There Foundation Jorio Vivarelli and the Filippo Turati Foundation invite to a appointment in memory of Giacomo Matteotti on the centenary of his death scheduled for Friday 31 May at 5.30pm at Villa Stonorov (via di Felceti – Pistoia). The event, organized with the patronage of the Municipality of Pistoiasees the Honorable speaker intervene Riccardo Nenciniwho for the occasion presents his book dedicated to the figure of Matteotti, entitled “I die for you” and just published by Mondadori. Subsequently Roberto Agnoletti illustrates the characteristics of the bronze monument which, on the fiftieth anniversary of the crime, was commissioned from the Pistoia artist Jorio Vivarelli and placed in Rome on the Arnaldo da Brescia Tiber, right near the place where the socialist deputy was kidnapped and murdered by a fascist squad on 10 June 1924.
«Historical memory», this is the name of the work, measures 16 meters in height by 4.30 meters in width. It horizontally portrays a destroyed, tangled and spilled material, similar to a tree root, which in the sculptor’s words means «maceration and physical destruction, understood in a human sense», together with a vertical element that rises from that surface and that «more than a stele it is a gem that signifies the ideal ascending towards space, through a lively, pure, lyrical form, a symbol of clarity and hope and also a warning to humanity».
So in 1974 Vivarelli he told of the imposing installation, which was entrusted to him by the National Committee for Honors created on the initiative of the Social Democratic Party. The Pistoian parliamentarian Antonio Cariglia, president of the PSDI group in the Chamber in those years (as well as founder of the Turati Foundation), was the intermediary for the creation of the monument in Pistoia.
The artist created the work inspired by the phrase, attributed to Matteotti, «Kill me too, but you will never kill the idea that is in me.”, designing and modeling it right in his home studio in Felceti, on the hills above Pistoia, now home to the foundation named after him. Weighing approximately 80 quintals, it was melted at the Michelucci foundries and from there transported to Rome. In recent months, precisely in view of the centenary, the Capitoline administration has contacted the Vivarelli Foundation to acquire the original documentation of the monument in order to proceed with the complete restoration of the work.
Source: Press Office
