Bologna
Bologna's Holocaust Memorial, conceived by the joint commitment of the Jewish Community, institutions and private citizens, is aimed as much at the past as at the future. Two 10-metre steel blocks face each other at the corner between Via dei Carracci and the bridge of Via Matteotti converging one toward the other until delimiting a fissure enough wide to pass a person. On the sides, empty orbits overhang the path, repeating themselves obsessively in all directions. They represent the cells of the deportees; the void left by those who occupied them. But there is another side of the Memorial: a smooth facade where the perimeter of the cells can be guessed only through slight projections - specifically thought to reflect sounds, lights and images. The monument, in effect, is designed as a magnet: it wants to attract people, make them reflect, discuss, think about what happened in the history: « The intuition, suggested by the Municipality, to build it at the railway station of Bologna - where happened the bombing of 2 August 1980 - is the synthesis of its nature: the memory». Project: SET Architects (Lorenzo Catena, Chiara Cucina, Onorato di Manno, Andrea Tanci)
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Bologna Holocaust Memorial
Nuova Piazza - Ponte Matteotti, angolo Via Carracci
Site/minisite/other: http://www.facebook.com/Bologna-Shoah-Memorial-644721958988053/
Interests
- Art & Culture
