VICENZA – History, narrative, figurative arts, not to mention historical artefacts, films, collections and testimonies on biographies of many Black feathers lived in Berica land. In short, there is an entire universe of knowledge and memories around the 95th national meeting, which will make Vicenza and its surroundings an evocative expressive stage ready to come to life in many places of art and culture. It is significant that one of the main cultural events ofGathering be dedicated to “Women in the Italian wars”. The exhibition, curated by Bruno Mioni and set up until May 19th at the Cloister of San Lorenzo, reviews, in the multiplicity of images and documents, female figures such as the Red Cross nurses, the workers up to the couriers, describing their role, anything but of secondary importance in the unfolding of war events. The century and a half of history of the Alpine Corps flows through the images, artefacts and documents that give life to the event “Alpine values in the 152 years since its constitution”. Gianni Perizi’s exhibition work, open to the public until May 15th at Palazzo Thiene, summarizes, through the different representative techniques, the figure and ideals of the Alpino, also through the heroic portraits of numerous famous figures of the Corps. Magical realism, made famous in Italy by artists such as Antonio Donghi and Felice Casorati, finds original expression, in the same venue, in the works of Ubaldo Oppi, an Alpini lieutenant in the Monte Berico Battalion during the Great War. Also at Palazzo Thiene, the National Historical Museum of the Alpini has set up a roll up of the symbolic places of the Alpine epic during the First World War.
An evocative display is also set up in the Palace photographic exhibition dedicated to the Battle of Ortigara, consigned to memory as the most terrible proof of the military value of the Black Feathers. Vicenza, obviously, could not fail to be placed alongside the many moments of Alpine history. The exhibition “Gli Alpini e Vicenza”, on display at the Stamperia d’Arte Busato until 19 May, tells, through the eclectic talents of the Alpine painter and designer Galliano Rosset, the close spiritual union between the Black Feathers and the Berico capital, which has become , in the aftermath of the Strafex expedition of 1916 in the Asiago plateau, a painful refuge for survivors of the war disaster. The story, with its dramatic implications, thus becomes the topic of the exhibition “The Refugee in the Vicenza area” curated by Tiziano Zigiotto and hosted until May 19th at the Oratorio dei Proti. The painful pages of Giulio Bedeschi in his “One Hundred Thousand Ice Cubes” they can be “reread” in the images of the Russian Retreat displayed at the Bertoliana Library in Palazzo Cordellina. The exhibition is echoed by the exhibition dedicated to the “War among the Ortles ice” curated by Giuseppe Magrin in the Cloister of Santa Corona. The reference to Mario Rigoni Stern is inevitable, through the exhibition “Between wars and the Plateau” presented at the International Library “La Vigna di Porta S. Croce”.
The Alpine epic it is also what is told by images and illustrationslike those made famous in the pages of Corriere Sunday by the creativity of Achille Beltrame from Arzignano. They will be counterpointed by the images of Alpine military life in the 70s and 80s in the “widespread” exhibition of the centre’s shops. The international prestige of the Corps finds significant content in another roll-up exhibition set up at the Alpini Citadel in Campo Marzio, while at the Museum of the Risorgimento and the Resistance there are two exhibitions dedicated respectively to Maurizio Lazzaro de Castiglioni, an Alpine officer welcomed in the Garden of the Righteous and to the San Marino volunteer Giuliano Gozi. For fans of Alpine techniques in the more strictly warlike field, here is athe Sanctuary of Monte Berico, the exhibitions dedicated to the mission UN of the Black Feathers and the exploits of the 4th Alpine Parachute Ranger Regiment. The expressive universe of the Alpine world also finds expression in the province and precisely at the Museum of the Armed Forces of Montecchio with the exhibition “Between pens and brushes” by Stefano Guderzo. Arzignano dedicates a space to his fellow citizen Achille Beltrame, and to the depictions of him in the magazine pages. Also not to be missed is the exhibition dedicated to the “Alpini in Quinto in the Great War” hosted at Villa Thiene in Quinto Vicentino and the exhibition “Iron, fire and blood” set up in Forte Maso at Pian delle Fugazze, with images depicting the war artefacts found in the surrounding mountains.
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