A century and a half of history of the City of Peace summarized in one hundred vintage photosenlarged and displayed below arcades of the center historical. The events of Cherasco from the Unification of Italy to the Covid-19 pandemic are brought to life again in the latest exhibition by the popularizer Flavio Russo, the exhibition “The time that is in us” whose inauguration is scheduled Saturday 13 April.
The exhibition condenses in fifty double-sided panels – suspended under the porticoes of the Galli della Mantica palace and the central via Cavour and Vittorio Emanuele II – a selection of material taken from the archive belonging to the author, giving life to a small open-air museum visitable until September 30, 2024.
The result is an excursus that begins in the aftermath of 1870 and the breach of Porta Pia, retraces the epic of the great noble lineages of Cherasco at the end of the 19th century, focuses on the First World War and the advent of Fascism, before moving on to era of the economic boom and arriving at the lockdown of 2020. Crucial and dramatic events told “from below” through life shots that portray the community, its inhabitants, traditions and institutions.
Russo comments: «The time that is in us, an expression used as the title of the exhibition, is a reference to the past that generated us, to the future that contains what we will do and, above all, to the present, to be committed to the prosperity of Cherasco. These dimensions coexist in the exhibition, which summarizes one hundred and fifty years of contemporary history, placing people and popular events at the centre.”
Cherasco, 5 April 2024
