NAPLES - It is a crescent beach overlooking the barracks of the fire department Beverello. The detachment of the marine core from a different point of view it looks like a big white shell accidentally ended on the quayside. Indeed, the history of this device is complicated. At one time it was taken for rent by Caremar offices to accommodate rooms in the direction of the shipping company at the port of Naples. Until the contract is not terminated and the port authority has decided to exempt the property under the conditions of neglect in the meantime had fallen firefighters entrusting the sea, struggling with a complicated renovation of the location of his detachment. The official seat, in fact, the pier 39, fell Marinella, more near the industrial zone where the presence of an accomplice refinery fire danger is greater, is the subject of a retrofit in accordance with anti-seismic force after having been built on several occasions over the decades, in the lap of a weapons of war of World War II, remained trapped in the basement. The bullet of an American bomber M81.
"Santa Barbara has protected us for so long," say the firemen. What to Beverello arrived on tiptoe and in a little over two months since they started the operations of removal, have attracted the attention of nearby police station and tourists. Thanks to Gianni Vacca, a thirty-three Neapolitan, born in Formia, coincidentally, with a passion for travel and art. The author of the wall drawings that adorn the entrance of the new detachment of firefighters and have created a small case about the firefighter who put out the fire and turned the art on the gray walls of the barracks. In places always serious and pricked.
Gianluigi, four years military service in the Navy long before entering the body in 2000, took two months, including a pause and the other from work, to finish his work before. No design on the wall above, had assets of just drawings on paper. "I joined the fire brigade to the consideration that we have among the people. We are seen as saviors and disasters and fires are close to the people. Then I went over to art, traveling. And finding out. The Baroque in particular, the English, Neapolitan. My favorite painter is certainly Luca Giordano. " And it was divided to give a chance to bloom in Gianluigi his passion, providing at least one space to express his creativity and carte blanche to begin.
"I started drawing little compositions for colleagues who were retired. When it's moved into its new headquarters knew a bit 'all my drawings and let me complete freedom, so I started. " It took a few instruments, mostly picked up and chance to create something unique. "For I used chalk drawings and a fixative. The plaster, the colors were very few indeed, taken by a colleague. And the spray to fix, I hope that he may judge as long as possible. The proportions have been difficult. All eye. " And the eyes on the work of Gianluigi Vaccà have put the neighbors, the port, the police whose place at this point seems barren and anonymous, who have already made a proposal to firefighter-artist. Author
in detail of a wall facing the sea with marine compositions, another side of earth is consecrated to the patron saint Barbara, San Giorgio a brigade and very special. Then the ceiling with the emblem of the red helmets to frame the wind rose, emblem core that characterizes the marine detachment at the dock. "On the wall there is a sea side with the ship sails in the wind god, a sea horse next to a rudder control and a fantasy, a fireman aboard a surfboard. That land is dedicated to our ideals symbols. The firefighter-angel, as in the imagination. Santa Barbara as a Statue of Liberty, sculpted by a fireman and then just a remake of the classic San Giorgio. To stop the legendary dragon, here is the fire extinguisher. "
Sandro Di Domenico
July 21, 2009 (Last updated: July 22, 2009)
Source: Corriere del Mezzogiorno.it
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