Brescia Museums: Open to Russian dissident artists suffering. Let's build bridges without fueling conflict

Stefano Karadjov, director of the Brescia Musei Foundation since 2019, is ready to give a voice to suffering artists. He toldAdnkronos in a kind of appeal that "Italian culture should offer help at this time to contemporary Russian artists, of whatever art, and as far as possible should try to build for now and for the future collaborative projects with them.“ The intent is therefore ”not to create under any circumstances a homologation between what is happening at the political-governmental level and what is instead the expression of thought," with the exception of"any aligned artist, who takes an active stance against the ongoing violent action and for this must be absolutely condemned."

Fondazione Brescia Musei therefore declares itself open to Russian artists to"build a bridge, with dissident ones, to give them a way to have a voice with us“: that of artists, Karadjov says, is ”a category that does not have its back covered and now they are living even more a condition of marginalization."

In an interview published in Bresciaoggi on March 10, the director explains that Brescia Musei "launched an exchange of international loans of works between Italy and Russia, to ’give a voice to art but also to artists who do not have the opportunity to express themselves freely.’“ ”Culture,“ he continued, ”is a transversal language, it can speak to everyone, it can bring people together who are divided by political systems. We have to work on theidentity of the individual: what matters is inner freedom. That’s what culture, which knows no barriers, is for.“ ”We must look for the artists who are suffering under dictatorships. We are ready to host them,“ he concludes. ”Our task will be to provide a platform for dialogue. We have opened an exchange of art loans between our Art Gallery and St. Petersburg. This is how we build bridges without fueling conflicts."

Brescia Museums: Open to Russian dissident artists suffering. Let's build bridges without fueling conflict

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