From today and until 24 September Palazzo della Cancelleria, in the center of Rome, hosts the exhibition “Basilicata Sacra: another sky”. It is a journey through the spiritual, artistic and popular roots of Basilicata. The initiative was born from the collaboration between the Basilicata Region, APT Basilicata and the Episcopal Conference of Basilicata, with the patronage of the Dicastery for evangelization.
The Region has an enormous and valuable artistic and spiritual heritage. There are the large cathedrals (such as those of Matera, Acerenza and Tursi), abbeys and sacred chapels of all kinds, places of devotion, the rock churches of Matera, masterpieces such as the Polyptych of Cima da Conegliano kept in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Miglionico.
“Basilicata Sacra wants to be an invitation to rediscover, through faith and culture, those places of the spirit that are a source of peace and rebirth for our people. This exhibition represents an opportunity to live our tradition with renewed sense of belonging and spirituality”, he says Don Antonio Laurita, scientific consultant of the Basilicata episcopal conference for the Jubilee.
The exhibition develops along four rooms. In the first, symbols of the six dioceses of the Region are presented; The second is dedicated to popular piety, with the exhibition of artifacts linked to traditional rites, still very practiced and participated throughout Basilicata; The third room presents the stations of a Via Crucis created with Pittosculture of the artist Lucano Franco Corbisiero; The last room has a video. It is an immersive experience that invites us to live a spiritual “other sky”, where the public enters as a spectator and comes out protagonist of an inner journey capable of speaking to the soul of each.
As Davide Carbonaro, archbishop of Potenza-Muro Lucano-Marsico Nuovo and President of the Basilicata’s Episcopal Conference: “The value of the exhibition is to present the heritage of the heart of our people”.
