27 June 2023 will mark the 43rd anniversary of the Ustica Massacre, which caused the death of 81 people travelling between Bologna and Palermo on a DC9 of the Itavia company, on an early summer evening in 1980, during an air war, as recalled by Judge Rosario Priore in his 1999 sentencing order.
To celebrate this anniversary, the Associazione Parenti delle Vittime della Strage di Ustica (Association of the Relatives of the Victims of the Ustica Massacre) is restarting from the institutional collaborations born over the years around the Museo per la Memoria and through the invitation to artists to think of original works inspired by the massacre and by Christian Boltanski's permanent installation.
For the next edition of Attorno al Museo, which will take place from 27 June to 10 August in the Parco della Zucca, the starting point is contemporary art with an invitation to French artist Thomas Teurlai to create an original work with the curatorship of Lorenzo Balbi and the collaboration of the Settore Musei Civici | MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna. The artist, using some pieces of the DC9 ITAVIA not included in the reconstruction of the wreckage at the centre of Christian Boltanski's permanent installation, with the support of some dark rooms will create large format projected images that will create a sort of fresco in the vaults of the Museum for Memory. The work entitled Evidence of Crime will be visible from 27 June to 10 August during the museum's opening days.
Parco della Zucca - Via di Saliceto, 3/22 - Bologna
