Italy celebrates today Liberation Day, the end of the Italian Civil War and the end of the Nazi occupation of the country.
There is actually an independent museum that chose to celebrate freedom and human rights with a special exhibition.
The CAM_Casoria Contemporary Art Museum launched a few days ago "You No Speak Americano Original", an exhibition curated by the museum director Antonio Manfredi and featuring 100 artists from all over the world.
The Casoria Contemporary Art Museum was founded in 2005 and it was conceived as an experimental laboratory of ideas and a cultural reference point. Throughout the years the museum has become a safe haven for worldwide artists and has assembled a strong collection of multimedia works (it currently boasts the most complete collection of contemporary Neapolitan artists from the second post-war period till today).
The call for "You No Speak Americano Original" was open to artists of any nationality, race, religion, age and sexual orientation.
Each artist contributed with a 70 x 100 cm poster showing a work of art (paintings, drawings, illustrations, photographs and so on) featuring a slogan or a message in favour of integration and multiculturalism and opposing discrimination, intolerance and racism.
The event hopes indeed to use the language of art to destroy walls and build bridges rather than raising barriers.
The official poster of the event, a sort of call to arts rather than a call to arms, is represented by an image of a clownish Donald Trump as Uncle Sam. Irenebrination took part in the event together with Kutmusic (for the occasion we dubbed our team The Problem Children), coming up with the photographic food project "Inclusion is Our Daily Bread and Butter". The event is open until 28th April and you can check out all the artists and posters at this link.
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