“From Bologna to the Great War. Paolo Senni photojournalist”, here is the new photographic exhibition at Palazzo d’Accursio.
Saturday, May 4 at 11 am, in the Manica Lunga of Palazzo d’Accursio, the exhibition “From Bologna to the Great War. Paolo Senni photojournalist” will be inaugurated, a selection of images taken by Paolo Senni (Rome 1872 – Bologna 1949), major artillery in the immediate rear of the First World War front and passionate photographer.
Speakers: the equal opportunities adviser Susanna Zaccaria, Mirtide Gavelli of the Civic Museum of the Risorgimento and the curators Paolo Senni Guidotti Magnani and Andrea Spicciarelli.
Furthermore the actress Tita Ruggeri will interpret some letters drawn from the rich correspondence between Barberina Guidotti Magnani and her husband Paolo Senni between 1915 and 1917; correspondence and photos also served to stage the theatrical performance “Retrovie”, with the aim of making known and disseminating what women have accomplished to promote the peace process, staged on May 15th at 8.30 pm at the San Oratorio Filippo Neri.
The photographs on display document life in the rear in some of the main scenarios of military strategies during the war years: Mogliano Veneto, San Giovanni al Natisone (then San Giovanni di Manzano), Udine, but also the newly liberated city of Gorizia and the trenches on the Isonzo, as well as some Friulian villages hit by Austrian bombing.
The entire photographic collection of Paolo Senni, composed of 504 images, can now be freely consulted in the Digital Collections section of the World War I scenario of the site www.storiaememoriadibologna.it created by the Civic Museum of the Risorgimento.
The exhibition, freely visible every day from 10 am to 7 pm, from 4 to 19 May, is carried out by the Equal Opportunities Office, protection of differences, contrasting gender violence in the Municipality, Civic Museum of the Risorgimento, Bologna Museums Institution, Archive Foundation Guidotti Magnani and Association of Peace Tracks in the wake of the cultural and educational initiatives carried out in 2018 with the project “1918 year of peace. Written words, recited words, images from the back”.
