23.01.2025 \\
As part of the public program of the exhibition Bauen und Töten and the renewed collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, on Thursday, January 23, 2025 Fondazione Morra Greco hosted the presentation of the new book by Viviana Gravano – a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts engaged in militant research – entitled Di-scordare. Artistic Research on the Legacy of Fascism in Italy published by DeriveApprodi.
Presented in conversation with Giulia Grechi, professor of Cultural Anthropology and Anthropology of Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, the volume focuses on how de-fascistization has been an imperfect process, mainly ineffective on a cultural level. Fascism and Mussolini himself were able to use culture as an extraordinary tool of consensus and some of the legacies left behind by the dictatorship are sadly still present in the spaces we inhabit daily.
Di-scordare addresses the process of removal and revisionism implicit in artistic disciplines, suggesting a careful analysis and research of the works of artists that since the 1980s have taken it upon themselves to reread those traces and decode those meanings in order to conduct an open, political, conceptual critique of them.
For the students of the Academy of Fine Arts it should be noted that this event was part of the calendar of activities curated by Professor Grechi and valid for the recognition of training credits (ECTs). The participation to three presentations – please refer to the calendar – will qualify for the recognition of one ECT. Signatures of attendees were collected at the event.