THE HOUSE OF CHAOS - A House for Luigi Pirandello

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Luigi Pirandello, the great Italian writer, who received the Nobel prize in 1934, was born about 3km away from The Valley of the Temples, the famed site in Sicily.
And in some ways Pirandello deserved to be named "the father of modern playwriting," since he showed the doubts, the chaos of the modern mind.
The image above shows a fallen god... and the remains of a temple.

We ask you to celebrate the 150th birthday of Luigi Pirandello by imagining, not far from The Valley of the Temples, THE HOUSE OF CHAOS, since he was born in Chaos, a suburb of Agrigento.
In a certain way, thus, we will have a dialogue between the Ancient times, with their heroic creativity and their belief in the gods, and the Modern times, faithless, disoriented, chaotic.
Yes, let's be creative by being truthful to our times, by imagining some kind of "anti-temple," THE HOUSE OF CHAOS, that would represent, quintessentially, our time.
And let's thus pay homage to a great playwright, who felt all too well the anguish we ourselves are unable to escape.
Thank you,

ICARCH Gallery

Luigi Pirandello was born in a suburb of Agrigento called Cavusu (chaos – in English).
So when he stated that “I am a child of Chaos and not metaphorically, but in reality) he was telling the truth.
Yet, what is “truth”…? And what is “reality”…? And what is appearance…?
Indeed, his life was often chaotic… and so the frontier between “reality” and appearance was blurred, in his work.
On the occasion of his 150th birthday, on June 28th this year, we ask you to imagine THE HOUSE OF CHAOS or THE HOUSE OF LIMINALITY, on the very plot of land where his own birth house is, on the Southern edge of Sicily, facing the Mediterranean Sea and, beyond it, Africa.

Let’s imagine THE QUINTESSENTIAL HOUSE OF CHAOS, OR HOUSE OF LIMINALITY.

It would only be appropriate, considering the meanings of his work.
And the theme should concern us all.
That area where Pirandello’s birthplace is infused with an ancient history, since the Valley of Temples is not far… but we don’t believe any longer in the gods, nor do we seriously build temples any longer.

But maybe now it is a good occasion, reflecting on the work of Luigi Pirandello, to imagine THE HOUSE OF CHAOS… ambitiously, in a way, to imagine a "temple" dedicated to chaos, or to liminality.

• The House of Borders.
• The House of Thresholds.
• The House of In-betweenness.
• The House of Twoness.
• The House of Doubt.
• The House of Chaos.
• The House on the Fringe.

These themes, we feel, are very important, maybe more today than at any other time in the past.
We could very well identify with the problems and themes described in Pirandello’s works. We suggest the links below for further readings on this subject:

Marco’s Sicily – Agrigento, Luigi Pirandello and Kaos (Chaos)

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/consolation-from-chaos-on-luigi-pirandello/#!

The site for your proposal should be the one within the red square, in the picture above. In the picture below it is within the yellow circle on the left, on the right side, with a yellow perimeter line you can see the Valley of Temples... interesting proximity... on the left, Modernity, with its lack of faith, on the right, the physical proof, still standing after more than 2,000 years, of what we call "the Ancient times," when human beings believed in the gods and built for them. This antithesis makes this place remarkable and we would like to explore its full potential.

The deadline to submit your work is August 10th, 2017. Please register before the deadline to receive a registration number with which to anonymously identify your work. There is a registration fee of 20 euro which will enable us to print your work and exhibit it during the Architecture Festival we are organizing in Vienna, during the month of August. Please send as a maximum of two sheets format A0, preferably vertically oriented (portrait). If you have any question, please contact us.
Thank you,