A cycle of photographic works dedicated to the architectural and artistic beauties of Kyiv, where much of the historical and artistic heritage is at risk of survival.
It is 'Florence - Kyiv and back', an exhibition of shots taken by Massimo Listri, curated by Sergio Risaliti, which will be inaugurated tomorrow in the Sala d'Arme of Palazzo Vecchio.
The exhibition, explains the Municipality, also aims to be Florence's homage to the capital of Ukraine, with which it has been twinned since 1967.
The photos on display - twelve of which are displayed as ancient paintings on easels, the others projected on the walls - , despite the ongoing bloody conflict, are not images of war, of destruction of theaters and libraries, of homes and schools, of wounded and dead.
"It is a precise choice that Massimo Listri makes with these photos - comments the mayor Dario Nardella -: images which at a first hasty glance are apparently timeless and spaceless but which, with a more careful and in-depth look, reveal the whole the anguish that has accompanied the Russian invasion of Ukraine for two years. A huge theater with completely empty red velvet seats, hundreds of photos of women and men gathered together in a gloomy collage of the fallen, sacred places eviscerated of every religion, luxurious halls of the parties stopped before the last dance, stocks of bread ready to be distributed, covered works of art, bags of sand seeking shelter from the horror. A war without protagonists and without blood but which can be glimpsed looming from the images of Listri" .
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