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    A Popolo of Artists: Music, painting, theater and more at Damanhur
    A Popolo of Artists: Music, painting, theater and more at Damanhur
    A Popolo of Artists: Music, painting, theater and more at Damanhur
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    A Popolo of Artists: Music, painting, theater and more at Damanhur

    By Stambecco Pesco, Unicorno Arachide and Ciprea Calendula

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    Art is a spiritual language with the ability to awaken the creative potential in each human being.
    Take a journey through the various Damanhurian artistic expressions to discover a place where the creativity of individuals is harmonized to create a cultural identity that tells the myth of a new people.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDEVODAMA
    Release dateJun 16, 2017
    ISBN9788899652715
    A Popolo of Artists: Music, painting, theater and more at Damanhur

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      A Popolo of Artists - Stambecco Pesco

      Damjl

      Popolo art

      It is impossible to visit Damanhur and not recognize how art represents a funda-mental value in the lives of Damanhurians. Just about everywhere—from the biggest to the smallest community—the houses are painted with bright designs, there are mosaics and statues, and posters announcing upcoming plays and concerts organized by citizens of the community catch the eye. Across the territories, nature and art blend together in a continuous search for a harmony that can become the visual background of a daily existence imbued with beauty and meaning.

      To give and create meaning is the founding principle of a community in which spirituality is defined by the ability to see and read the meaning in everything—tracing and retracing the threads that connect the human being to the universe and all the entities that inhabit it. Adding meaning is the foundation of the artistic processes of every culture and people—to transcend what things, objects and actions are, and enter a field of symbolism, metaphor and what the artist attributes to the object itself in order to reinvent and rediscover meaning for the artist and for others. A work of art has value if it strikes a chord, if creates movement, if it produces an emotion or new way of thinking that did not exist before, or if it touches the spirit or creates that union in which artist and spectator recognize each other as parts of the same whole.

      Damanhurians define themselves as a popolo—a coming together of people from different ethnicities and cultures that share a strong ideal and daily life. A popolo is born by choice, and not by coincidence it is another founding principle of the Damanhurian spiritual vision.

      The stages that signal the birth and formation of a popolo have always been articulated by the artistic works they create to tell their history—daily experiences and the entirety of a shared existence that can be seen and touched, and can become a tangible heritage for future generations. "Symbols are best handed-down carved in stone rather than printed on paper.

      Words transform over time and change value, while the symbolism superimposed over a figure is preserved with greater density."¹

      Art therefore becomes the crucible of a collective culture—it tells the myth of that popolo—and is used to create a cultural identity, not just as the expression of the individual artist.

      The art in Damanhur aims to be art of the popolo—of the people. Through the artists, it attempts to transcend individual identity and immerse itself in the values of the popolo. To give life to this collective identity and its unique expression, the artists recognize themselves in a common vision and together create a connective tissue from which derive the shared canons of Damanhurian art—canons which express themselves through the sensitivity and flair of the individual artist. The strength of working in groups is that it allows for a wider vision, and each person enriches the work by adding a new point of view, additional sensations and individual professional and artistic talent.

      The Damanhurian artist wants to give value to individual uniqueness, while at the same time, value the ability to be and participate with others in the creation of a singular piece. Art grows if the artist grows, and the latter becomes the medium of a creative act that is also art of the popolo. It is the union inspiration-artist-observer that gives value to what is created and enriches the sense of collaboration and the know-how to integrate and forge together different languages. It is this combined language that

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