LATIANO – Ten years after his death, the association Art, culture and tradition Enzo Murra was born in Latiano. On the occasion, on June 20, at 7 pm in the Mother Church, Monsignor Domenico Caliandro, archbishop of the diocese of Brindisi-Ostuni and spiritual father of the master, will celebrate a mass that will symbolically mark the start of the organization’s activities. Artist, researcher, scholar, faithful: these are just some of the names useful to describe the articulate figure of one of the most prolific cultural agitators that Latiano has ever had.
Enzo Murra was alive and continues to be in the memory a point of reference for discovering aspects of our past among the folds of history and art that, without an effort of research and recovery, would be lost. The association Art culture and tradition Enzo Murra was born by the will of the children, Claudio, who is its president, and Annamaria, and some active citizens and will take care of the organization and management of cultural and artistic activities, including editorial initiatives, and of interventions to protect and enhance the historical and landscape heritage.
“We would like the association – explain the children – to become an instrument for research, dissemination and enhancement of the specificities of our territory”. The group born around the figure of Murra wants to act as a reference, supporting local institutions in promoting greater accessibility to the cultural, religious and natural resources of the place: meetings, study activities, research, fundraisers and goods will be organized, also in collaboration with other associations with similar purposes. Ultimately, the cultural partnership aims to carry on the values cultivated in life by Murra who distinguished himself during his earthly journey for curiosity, talent, empathy and love for his land.
It is no coincidence that Murra, after early learning and study experiences, thanks to his father Salvatore, master of decoration and favorite disciple of Agesilao Flora, in May 1969 founded the Pro Loco of Latiano, becoming its president. Murra was also appointed by the Ministry as honorary inspector for the conservation of monuments and objects of antiquity and art for the province of Brindisi for the commitment to protect the archaeological area of Muro Tenente. In 1974 he inaugurated the Museum of Arts and Traditions which he set up piece by piece: of particular interest are the ethnographic studies that reconstruct the rural, peasant and popular environments of the past, bringing out the genuineness and poverty of that world through scenes of everyday life, in the fields, in the shops and in the family.
Another fundamental aspect to get to know the artist, the scholar and the man better is the spiritual one: since 1993, Murra has been a permanent deacon, adding to his artistic life a profound but simple, Franciscanly speaking, spirituality deriving from a deeply rooted Christian faith. Ultimately, the light that filters through the infinite faces of this brilliant prism must not be lost: the cultural association Enzo Murra, therefore, has as its main objective the preservation of the memory of man with all his innumerable incarnations to transmit to future generations the values of the Master and the love for the territory, its history and art, which have guided his journey on Earth.
Ten years after his death, the Enzo Murra Art, Culture and Tradition Association was born