A large art project, which also contains an extraordinary solidarity operation, is being planned at the Complesso del Vittoriano in Rome, from the 22 November 2013 to the 31 January 2014, after a journey that began in Reggio Emilia and continued in the prestigious Palazzo Ducale in Modena, headquarters of the Military Academy.
This is the exhibition NINETY ARTISTS FOR A FLAG, under the High Patronage of the President of the Republic, promoted by the CuraRE Onlus Association chaired by Deanna Ferretti Veroni and by Panathlon Modena, in collaboration with the General Staff of Defense and the Municipality of Reggio Emilia , with the patronage of the Lazio Region, the Province of Rome, the Municipality of Rome. Main sponsor Unicredit. Sponsor CCPL, Helio BT srl.
The initiative, in addition to presenting the works of ninety Italian and international contemporary artists who have discussed the theme of the Italian flag, encompasses a very valuable objective: to build a hospital for women and children in Reggio Emilia.
The new building, located inside the Santa Maria Nuova Hospital, will have as its objective the protection of the health of women, pregnant women, couples, newborns and children and will be characterized as a welcoming and familiar place, equipped with the most modern technologies and skills, associated with characteristics that allow for the best methods of care. The 12.500 square meters, distributed in floors, will host the structures of Pediatrics, Gynecology, Obstetrics, Medically Assisted Procreation, Neonatology, Operating Block, Child Neuropsychiatry.
The 90 artists involved have not generically donated their work for the benefit of the initiative, but have undertaken to create one starting from a particular flag, chosen among those, donated by the Municipality of Reggio Emilia, which in 2011 were exhibited in the city of the Tricolore on the occasion of the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy.
These are the flags linked to the emergence of the idea of Italian unity: the tricolor adopted on January 7, 1797 in Reggio Emilia, those of the Jacobin and Napoleonic ages, the flags of popular uprisings and insurrections during the Risorgimento, those of the pre-unification states, the flags of the Unification and of the Kingdom of Italy, the various versions of the flag adopted by the Republic, ending with those used, even recently, for objectives of great social and ethical value.
The flags "adopted" by the artists are those that were displayed for a year in the streets of the Emilian city as part of the exhibition "The streets of the Flag", inaugurated by the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano on 7 January 2011 as part of the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy and carried out by the Municipality of Reggio Emilia in collaboration with the Technical Unit of the Mission for the Celebrations of the 150th Anniversary of National Unity, the Institute of the Italian Encyclopaedia and the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
There were various ways of creating the works: some artists intervened on the flag itself or on a part of it; others have used fragments of them to insert them, through collage, in their works; still others have created a completely autonomous one: the flag assigned to them has become a direct source of inspiration for the references of colors, writings and drawn shapes.
The entire project, from the involvement of the artists to the realization of the exhibition and the accompanying catalogue, was curated by Sandro Parmiggiani, critic and art historian.
Subsequently, the works will be sold to raise funds for the construction of the future hospital, with the aim, however, of preserving the integrity of the exhibition and making it a sort of permanent collection.
The Corsiero editore catalog presents all the works created by the individual artists, their biographical profiles and the flags, already exhibited for the 150th anniversary, with the relative historical descriptions.
We thank Cremonini Group, Lenzi Paolo Broker Srl for their collaboration.
List of artists:
Luca Alinari, Pat Andrea, Alberto Andreis, Assadour, Roberto Barni, Davide Benati, Gabriella Benedini, Domenico Bianchi, Alfonso Borghi, Danilo Bucchi, Enzo Cacciola, Giovanni Campus, Eugenio Carmi, Tommaso Cascella, Roberto Casiraghi, Bruno Ceccobelli, Bruno Chersicla, Andrea Chiesi, Pier Giorgio Colombara, Angelo Davoli, Sandro De Alexandris, Giuliano Della Casa, Enrico Della Torre, Lucio Del Pezzo, Fausto De Nisco, Marco Ferri, Ennio Finzi, Giosetta Fioroni, Laura Fiume, Attilio Forgioli, Antonio Freiles, Omar Galliani , Alessandro Gamba, Marco Gastini, Giorgio Griffa, Marco Grimaldi, Franco Guerzoni, Paolo Iacchetti, Marino Iotti, Emilio Isgrò, Riccardo Licata, Claudia Losi, Luigi Mainolfi, Elio Marchegiani, Mirco Marchelli, Umberto Mariani, Antonio Marras, Carlo Mastronardi, Iler Melioli, Giovanni Menada, Nino Migliori, Elisa Montessori, Pietro Mussini, Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Carlo Nangeroni, Giulia Napoleone, Gianfranco Notargiacomo, Nunzio, Claudio Olivieri, Tullio Pericoli, Lucia Pescador, Oscar Piattella, Pino Pinelli, Graziano Pompili, Concetto Pozzati, Mario Raciti, Bruno Raspanti, Jacopo Ricciardi, Leonardo Rosa, Ruggero Savinio, Antonio Seguí, Giovanni Sesia, Medhat Shafik, Tetsuro Shimizu, Aldo Spoldi, Mauro Staccioli, Tino Stefanoni, Guido Strazza, Ilario Tamassia, Nani Tedeschi, Wainer Vaccari, Valentino Vago, Walter Valentini, Paolo Valle, Wal, William Xerra, Gianfranco Zappettini.
Rome, Vittoriano complex
Shrine of the Flags (side entrance of the right complex Piazza D'Aracoeli)
22 November 2013 - 31 January 2014
Hours: every day, 9.30 – 15.00. Monday closed
Free admission
