The Jewish art exhibition "At Night I Painted Red Pictures" has opened in Trani.

The inauguration of the exhibition "At night I painted red pictures" in the former Scola Grande Synagogue - Museum of Jewish History in Trani yesterday aroused great interest. This exhibition features 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, organized by the SECA Foundation of Trani and the ILMC Foundation of Barletta, will be held from January 12 to 2024 (a special musical event is planned for the finissage of the exhibition) and presents a selection of paintings taken from the vast Collection gathered by the Pesaro-based patron Roberto Malini and recently acquired by the ILMC Foundation.

In conjunction with the opening of the exhibition, a conference moderated by the journalist 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐓𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞 was held at Palazzo Lodispoto, attended by the patron 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐢, the musician 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐨 𝐋𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐨, president of the ILMC Foundation and researcher engaged for over thirty years in the recovery of music composed in concentration camps and the Director of the Polo Museale di Trani 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐨 𝐔𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐨. Also present at the event were 𝐈𝐬𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚 𝐂𝐢𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚 and 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐨, president and secretary general of the SECA Foundation and 𝐀𝐥𝐝𝐨 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐨, Director General of the Department of Tourism, Economy of Culture and Enhancement of the Territory of the Puglia Region, who highly appreciated the cultural value of the initiative.

𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐢 underlined how this exhibition - through the presentation of the works of three authors - represents a small but important cross-section of the art of the Jews of Europe which saw the involvement of thousands of professional artists, many of whom (about 200,000) perished in the Nazi concentration and extermination camps.

Below are some images from the conference and the exhibition opening.

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