OMBRE DI GUERRA – Photographic exhibition at Rotonda della Besana, Milan, on until January the 10th 2010
84 colour and black and white pictures
Catalogue by Contrasto
The soldier holding his rifle, traumatised by the bombs in Vietnam in the picture by Don McCullin; Merillon’s wake in Kosovo; the American flag raised in Iwo Jima during World War II; the soldier shot to death portrayed by Robert Capa during the Spanish Civil War; the mass graves in Bosnia in the pictures by Gilles Peress; the war in Lebanon as portrayed by Paolo Pellegrin. These are just a few of the images, real icons of our time, that, one after the other, tell the story of the most recent wars from the one occurred in Spain in 1936 to the one in Lebanon in 2006. Seventy years of the history of the iconography of grief.
Ombre di Guerra shows 84 extraordinary pictures with the purpose of mulling over the meaning of our visual and social tradition and over the folly of the absurd and painful practice of war.
A homonymous book couples the exhibition, set in the context of the Rotonda della Besana in Milan. The show is taken care of by Contrasto and organised by Fondazione Veronesi and the City Hall of Milan on the occasion of the International conference of Science for Peace. The exhibition officially inaugurates the newly born Movement for Peace promoted by Umberto Veronesi together with other 20 Nobel Prize winners, numerous scientists and men of learning renown all over the world.
Here below the pictures of the installation.
