(ANSA) - NAPLES, NOV 22 - Faces and stories 'live' from the tragedy of the earthquake that struck Campania and Basilicata on November 23, 1980: scheduled last year for the fortieth anniversary (later postponed due to a pandemic) The MANN and memory series has opened at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples the exhibition 19:34. Photographs by Antonietta De Lillo (until 2 May 2022) with the support of the Campania Region. Over one hundred unpublished black and white photos, from the marechiarofilm archive, created by Antonietta De Lillo, then a young photojournalist destined to demonstrate her narrative skills in her thirty-year career as a film author. '' Transmitting the living memory of what happened 41 years ago is even more significant today.Together with the memory of the tragedy we want to indicate to the younger generations also and above all the strength and feelings of solidarity and the desire for rebirth that the images of this exciting exhibition convey '' said the director of the Mann Paolo Giulierini. Departed from Naples to the municipalities of Irpinia reduced to rubble, the photos tell of first aid, research groups, and then in the following days the camps, caravans and prefabricated buildings, the work of volunteers who come from all over Italy, the arrival of snow until thaw, on the threshold of a fragile but courageous recovery. A sound carpet, taken from the Rai Teche archive, with the voices of the news and radio news of the time is broadcast in all the cinemas. ''I am happy and honored that these photographs of mine are exhibited at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples in a dialogue between antiquity, a more recent past and our present '' writes De Lillo in the catalog. In the staging of the exhibition sponsored by the Order of Journalists of Campania, the photos are commented on by phrases taken from the newspapers of the time and from television reports. In a video, the contribution of the archaeologist Antonio De Simone on the theme of the damage suffered by the museum in 1980.In a video, the contribution of the archaeologist Antonio De Simone on the theme of the damage suffered by the museum in 1980.In a video, the contribution of the archaeologist Antonio De Simone on the theme of the damage suffered by the museum in 1980.
The path ends with the illustration of the recent anti-seismic studies conducted by MANN with the Federico II University Department of Structures for Engineering and Architecture (DiSt) directed by prof.
Andrea Prota.
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