Fiori di Melograno

“The artist chose to represent a typical flower of the Molise countryside, whose history is rich in meaning.

That of the pomegranate, in fact, is a history as old as man, thousands of years old and which has reached the Mediterranean from the East, driven by the Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans and Arabs. Thiago Mazza comes from the West bringing with him the study of vegetation and flora. At the center of this symposium is Civitacampomarano, whose countryside, especially in the days of June and July, shines with a red tending towards orange. It is the color of the flower of the Punica granatum, or pomegranate.

Thiago in the first days in the village observed the vegetation, with tact he felt its roughness and softness and with his sense of smell the scents. Then Mario, father of one of the festival organisers, showed him this silky fruit of nature, incandescent and alive.

Made not far from the wall of the two Spanish artists Cristian Blanxer and Victor Garcia Repo, the mural rests on the upper facade of a building and represents two very obvious pomegranate flowers lying on a light blue background like the sky of these summer days and clear of clouds. One flower has already bloomed, the other is still half-enclosed, a cyclic dance at the base of life.

The visual and chromatic impact then accompanies a series of meanings: narrated and present in different religions and cultures, both the flower and the fruit itself, they symbolise fertility, productivity, hospitality and also the cohesion of peoples (think of pomegranate grains next to each other). Civitacampomarano, in recent years, has been the crossroads of all this and the meaning that this community wants to convey is one: here life goes on.”