Catania – On the 76th anniversary of the Liberation, graphics marry civil commitment with the posters of the students of the Academy of Fine Arts posted not only in the city of Etna but also in Syracuse, Ragusa and Noto.
“Cultivating Memory is still today a precious vaccine against indifference”. The sentence of life senator Liliana Segre, Holocaust survivor and witness of the Italian Shoah, can be considered the leitmotif of the traveling exhibition of the Catania Academy of Fine Arts entitled “Designing to resist. Graphics as civil conscience”, edited by Gianni Latino. From a few days until the end of the month, the citizens of Catania, Syracuse, Ragusa and Noto will be able to admire the posters dedicated to April 25, designed by thirty-one students of the two-year course in Visual Communication Design, on the public billposting spaces. “If in mid-March – declared Lina Scalisi, president of the Academy – with ‘Grafica Unita’ we told the 160th anniversary of the unification of Italy in via Etnea, with this new, beautiful exhibition, we measure ourselves against another great narration of our national history. And once again we do it outdoors, in the desire to make art an instrument for a cultural revival of our territories through the great talent of our teachers and our students “.
“Remembering – added Latino, holder of the chair of editorial graphic design of the ABA – is the duty of every woman and man. The values of the Resistance are today those of the Italian Constitution, which have allowed us to be free and to promote the development of Culture and scientific and technical research and to teach it freely in schools, universities and academies “. The authors on display are Valeria Alberio, Rosamaria Alesci, Federica Bistoletti, Alessia Calì, Marika Campanella, Chiara Contarino, Laura Consoli, Michela Cavallaro, Serena Di Mauro, Orazio D’Urso, Valentina Giocondo, Martina Giustolisi, Selene Inzirillo Roberta, Irullo, Anita La Porta, Davide Leonardi, Giulia Lombardi, Margherita Malerba, Federica Mangiò, Francesco Morina, Sara Aurora Napolitano, Giusy Pantò, Dalila Pische, Christian Plurione, Marica Romano, Rossella Santapaola, Rachele Sciacchitano, Giuliana Scudellà, Adrianna Slonecka, Angelo Stimoli and Rachele Turrisi.
The student-authors have embraced the project with great civil conscience, setting an event of seventy-six years ago in contemporary society. “It was born – underlined Latino – as a single, very long, narrative manifesto to cultivate memory to fight indifference, injustice and suffering. A way to make every citizen who sees these artifacts reflect, trying to stir consciences. “.