On the Day of Remembrance which commemorates the victims of the Holocaust, on 27 January at the Museum Monument to the Political and Racial Deportees, on the first floor of Palazzo dei Pio in Carpi (Modena) an exhibition will be inaugurated which presents authors, from Picasso to Carrà, from Manzù to Vedova, from Guttuso to Cagli, who with their works "have chosen to awaken human consciences in the face of the reckless madness of the extermination camps".
The initiative aims to bring to collective attention the history of racial segregation in Italy, of which Carpi has witnessed: a few kilometers from the city centre, in the locality of Fossoli, stood the concentration camp for Jews, wanted by the Italian Social Republic, subsequently transformed into a police and transit camp, used by the SS as an antechamber to the Nazi concentration camps.
The exhibition - 'The noise of memory.
Art and civil commitment for the 50 years of the Museo al Deportato' - set up until 1 May, it opens with the original sketches of artists including Renato Guttuso and Corrado Cagli who, through signs and graffiti on the walls, have lent their work in the establishment of the Museum of Deportees, conceived in the 1960s on the initiative of the municipal administration.
We add works by Pablo Picasso and other painters and sculptors such as Mirko Basaldella, Giacomo Manzù, Emilio Vedova who, during the Second World War or in the years following its end, felt the strong call of 'being there' as a civil choice.
A second section will be dedicated to the drawings of Aldo Carpi, owned by the Carpi Museums, created largely during his imprisonment in Mauthausen and Gusen.
In this graphic corpus of 150 pieces Aldo Carpi describes a slow and relentless descent into hell, from which he manages to survive thanks to his artistic talent, soon recognized by the high Nazi hierarchy.
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