Opening March 16, 2024, at 5:00 PM, ends on March 30, 2024
Monday-Friday 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM, Saturday-Sunday 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
The exhibition "The Soul of Puppets" is an intense narrative about the world of puppets and puppeteers, a world that is at risk of disappearing and needs to be protected as it is one of the pillars of our identity.
The author, Alessandro Ingoglia, focuses on the intimacy that is established between the puppeteer and his puppets, offering us a non-stereotyped account of the puppeteer's family, a tradition that has been passed down through generations, consisting of sons of flesh and wood.
The exhibited work is an excerpt from the eponymous photographic book, published by Museo Pasqualino (2023). It consists of thirty photographs divided, as in the book, into two chapters: "The Workshop" with black and white images, and "The Performance" with color photos. Black and white represents the phase in which the wood and raw metal, the raw materials of Sicilian puppets, are still to be shaped and forged.
With the performance, the puppeteer gives his puppets a voice, a character, movement. The color thus expresses the transition to life that materializes during the show and lasts for a limited time; a time that repeats itself over and over again, with adventures and stories always different, as happens in life itself.
Attached to the event is the talk on March 23, 2024, at 5:00 PM, titled The world of puppets between narrative and document. Anna Fici from Collettivof will converse with anthropologist Stefano Montes and puppeteer Salvatore Blumbello.
