Three meetings at the Omero Museum on Picasso and Guernica to educate for peace

The Omero State Tactile Museum in Ancona is hosting the series of meetings Educating for Peace with Art - Picasso and Guernica, an initiative that interweaves historical reflection, artistic analysis and civic insight on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. The project is promoted by AICVAS, Associazione Italiana Combattenti Volontari Antifascisti di Spagna, with the aim of proposing a critical reading of one of the most relevant conflicts of the 20th century and its repercussions on a cultural and political level.

The initiative is divided into three public events, hosted in the spaces of the Omero Museum, and is part of a framework of institutional collaborations. Indeed, the cycle involves the Municipality of Ancona, the Institutes of History of Ancona, Macerata and Pesaro-Urbino, the trade unions CGIL, CISL and UIL Marche, the State Archives of Ancona, the Instituto Cervantes of Rome and the Cultural Office of the Republic of Spain in Italy. The project, born with an original destination aimed at the scholastic world, is extended to citizenship, with the intention of opening a space for discussion on issues related to historical memory, the representation of conflict and the role of art in the construction of a collective consciousness.

The first appointment is set for Saturday, May 9 at 5:15 p.m. and is entitled Guernica. The Massacre of the Innocents: iconographic analysis and stylistic synthesis in Picasso. The lecture is by Loretta Secchi, art historian and curator of the Anteros Tactile Museum in Bologna. The session will include institutional greetings by Aldo Grassini, president of the Museo Omero, and Marta Paraventi, councillor for Culture of the City of Ancona. The introduction is by Giordano Vecchietti, representing AICVAS Marche. The meeting focuses on the work Guernica, with particular attention to the iconographic aspects and stylistic choices adopted by Pablo Picasso in depicting the bombing of the city during the Spanish Civil War.

The second event takes place on Saturday, May 23 at 4:30 p.m. and addresses the theme Culture and the Spanish Civil War. Intellectuals in the conflict and the reactions of the world of culture. The keynote speaker is Giovanni Darconza, professor at the University of Urbino. The day includes performative moments with the performance of songs related to the Spanish Civil War and readings of poetic texts by Pablo Neruda and Federico García Lorca, with the aim of restoring the cultural and symbolic dimension of the conflict through different artistic languages. Greetings are scheduled from Ignacio Peyró Jiménez, director of the Instituto Cervantes in Rome. The introduction is by ItaloPoma, national president of AICVAS, while coordination is by MarinaMaurizi of Vista Mare.

The third meeting is scheduled for Saturday, May 30 at 4:30 p.m. and will feature the presentation of the volume Ho sempre detto noi. Lucía Sánchez Saornil, Feminist and Anarchist in Civil War Spain by Michela Cimbalo. The discussion with the author is led by Tamara Ferretti, ANPI national secretary. The introduction is again by Giordano Vecchietti for AICVAS Marche. The appointment is accompanied by a musical intervention by Comunanza Canora, which contributes an additional level of interpretation of the historical context treated.

Three meetings at the Omero Museum on Picasso and Guernica to educate for peace

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