Wanda Berasi, aka Muky, died last year. She was born in 1926 and for three decades she stopped to reflect, almost every December, on recent happenings and to summarize them in a nativity scene. The success was international also due to the tragic relevance of what it brought to everyone's attention, sublimating it into an artistic vision. This is how Cambodia. Colours and the Trench was born in 1989, in 1990 Kuwait. My blood bleeds on blood, in 1991 South Morocco. Help me - I scream among the chrysanthemums and, gradually spanning the decades, the very topical Earth's Crust. Pollution / mechanical breath of Jesus from 2000.
All on display at the Bell until the end of the holidays. The most current of all, however, is not on display at the Foundation but at the Chiesetta del Redentore in Rovereto, where the exhibition «Asylum, give seek offer find» curated by Roberto Ronca was inaugurated on 25 November. There, in addition to the nativity scene created in 1998 by Muky entitled Arafat – Netanyahu. Peace negotiations in the Middle East. Truce in the manhunt, you may admire works by 16 other artists until January 7th. Asylum, explains the curator «is a reflection. A way to attract consciences that at this time of year seem to lose the meaning of things in favour of herd behaviour that has nothing to do with the real meaning of the moment. »
Peace negotiations in the Middle East. Truce in the manhunt
