At Night I Painted Red Pictures: A Jewish art exhibition is coming to Trani.

The SECA Foundation, founding body of the Typewriter Museum based at the Trani Palazzo Lodispoto Museum Center, in collaboration with the Institute of Concentrationary Musical Literature Foundation (ILMC) of Barletta, sets up 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨 𝐥'𝐞𝐱 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐠𝐚 𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐚 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞-𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐨 𝐝𝐢 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐚 The exhibition "𝐋𝐚 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐯𝐨 𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐝𝐫𝐢 𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢", with 23 works of Jewish art dating back to the period preceding the Second World War, to the years of the conflict and to those immediately following. 𝐋𝐚 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚 𝐠𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐬𝐨 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐥'𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐚̀ 𝐄𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐞 (𝐔𝐂𝐄𝐈).

The Exhibition, scheduled from July 18 to September 12, 2024, presents 𝐮𝐧𝐚 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐳𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐝𝐢 𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐝𝐫𝐢 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐢 𝐝𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐚 𝐯𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐳𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐢 acquired by the ILMC Foundation, an organization which, thanks to the work carried out over the last 35 years by Francesco Lotoro in the safeguarding and promotion of music written in Ghettos, Lagers and Gulags from 1933 to 1953, has given life to an Archive and a Library today protected and bound by the Ministry of Culture.

The Pesaro-born poet and writer 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐢 has donated an extraordinary collection to the ILMC Foundation, which will find its permanent home in the Museum of the future Citadel of Concentrationary Music, which will be built on the site of the former Barletta Distillery. Malini has dedicated his life to recovering these works, saving them from dispersion and oblivion, a commitment that earned him the prestigious 2018 Pasquale Rotondi-Mecenatismo Award. To save the works of artists who experienced the tragedy of the Holocaust, for many years he has acted as a tireless researcher of paintings and drawings created before, during, and after the anti-Semitic persecutions of the twentieth century, some of enormous artistic value and all deeply moving; as Malini himself states, his collection “was conceived as a point of reference for a community place, a symbol of the civil and cultural growth of that place and an educational destination for scholastic institutions”.

The title of the Exhibition refers both to the "red paintings" by the Polish Jewish artist Jacob Vassover (1926–2008) and to the title of the autobiographical novel Night by the Romanian Jewish writer Elie Wiesel (Nobel Peace Prize 1986), who was deported with his family to Auschwitz and Buchenwald as a youth. The title of the Exhibition is intended to ideally evoke an emotional balance between these two extraordinary protagonists of 20th-century history, art, and literature.

𝐋𝐚 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚 𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐚̀ 𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝𝐢̀ 18 𝐥𝐮𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐨 18.00 𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚̀ 𝐼 𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 ... (9:30–13:00, 16:00–19:00). Entrance with synagogue ticket (Jewish History Museum, 4 euros).

𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨: SECA Foundation tel. 0883/582470

Phone: ILMC Foundation Tel. 347 0095976 - 328 1443279