In recent years, the theme of the “disenchantment” and “re-enchantment” of the world has become increasingly important in Italian and international debate. Due to an increasingly widespread perception of the crisis of the capitalist modernity project, the problem of disenchantment – understood as a phenomenon linked to the process of rationalisation that has affected social life and common experience at all levels – is now back in philosophical, sociological and anthropological thinking, almost a century after Weber's theory, involving many scholars (from Stiegler to Latour to Federici, Consigliere and Rosa with the concept of “resonance”). Contemporary artistic practices have also been “infected” by this renewed interest. In this sense, one of the most significant examples in Italy is Michelangelo Frammartino. Indeed, in many of his works, the form of an “impersonal novel” seems to construct an effectively “re-enchanted” view of the world and the natural environment, which sees humans connecting and, in a certain sense, merging with animals and plants, and in which the image is saturated with landscape. From this point of view, in his cinematographic works – but also in his installations – the image becomes a “presence” to investigate the meaning of a world that “resonates” in its irreducible contingency.
Negli ultimi anni il tema del “disincantamento” e del “reincantamento” del mondo ha acquisito una rilevanza sempre maggiore all’interno del dibattito italiano e internazionale. Complice una percezione sempre più diffusa della crisi del progetto della modernità capitalista, il problema del “disincanto” – inteso come fenomeno legato al processo di razionalizzazione che ha investito la vita sociale e l’esperienza comune a tutti i livelli – è tornato a occupare la riflessione filosofica, sociologica e antropologica a distanza di quasi un secolo dalla teorizzazione di Weber, coinvolgendo molti studiosi (da Stiegler a Latour fino a Federici, Consigliere e Rosa con il concetto di “risonanza”). Anche le pratiche artistiche contemporanee sono state “contagiate” da questo rinnovato interesse. In tal senso, uno degli esempi più significativi in ambito italiano è rappresentato da Michelangelo Frammartino. In molto dei suoi lavori, infatti, la forma di un “romanzesco impersonale” sembra costruire uno sguardo effettivamente “reincantato” sul mondo e sull’ambiente naturale, che vede l’umano connettersi e, in un certo senso, fondersi con l’animale e il vegetale, e in cui l’immagine è saturata dal paesaggio. Da questo punto di vista, nelle sue opere cinematografiche – ma anche nelle sue installazioni – l’immagine si fa “presenza” per indagare la sensatezza di un mondo che “risuona” nella sua irriducibile contingenza.
Il romanzesco come “reincantamento” del mondo in Michelangelo Frammartino / D'Ammando, Andrea. - In: FATA MORGANA. - ISSN 1970-5786. - 57(2025), pp. 133-144.
Il romanzesco come “reincantamento” del mondo in Michelangelo Frammartino
Andrea D'Ammando
2025
Abstract
In recent years, the theme of the “disenchantment” and “re-enchantment” of the world has become increasingly important in Italian and international debate. Due to an increasingly widespread perception of the crisis of the capitalist modernity project, the problem of disenchantment – understood as a phenomenon linked to the process of rationalisation that has affected social life and common experience at all levels – is now back in philosophical, sociological and anthropological thinking, almost a century after Weber's theory, involving many scholars (from Stiegler to Latour to Federici, Consigliere and Rosa with the concept of “resonance”). Contemporary artistic practices have also been “infected” by this renewed interest. In this sense, one of the most significant examples in Italy is Michelangelo Frammartino. Indeed, in many of his works, the form of an “impersonal novel” seems to construct an effectively “re-enchanted” view of the world and the natural environment, which sees humans connecting and, in a certain sense, merging with animals and plants, and in which the image is saturated with landscape. From this point of view, in his cinematographic works – but also in his installations – the image becomes a “presence” to investigate the meaning of a world that “resonates” in its irreducible contingency.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.


