Dani Karavan, Man walking on railways

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Dani Karavan, Man walking on railways
Zakhor/Remember
18/01 - 12/02/2023
Museo di Roma

Video as part of the Zakhor/Ricorda project.

Done by the artist during the installation created for Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Dusseldorf (8 July – 27 August 1989), the video is a montage of sequences in which the image of a man appears as he walks down the tracks until disappearing in the distance. Complete with cross ties and ballast, the tracks end at a wall where the number of the last prisoner freed at Auschwitz appears. Karavan seems to urge us to follow the man, as an act of participation in and belonging to a painful, collective memory relived in the present – a memory that is transformed into projection and image in space, evoking a social and political context that generated what is gone. In this sense, remembrance vouchsafes a future that has no intention of forgetting.

Dani Karavan (Tel Aviv, 1930-2021). An Israeli sculptor, he always nourished a strong bond with the land, making primary, minimal structures that were welcomed into the landscape, becoming one with it. With such monumental memorials as Passages - Omaggio a Walter Benjamin (Portbou, 1990-1994); The Way of Human RightsLa via dei Diritti Umani (Nuremberg, 1993); The Sinti & Roma Memorial (Berlin, 1999-2012), Karavan’s works show a link with the history of the places, perpetuating the memory of people – and peoples – who suffered violence and discrimination.

In 1976, Karavan represented Israel at the Venice Biennale with an installation titled Ambiente per la Pace. The following year, he was invited to take part in Documenta 6 in Kassel. The artist garnered such prestigious honours as the Israel Prize (1977) and Praemium Imperiale – Nobel Prize for the arts (1998). In 2018, MEIS – Museo dell’Ebraismo Italiano e della Shoah dedicated a major exhibition to him, Il giardino che non c’è, inspired by Giorgio Bassani’s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis.

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Place
Museo di Roma
Opening hours

January 18 to February 12, 2023
Tuesday through Sunday from 10 to 19
Last admission one hour before closing

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Free for MIC card holders

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060608 (tutti i giorni 9.00 - 19.00)

Promotori
Roma Culture, Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali, Ambasciata di Israele in Italia , Comunità Ebraica di Roma
In collaborazione con la Fondazione Italia–Israele per la Cultura e le Arti

Sponsor tecnico
Easylight

Type
Mostra
Closed
Lun
Curator
Giorgia Calò
20230118
1012226
Zakhor/Ricorda
The Civic Museums of Rome and memory through art
Musei in Comune
18/01 - 12/02/2023
Exhibition|Contemporary art

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