Varese – Five gigantic images by the German director and photographer Wim Wenders are back on display at Villa Panza. Until May 12th, in the spaces of the small Scuderia of the building, it will be possible to admire the cycle of shots taken by the artist in the aftermath of September 11th 2001, which portray Ground Zero with the rubble still smoking.
A prayer in images, a warning against the violence of terrorism and the suggestive, powerful vision of a collective drama, which today as then, unfortunately, interests and involves everyone.
The work was donated by the director and his wife Donata Wenders to the FAI in 2015following his exhibition at Villa Panza, entitled “Wim Wenders. AMERICA” dedicated to representing his vision, as a European artist fascinated by America. Just like Giuseppe Panza di Biumo, who from the end of the 1950s, visiting America, was fascinated by that land of immense spaces, of nature and light, of colors and contrasts, which young artists then unknown, now masters, were expressing himself in new forms of art: with far-sighted intuition and profound sensitivity he bought the works, starting his exceptional collection, known throughout the world, widespread in the largest international museums, but fully represented in his home, on Colle di Biumo , in Varese.
Wenders’ images are an exceptional historical testimony, because the artist, posing as assistant to the only photographer commissioned by the City of New York, was the only one who was able to take other images of the otherwise off-limits area so few days after the tragedy.
It is a highly suggestive artistic vision, which broadens the gaze without losing the crude detail and undermines the perception of those ruins, immortalizing even their charm: the power of the light that penetrates the rubble and leads to hope for the future, for the humanity.
