Bernardo Lanzetti explains THE EMPATHIC MOVEMENT

THE EMPATHIC MOVEMENT

(2020 ONWARD)

The Empathic Movement (Italian: La Scuola Empatica / Empatismo) is a literary, artistic, philosophical and cultural movement founded in the South of Italy in 2020 within the 'New Cultural Triangle of Ancient Cilento: Omignano - "The Aphorisms Village", Salento - "The Poetry Village", Vallo della Lucania - "Seat of Contemporary Arts Centre". From this first Triangle the Cultural Pyramid of Cilento was born to represent the enlarged epicenter of the Movement with 25 villages involved which joined with a new cultural identity and signing a protocol agreement.

In that particular year, with the heavy lonliness arrived from the hard pandemic, the poet, writer and literary critic Menotti Lerro asked several noted artists to sign the “Empathic Manifesto” - written with the visual artist Antonello Pelliccia - to join in their peculiar expression of the “Arts” in a less individualistic way. They then started to help create a new cultural pole in Southern Italy, giving life first to the “Contemporary Arts Centre” in the Cilento area, which has invented "The Poetry Village", "The Aphorisms Village" and The Cilento Poetry Prize, giving light to new territory in terms of culture. The decentralization of culture gives voice to the silent masses of Cilento especially the peasant ones in the mountains, with a peculiar emphasis on intense and genuine emotion and feelings to share with others through Arts, refusing individualism, social exclusion, excesses of competition among artists and also rejecting the large phenomenon of plagiarism mainly due to the mass media and internet in particular.

In 2023 the Musician Stefano Pantaleoni, from Parma Conservatory Arrigo Boito, composed the official anthem of the Empathic Movement.

In 2024 the Italian painter Omar Galliani, from Brera Academy, drew the figure of Unus, the symbolic Total Artist of the Empathic Movement.

The Cilento Poetry Prize is considered by the Movement as its main present for deserving and empathetic artists.

The symbolic myth of the movement, is called Unus: an unknown demigod (son of Zeus and of a mortal woman) representing the Total Artist killed, torn to pieces and thrown into the Alento (Campania) river by his brothers, determining the old separation of the Arts.

For the “Prog Music Section”, among many prominent musicians, the Movement has its great Masters in Bernardo Lanzetti, Franco Mussida, Lino Vairetti and Stefano Pantaleoni.