San Gennaro is, therefore, one of the most famous and venerable Catholic martyrs in the world on account of the miracle of the liquefaction of his blood. The story of devotion and faith constantly overlaps and intertwines myths and rites of religious and cultural Mediterranean heritage, linking it inextricably to the city of Naples and projecting it overseas through emigration. This strong image of the Saint, so embedded in a specific environment (Naples and Mount Vesuvius) as well as shared by a multiethnic nation of believers throughout the centuries, has been the subject of a lively artistic expression renewing itself, to date, through the work of young contemporary artists in multiple forms that have told their image of San Gennaro. The research for the development of the projects submitted for the “Premio Ianuarius” (and presented here in part through Figs. 4, 6, 8, 10, 12-16) has therefore founded the creativity of the works on the study of historical and iconographic sources, awareness of the social dimension of the Saint as well as the analysis of the most recent contemporary art. The codes, methods and techniques of graphic design, innovated by the contribution of new technological frontiers of infographic communication, have formed the operational tools to receive, process and translate into a multimedia ideological positions that between tradition and innovation return the figure of San Gennaro as an intangible cultural heritage of the Mediterranean and abroad.
I volti di San Gennaro. Primo Premio ‘Ianuarius’ per un progetto di comunicazione grafica multimediale
ZERLENGA, Ornella
2015
Abstract
San Gennaro is, therefore, one of the most famous and venerable Catholic martyrs in the world on account of the miracle of the liquefaction of his blood. The story of devotion and faith constantly overlaps and intertwines myths and rites of religious and cultural Mediterranean heritage, linking it inextricably to the city of Naples and projecting it overseas through emigration. This strong image of the Saint, so embedded in a specific environment (Naples and Mount Vesuvius) as well as shared by a multiethnic nation of believers throughout the centuries, has been the subject of a lively artistic expression renewing itself, to date, through the work of young contemporary artists in multiple forms that have told their image of San Gennaro. The research for the development of the projects submitted for the “Premio Ianuarius” (and presented here in part through Figs. 4, 6, 8, 10, 12-16) has therefore founded the creativity of the works on the study of historical and iconographic sources, awareness of the social dimension of the Saint as well as the analysis of the most recent contemporary art. The codes, methods and techniques of graphic design, innovated by the contribution of new technological frontiers of infographic communication, have formed the operational tools to receive, process and translate into a multimedia ideological positions that between tradition and innovation return the figure of San Gennaro as an intangible cultural heritage of the Mediterranean and abroad.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
