Muri di Piombo
(Lead Walls)
2005-07
Photographs and articles selected from the Italian newspapers (1975-1982)
44×44cm / 20×44cm
Exhibitions:
Villa Olmo, Como, Italy, 2015 / Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy, 2012 / Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2011 / Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy, 2009 / Palazzo Rebaudengo, Guarene, Italy, 2009 / MAMbo, Modern Museum of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, 2008 / UniCredit Project Room, Milano, Italy, 2008 / Museo Diffuso e della Resistenza, Torino, Italy, 2008 / Museum Auf Abruf, Wien, Austria, 2007 / Museo Bilotti, Roma, Italy, 2007 / House of Photography, Moskva, Russia, 2007 / Maison de la Photographie, Paris, France, 2006 / Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany, 2006 / Museum of Rome in Trastevere, Roma, 2006 / SiFest, Savignano sul Rubicone, Italy, 2005 / Albertina Academy of Fine Arts, Torino, Italy, 2005
Museum collections:
MuseumCastello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy / UniCredit & Art Collection – Modern Museum of Bologna, Bologna, Italy / Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation – Torino, Italy
Muri di Piombo (Lead Walls) proposes an analysis of national and historical identity, through a series of 50 texts and 50 photographs taken at scenes of the terrorist attacks of the “Anni di Piombo” (the period of left-wing terrorism in Italy from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s). The piece recounts this often ignored, or forgotten chapter in Italian history: each photograph is taken at the same time and on the same day that the original terrorist attack took place on.
