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MARIA KARZI
HUMAN RIGHTS? #MEMENTO DALLA GUERRA ALLA PACE
HUMAN RIGHTS - THE CONCEPT
On 10th December 1948 , the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was proclaimed: for the first time in the history of humanity, a document concerning all the people of the world was drawn up. Everyone of us, only due to the fact that he was born, enjoys the rights endorsed by the Declaration. Everyone of us, regardless of the place where he was born and where he lives, enjoys these rights. Everyone of us has civil, political, social, economical and cultural rights. Everyone of us is equal to the others. Is it always so? In HUMAN RIGHTS? artists speak about human rights. The title, simple and direct, without roundabout expressions, expresses the main idea which must go with everybody’s life. In this event, uncomfortable, complex and denunciation subjects are dealt with, in order to sting the conscience of all those who, enjoying their own rights, don’t think about all people whose rights are violated every day. The logic of HUMAN RIGHTS? is based on the fundamental concept of art as a universal expressive form, understandable by everybody regardless of his language and culture, regardless of his gender, of the subject and of the languages used. Languages vary depending on the artists’ experience and mastery, and they create new relationships with the audience, who approaches art feeling immediately involved and directly concerned. Discomfort images, violated rights images, images about everyday stories which should not exist, but even images which are able to deal with a delicate and difficult subject with wisdom and, why not, irony. The exhibition will highlight different ways to see the matter, since the event is open to artists from all over the world. It becomes so particularly interesting to discover in which way the perception of the concept of “respect of the rights” is experienced and expressed. The event aims to shake consciences: it deeply wants to avoid common places brought by word abuse: to speak about human rights has become so common that the words “human rights violation” are deprived of all meaning and by now they touch us only at a distance when we hear them, without getting them into our heads. The most immediate way to retrieve that conscience, essential to be really part of a system which respects everybody’s rights, is to see with one’s eyes all that artists have to say. Images insert themselves in one’s memory in such an immediate and strong way that all those who visit it will leave it more conscious and emotionally involved. To speak about human rights, according to artists, means to “pull out” many ideas which can’t find the space fit for the purpose in other events. HUMAN RIGHTS? wants to be a strong signal to all the artists and to all those who will visit it.
‘HUMAN RIGHTS?’ is the international art exhibition that has a big success in its four editions. The first edition was held in Real Sito Belvedere di San Leucio a Caserta in 2009. The other editions were held in Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti of Rovereto (Tn) and in 2012 was in a double edition, in Acaya Castle in Lecce in spring and in Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti in autumn. The last one were held in Convento dei Francescani Neri in Specchia (Lecce, Italy) in summer 2013.
‘HUMAN RIGHTS?’ #MEMENTO - is a special edition 2014, inside the context of Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti, in the first World War centenary, to celebrate the peace concept and universal dialogue, so perfectly represented by Maria Dolens, the bell of peace. Artists of whole world will be selected, having in this way several point of view and better understand how other people lives this situation, that is a trouble and also a great resource. During the event will be organized conferences about human rights, peace and social commitment, always managed and promoted by the Foundation. The exhibition will be animated through performances by international artists, action paintings, meetings with artists that will be available to talk about their works. During the evenings will be organized inaugural artistic performances. During the exhibition Spazio-Tempo Arte will organize guided tours for groups of visitors and school groups
PAINTING, SCULPTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEOART, DIGITAL, INTERACTIVE ART, PERFORMANCE
Curated by Roberto Ronca
My artwork for "HUMAN RIGHTS? #MEMENTO DALLA GUERRA ALLA PACE", which takes part in the permanent exhibition of FONDAZIONE OPERA CAMPANA DEI CADUTI DI ROVERETO (Trento - Italia)
The way of peace is liberating, unfolding the film of happy moments of individuals, where nations can cooperate and life is respected. War is a dead-end, a place of loneliness and grief where death devastates human rights and society values.
La via della pace e' liberante, esplicando il film dei felici momenti degli individui, dove le nazioni possono cooperare e la vita e' rispettata. La guerra e' un vicolo cieco, un luogo di solitudine e tristezza dove la morte distrugge i diritti umani ed i valori sociali.ut.
THE FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY - 1914 / 2014
On July 28th, 1914 World War I breaks out. From this very moment, the life of all Europeans and beyond boundaries, remaining indelibly etched in history and in memory as one of the most horrible moments of modern time. The sense of precariousness slowly transforms into a feeling of finality in the souls of all those who are directly or indirectly involved. The Great War leaves its mark on an era and its people. Poets, writers, and artists have felt the need to talk about it, to recount it, and to bear their testimony to all about the things they often experienced directly on the front. The value of human life is annulled, and with it the understanding of existence by all the contemporaries of that period, (many of whom will bear witness to a second conflict in the latter half of the century), as well as those will follow, who in their memories will be laden with the memories of their parents and grandparents, whose suffering, in turn, has become entrenched as part of their existence. The time period known as “the short 20th century” is characterized by wars regarding supremacy and domination in Europe. The aberration of this notion is what spawned the dictatorships and Nazism that so horribly blemish this era in European history. And it is this aberration of the notions of war and death that eventually gives rise to a period of profound reflection regarding the necessity for peace and cooperation among peoples. As it were, war and suffering also provided the impetus for developing the idea of creating the “Maria Dolens”, an evocative name that seems to bear the burden of all the pain and suffering that humanity, in all its frailty, could not withstand. Bells have always served as powerful folk symbols and icons of congregation, (in medieval times bells were rung to summon people to convene). Maria Dolens was forged by melting the bronze of cannons from the nations involved in the Great War – a fortuitous and revolutionary concept that provides a vision that is both completely novel, yet very contemporary. The “Maria Dolens” affirms the fundamental principle that the development of a society does not occur from the submission of one country to another, but through mutual cooperation that aims at enriching the civil, cultural and political lives of all citizens. It is no longer “the empire”, but democracy, the participation of the people, and government by the people via specific laws and a constitution, that guarantee peace between nations and completely exclude wars. The „Maria Dolens” itself serves as a reminder for mankind to never forget its true essence.
THE LOCATION FONDAZIONE OPERA CAMPANA DEI CADUTI DI ROVERETO (Trento - Italia) -Rovereto houses on the hill the great bell of the fallen, Maria Dolens, perceived and desired by the priest of the city don Antonio Rossaro, right after the Great War, as eternal symbol of condemnation of the conflict, pacification of the consciences, of brotherhood among men, solidarity between peoples. made from the bronze of cannons offered by the nations participating in the First World War, played the first toll on 4th October 1925 in the presence of King Vittorio Emanuele III. During these years the bell has made its voice heard playing every night one hundred tolls of admonishment to life and to peace. Statesman, Presidents and Ambassadors with citizens of each nations have honoured the bell and they continue to hear as a voice of own conscience. Eighty-four Nations have exposing their flag around Maria Dolens, first name of the Bell, along the avenue of the Flags and in the Square of the People, to witness, visibly, the fidelity to a message, to a sort a “Peace’s Pact”. 18th Jenuary 1968, by a decree of the President of Republic, Giuseppe Saragat, born as moral entity the Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti. Among the Foundation’s finality, particular attention is given to the education of the new generations, to the peace culture, to the nonviolence and to human rights.
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