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28° Convegno Internazionale Scienza e Beni
culturali LA CONSERVAZIONE DEL PATRIMONIO ARCHITETTONICO ALL'APERTO SUPERFICI, STRUTTURE, FINITURE E CONTESTI Bressanone, 10 13 luglio 2012 |
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Valentina Russo1, Giovanna Ceniccola2
1 University of Naples Federico II, Dept. of History of Architecture and Restoration, via Monteoliveto 3, Naples (Italy), valentina.russo@unina.it
2 University of Naples Federico II, Dept. of History of Architecture and Restoration, via Monteoliveto 3, Naples (Italy), giovanna.ceniccola@unina.it
ABSTRACT
The Mostra of Oltremare in Naples provides a privileged observatory for variety of architectures of the problems regarding the execution and the state of conservation of “representative” fronts at the turn of World War II through the adoption of materials and building techniques oscillating between tradition and innovation. Similarly, it offers a complex repertoire of solutions in which architectural research blends with that of art: in this regard, the surfaces of architecture, at the same time surfaces of art, reflect a complete symbiosis connoting the rhetoric of fascism. This is the case of the Tropical Aquarium by C. Cocchia, architecture in a deep decay, whose prospects are coated by majolica facings by Paolo Ricci mixing the inspiration from Mexican murales with the technique of Neapolitan “riggiola”. Likewise, a convergence of architectural significance and the language of art can be found in the Golden Cube, coated by a vitreous graniglia, in the Fountain of the Exedra, object of a recent restoration or, finally, in the Pavilion of the Italian Islands in the Aegean Sea that expects for a conservation work. Measuring these issues in relation to the Mostra of Oltremare, the paper aims to highlighting the specific and prevalent problems of such “decorated” architectures of the 20th century where the surface, exposed to open air with its vulnerability, becomes the place of artistic fruition but, at the same time, the recording medium of the interaction between architecture and the external environment.
Key-words: Surfaces, modern architecture, decorative art, decay, conservation.