MUSEO DELLA RESISTENZA – Prinp Editoria d'Arte

Gunter Demnig LE PIETRE D’INCIAMPO

Dario — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 14:54:56 +0000

The “Pietre d’Inciampo” (stumbling blocks) are a widespread and participated monument of the German artist Gunter Demnig for Europe. To remember the victims of Nazi fascism, the artist produces small brass plaques placed on stone cubes that are set into the pavement in front of the last home freely chosen by the victim. The Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin, after having accepted the candidacy by the Museo Diffuso della Resistenza della Deportazione, della Guerra, dei Diritti e della Libertà of Turin, conferred the title of “Academician of Honor” on Gunter Demnig on 12th January 2022. This volume contains the acts, speeches and essays produced on the occasion of the ceremony and as a reflection on the artistic project.

Eleonora Roaro SCENOGRAFIE COLONIALI – FIAT 633NM

Dario — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 17:04:05 +0000

The book documents the exhibition “Colonial Scenography. FIAT 633NM” by Eleonora Roaro housed in the spaces of the Diffused Museum of Resistance, Deportation, War, Rights and Freedom in Turin, which stages a reflection on the colonial imaginary, which the artist starts from an exercise in micro-history, using parts of his own family archive to bring out the negated, falsified and repressed aspects of the Italian colonial adventure. The audio-video installation, which welcomes the visitor at the end of a historical-critical path on the colonial experience in Italian East Africa, is an exercise in colonization of our imagination and is the result of a double research, intellectual and artistic, which aims to produce an effect of disorientation capable of questioning the repressed elements of our history, problematizing the figure of the male colonizer, white and European and the biographical link that connects him to the artist in relation to a geography that becomes landscape and “scenography” of the colonial adventure.

Silvia Margaria ANTHOLOGIA

Dario — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 16:50:29 +0000

The book illustrates the attempt to give shape in an iconic, poetic and allusive way to the biographical, existential, political and cultural dimension of five illustrious women: Adelaide Aglietta, Isa Bluette, Amalia Guglielminetti, Giorgina Levi, Emilia Mariani. Five exemplary female figures of the twentieth century, who fought for rights and emancipation. Using the languages of art and contemporaneity, Silvia Margaria carries out an exercise in public history, aimed at learning about the existential, political and human biography of five exemplary Turin figures for the struggle for women’s emancipation and the conquest of human rights. The 34 photos that make up the project are the result of a selection from the hundreds that Silvia Margaria shoots in 2015, after having chosen to investigate the female question from a very particular point of view: she analyzes the life of the flowers placed on the graves of the five buried women at the Monumental Cemetery of Turin. The urgency of the artist, in which personal emotions and the almost daily documentary action intersect, is to return the research on the struggle for emancipation through an artistic path that crosses the need to remember and the inevitable realization. of oblivion with the passage of time.

Claudia Virginia Vitari IDENTITÁ INTERSTIZIALI

Dario — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 13:07:03 +0000

The volume documents the personal exhibition of the artist Claudia Virginia Vitari at the Widespread Museum of Resistance, Deportation, War, Rights and Freedom in Turin. Since 2014 the artist has been dealing with migration, refugees and asylum seekers. The installation on display combines two themes of his most recent project: “Interstitial Identities”. Claudia Virginia Vitari has always focused her work on long research and collaboration projects on social issues such as crime and detention, subjects diagnosed with mental illness and refugees and asylum seekers. The large installations created are accompanied by drawings and serigraphs that illustrate in detail some of the stories that make up the artistic project. The Interstitial Identity work proposes a comparison between two distinct but related “interstitial experiences”: protest and waiting. The “Interstitial Identities” project by Claudia Virginia Vitari represents the most recent stage of an artistic and theoretical research, now ten years old, focused on the relationship between identity and cultural otherness, narratives of inclusion / exclusion, total institutions, discipline of bodies and production of humanity and inhumanity. The artist has always focused his attention on social issues that have to do with “marginality”, discomfort and the forms of normalization and discipline carried out by the institutions, giving life to long research and experimentation projects on materials and languages in the name of a broad relational and participatory approach. These are assumptions that have pushed it over time to relate to subjects with psychiatric diagnoses, prisoners, refugees and asylum seekers. (from the critical essay by Roberto Mastroianni)