpretation and connection.