BOlogna, 1 needle. (askanews) – On the occasion of the forty -fifth anniversary of the massacre at the Bologna station, the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna proposes Ababo Human for 2 August 1980, a great exhibition project, created in collaboration with the Railways Group of the Italian State, the association among the family members of the victims of the massacre of the Bologna station of 2 August 1980, the solidarity committee to the victims of the massacres and the Municipality of Bologna. Composed of four distinct artistic interventions, it is set up in the pedestrian crossing of the high -speed underground station in Bologna Centrale, above the tracks from 16 to 19, until 7 August 2025 and accompanied by texts by Milo Romano and Carlo Branzaglia.
On the occasion of the presentation, the director of the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, Enrico Fornaroli, spoke to askanews: “The project we are visiting and a project that actually was born in 2014 thanks to an idea of poster for the City of the graphic design course, but this year has integrated a whole series of other interventions related to illustration, installation, with other courses in collaboration with the State Railway Group. Compare young artists, our students of the courses that participated, in this, not only commemoration, but an important moment of memory and historical reconstruction: because obviously we are talking about young artists who have known only through the story what happened on August 2, 1980 at the Bologna station. Bologna, and then the installation we made by reconstructing one by one from a photographic point of view, the bus that transported the wounded “.
Also present at the guided tour, the vice -president of the association of the victims of the victims of the Bologna station of 2 August 1980, Paolo Lambertini: “We are at the station is a place of memory, an important place: the Bologna station is the place that marked my life, and today there is an emotion fortunately, an emotion of memory, a profound emotion where once again in a lens in support of the various memory, is also present. People. in this case I feel I have to thank the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, I feel I have to thank Rfi and great stations the railway group of the Italian State because they have given rise to an extraordinary initiative for me. Which are all known names.
The association among the family members of the victims of the massacre of the Bologna station of 2 August 1980 brings the story of the attack every year to schools because remembering is a commitment to the future.
It is not the first time that the Academy of Bologna undertakes to commemorate the neo -fascist attack which on 2 August 1980 caused the death of 85 people and the injury of over 200. From 1997 to 2005, Ababo was the promoter of the Public Art Academy project of Station, edited by Milo Romano and Roberto Daolio. From 2014, moreover, a series of posters developed for the Municipality of Bologna from the three -year graphic design course of the Academy have been dedicated to the Bologna massacre, as part of the Poster for the City project, conceived by Danilo Danisi. The first intervention in the underground pedestrian area of the Bologna station is composed of the 12 posters 70 × 100 cm chosen to represent the dramatic event of the Bologna massacre from 2014 to 2025, in addition to the unseleled proposals of this edition.
Twenty portraits for the memory: 2 August 1980 of the three -year period of comics and illustration and two years of languages of the comic, edited by Sara Colaone and Gianluca Costantini, is the second intervention. Four groups of five portraits of the victims of the massacre return dignity and voice and bring stories out of the anonymity of the numbers. It means transforming the memory in a living presence in our society. Each story becomes a step towards a more conscious citizenship and memory becomes an act of justice every day.
A dear friend, of the two -year period of photography by Paola Banto and Tommaso Bonaventura, is the third intervention. On August 2, 1980, bus 37 became a rescue vehicle, but above all a symbol of the union of citizens, who on that tragic day decided not to stay on the margins. The work is a black and white photographic print in 1: 1 scale, of the original bus that returns every 2 August to Piazza Medaglie d’Oro. At the foot of the photographic press the words, taken from an interview, of the man who took the wheel, Agide Melloni, the one who today remembers the 37 as a dear friend today, thanks to having made available to have made available the Busion 4030 that has become for all buses37 are reported.
I want a country, of the three -year period of scenography and the two -year period of scenography of the Teatro dell’Opera and Musical Entertainment by Nicola Bruschi and Marco Cesare Consumi is the fourth intervention held on Saturday 2 August at 4 pm and at 18: four students of the School of Scenography will interpret a sonorous reading by Marco Cesare consumption, taken from the text I want a country written in 2013 by Andreas Flourakis, a contemporary Greco poet and playwright.
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