Cultural Heritage are in crisis after Article Giordano Bruno Guerri published in the Journal, which shows that if you want you can manage cultural heritage in a modern way and even with gains, let me say something about the issue of Pompeii and our archaeological heritage.
With the collapse of the Domus Gladiators' I thought that after the usual 'red-hot controversy' of the early days everything would be back in silence, as always happened in the past three decades, as happened recently with the letter of 'archaeologist who spoke of the happy days of idleness in the Superintendency, published by Felt in the Journal a few months ago.
(http://www.ilgiornale.it/interni/soprintendenze_cosi_non_lavoriamo/05-05-2010/articolo-id=442779-page=0-comments=1)
Why now, suddenly, they discover all the cultural heritage, the endless treasures of Pompeii and the Italian state has always been left to rot? The thing I stink ... That there is some hope, that you are finally repented? There is no danger, not even to dream!
Actually Bondi is just one of many scapegoats in the course of the paroxysm by the opposition, which clings to everything to bring down the government and hate Berlusconi.
The Vestal preservation is not tear their garments in the name of Art and Culture, but more prosaically because they hope that the government drop everything and come back as before. The hopes of the ancient establishment media, Santoro in the head. (I think that even some mafia Sperino which it says Saviano like much more than what he has done and is doing ... Maroni).
Bondi is not a hole that the video with his charisma, but it was not the worst (or best) of many Ministers of Culture that have taken place in recent decades. I recall that under the guiding light of Veltroni and Rutelli (and champion of Culture of the Left, the Right is not vulgar and ignorant) in 2001 collapsed a section of the Aurelian Walls of Rome, as it happens after the restoration of the Jubilee (with a 2007). After a bombastic promises of a rapid build brick by brick, all lying there for ten years, there has been growing over the grass and nothing has been done. At the time, no one has asked for the resignation of those two, that even now would Ammann again with a government of broad agreements or some other similar boiata; Veltroni was mayor of Rome, Rutelli Minister of Cultural Heritage.
The ongoing feud - because this is all about - not about protecting our artistic and cultural heritage, which do not give absolutely anything to anyone - To the right or left (he said it also Settis). The real bone of contention is the large funds that are supposed to be allocated to the maintenance and restoration of our monuments, and in fact were always intended to use anything.
Where the money is gone in about a month ago Resca Rai2 said he did not even have been spent in its entirety? Simple, in things as useless as lucrative, and only within narrow the usual friends of friends. Someone has ever been made to control expenditure in Italy for a myriad of shows and more or less useless ephemera, where you spend every year millions of € dished out to architects, relatives, friends, projects, consultations, exhibitions, catalogs, insurance, booklets and conventions of limited cultural impact of dubious economic performance? What happened to the European funds that no one has ever asked if you do not pay for the Elton John concert in Naples?
anyone has ever gone to see how the restoration has been made and what materials? It 's just ridiculous to cry on the collapse of the Domus Aurea arguing that took place because it rained a lot. The Domus Aurea has survived intact under dozens of feet of earth for a thousand and nine hundred years, and humidity will have sight! I made hasty repairs made with concrete more damage in the last ten years than in all previous centuries. But no one is responsible.
In Pompeii the horrendous collapse of reinforced concrete shell of the seventies, and will continue to break down the walls that for centuries are under the weather without protection, while the frescoes have faded completely.
Today these beautiful souls of Superintendents complain because they have no money for petrol, and claim to be solitary and selfless heroes who work for a few euro for the Common Good. They discover - along with hot water - that the only real way to preserve the monuments is to send someone to sweep up the leaves and weed a few times a week, and that it would take the roofs in Pompeii. They discover in a few words it would take quell'ordinaria maintenance who have never known or wanted to do for decades.
And the great thing is that they speak as if they were strangers, as if they were the ones who had to deal with the protection and preservation of our cultural heritage, as if they were not their primary responsibility, however, in good company.
actually are making a real boycott: we have cut the funds? Okay, so we let down Pompeii and everything else, so we will say that it's all because of that stingy with Tremonti and his partner Bondi. (If you also give him the funds would continue to dissipate as they have done so far).
Another painful chapter of sponsors are funding. Although foreigners, since the time of "cultural deposits" De Michelis have learned well - the hard way - the Neapolitan motto "ACCA nisciuno is a fool. Until the Superintendent claimed to be giving money sight unseen to them at their leisure and without any control, there will never be anyone who sponsors a scucirà € or put your mark on the restoration of any kind. This is also true of the generous offer of the valley which would give the funds to renovate the Coliseum's wait and see what will fight to share the leave ...
Finally, campaign tracking and study of which he wrote Carandini, the leading Italian archaeologist. There are five hundred years that you chasing the legendary catalog of everything, just be content to use the profiling that have been made so far.
For those missing would be sensible to realize a true collaboration between the Superintendent and the Universities: there too much work to do, the only way to do this would all work together. But it is not so simple: for decades and Superintendents University become a war never openly declared, in an inextricable tangle of hatreds, resentments, jealousies, accusations of ignorance, obstructionism and defeatism, which culminated with the epithet cross "Taliban conservation ". They are condemned to work together and there is no way out, but let him understand!
dull and stupid in that world, the idea that the archives of public documents Superintendents are paid with our money, and therefore should be open to all citizens, not nearly none of the officials. The idea that students can work on cataloging the millions of artifacts that fill endless and inaccessible storage is systematically discouraged and boycotted, because they see their skeletons in the closet. The symbolic image of this situation is the final scene of the film "Indiana Jones Lost Ark" when the Ark of the Covenant is brought to lose in a huge warehouse-storage, where it will disappear into thin air.
Whoever goes abroad see that four miserable old stones are kept as a relic and create an induced tourism, just like it did the War on Vittoriale. It does not take an expert in economics and marketing to understand that Italy could live the high curing, preserving and enhancing the best own immense cultural heritage.
The paradox is that there is so much work for all, by archaeologists to the craftsmen of the restoration, to industries of tourism and trade.
Beware of this TV program on RAI-3 September 27, 2009, entitled Gold Butte: http://www.rai.tv/dl/RaiTV/programmi/media/ContentItem-f10cea7e-5374-4f4a-9cde-01cedee93c5a.html ? p = 0
The official excuse is that we too, the truth is that we have too much red tape that prevents any meaningful intervention. He wants a monopoly of all: the study, protection, restoration, management, marketing, and thus ends up doing everything wrong.
The Government have not yet understood as a potential reservoir of votes would have if gave job opportunities to those who give up now - hunger - to work in the Cultural Heritage, or flee abroad. We export and import criminals brain.
Marina Mascetti
