Saturday 25 May 2024 at 3.30 pm the Little Library of Calvairate-Molise-Ponti Committee in via degli Etruschi 1, in Milan, hosts the presentation of the latest book by Gianni Biondillo by title What we are not: choral story of men and women who, at the time of fascism, became aware of the collapse of false ideologies and who decided to take sides in the name of the Resistance and freedom, often paying the consequences.
There was one generation of architects who believed in fascism because they deluded themselves into thinking it was a revolution, like the artistic one they advocated: the rationalism. They fought a war with unequal weapons against academicism, centralist and Roman, without realizing that while Mussolini tamed them, praised them, in reality he supported a rhetorical architecture much more suited to his megalomanias.
Milan was the hotbed of these artistic tensions that looked to Europe as a liberation from the suffocating provincial pastism of the rest of the nation. They came from all over Italy: Istrian irredentists like They paymasters from Como such as Terragnirestless Neapolitans like Perch. And then all the others, children of the Polytechnic: Figini, Pollini, Bottoni, Banfi, Belgiojoso, Peressutti, Rogers. In the trattorias, in the salons, at the paint shops, they met poets, gallery owners, critics, artists, and from year to year their adherence to the regime became more and more labile, more and more critical. History took care of doing the rest: from the racial laws to the defeat of Russia, up to the cataclysm of 8 September 1943.
ThereEntrance is free until seats last. There is a dialogue with Gianni Biondillo Daniela Pizzagalli.
