The Museum seen as a repository of memories to be kept and handed down has happily nourished the intrinsic meaning of its architecture for some time. Thanks to Museums, contemporary architecture has been able to express some quite extraordinary formal, constructive, and expressive potential. The Museum as an autonomous work of architecture emerged at a time when Hegel was declaring the fulfilment of the historical path of the European spirit in his Lectures on the Philosophy of World History written between 1821 and 1824. In his Lectures, Hegel highlighted a simple fact that is crucial to our historical experience. We become aware of things, Hegel said, when they appear at dusk. And at that point, we can only reminisce over what has been. However, the past – the ‘already been’ – as much as it has been summarized, schematized and reorganized through abstract and conceptual knowledge, continues to populate the spaces of our interiority and collective memory and still surfaces today as a premonitory agent of revelatory anxieties. In other words, the Museum appears to our eyes as a formidable premonitory agent of revelatory anxieties.

Il museo inteso come deposito di memorie da custodire e tramandare ha felicemente nutrito nel corso del tempo il significato intrinseco dell’architettura. Per mezzo dei musei l’architettura contemporanea è riuscita a esprimere straordinarie potenzialità formali, costruttive ed espressive. Il museo, come architettura autonoma, sorge nel momento in cui Hegel, nelle Lezioni sulla filosofia della storia redatte tra il 1821 e il 1824, dichiara il compimento del percorso storico dello spirito europeo. Nelle Lezioni Hegel pone in evidenza un fatto decisivo per la nostra esperienza storica. Noi ci accorgiamo delle cose, dice Hegel, quando esse giungono al tramonto. A quel punto possiamo soltanto rammemorare ciò che è stato. Tuttavia il passato – il già stato – per quanto riepilogato, schematizzato e riorganizzato attraverso un sapere astratto e concettuale, continua a popolare gli spazi della nostra interiorità e della memoria collettiva e continua a riemergere ancora oggi come agente premonitore d’inquietudini rivelative. In altri termini il Museo appare ai nostri occhi come un formidabile agente premonitore d’inquietudini rivelative.

Museo. Lo spazio della grazia / Museum. The space of grace / Ildebrando Clemente. - In: FESTIVAL DELL'ARCHITETTURA MAGAZINE. - ISSN 2039-0491. - ELETTRONICO. - 50:(2019), pp. 14-25.

Museo. Lo spazio della grazia / Museum. The space of grace

Ildebrando Clemente
2019

Abstract

The Museum seen as a repository of memories to be kept and handed down has happily nourished the intrinsic meaning of its architecture for some time. Thanks to Museums, contemporary architecture has been able to express some quite extraordinary formal, constructive, and expressive potential. The Museum as an autonomous work of architecture emerged at a time when Hegel was declaring the fulfilment of the historical path of the European spirit in his Lectures on the Philosophy of World History written between 1821 and 1824. In his Lectures, Hegel highlighted a simple fact that is crucial to our historical experience. We become aware of things, Hegel said, when they appear at dusk. And at that point, we can only reminisce over what has been. However, the past – the ‘already been’ – as much as it has been summarized, schematized and reorganized through abstract and conceptual knowledge, continues to populate the spaces of our interiority and collective memory and still surfaces today as a premonitory agent of revelatory anxieties. In other words, the Museum appears to our eyes as a formidable premonitory agent of revelatory anxieties.
2019
Museo. Lo spazio della grazia / Museum. The space of grace / Ildebrando Clemente. - In: FESTIVAL DELL'ARCHITETTURA MAGAZINE. - ISSN 2039-0491. - ELETTRONICO. - 50:(2019), pp. 14-25.
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