Bergiola Far Art is a festival born from the shared vision of various local communities: Amlrumdame art collective, Pro Loco Bergiola Foscalina and Gruppo Giovane Bergiola, that came together to imagine and build with the support of the City of Carrara and the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio.
The piece depicts a burning building: a school where, in September 1944, several people lost their lives at the hands of Nazi-Fascists forces during War World II. The flames of cruelty set by the soldiers are transformed, rising upwards, into enormous red poppies standing out against the starry night.
The school represents an open wound; the flowers, spontaneous and rebellious, become an emblem of Resistance and represent a living memory teaching civic awareness to our future generations. The night sky invites us to keep the light of reason and our conscious memories alive, to learn from the past in order to build a more equitable and peaceful world, with everyone contributing in their own way to help the community thrive.
Video © NoiTv ReteVersilia
In this projects for Bergiola Far Art, art becomes the custodian of memories.The mural transforms into poetic visions the testimonies of the survivors of the massacre, symbolizing renewal through the flowers born from flames, so that the past may never become present again.