ZRAlt! or, in Italian, “Zona Rossa Alt!” (which may be translated with the semi-acronym RZAlt!, “Red Zone Alt!”).

The dramas, or rather the tragedies behind that ban, have been bitterly experienced worldwide by millions and millions of people. Caused by natural, environmental, civil disasters (wars, famine and epidemic diseases) and, above all, the psychological distress. Feelings of fear, helplessness, and the incessant questioning “when will that damned icon-sign be removed?”, are the main elements of the individual or collective equilibrium  that, most of the times, is abruptly interrupted  in just a few seconds. This is what recently happened with the devastating earthquakes that shattered L’Aquila and Emilia Romagna, Haiti or the Japan tsunami. How to react, or rather, how did the individuals and the entire communities respond […]

A tent of colour and two monumental works of art for wounded L’Aquila

Chronicle of a unique performative event. (Tent Camp in sports field Centi-Colella, L’Aquila, 25 June / 12 July 2009)

Antonio Gasbarrini

End of May-24 June 2009

She came to visit me at the end of May, at the hotel on the coastline where, since 8 April, I was put up along with about other hundred homeless people from L’Aquila. I am talking about Anna Seccia, the painter from Pescara. “We should do something for the artists and for the rest of the people residing in the tent camps”.  […]

The philosophy of Angelus Novus, of the society to come and the faces of indignation of L’Aquila residents in July 2009

Pino Bertelli

still to Pier Paolo Pasolini, friend and mentor

because his defenceless scroungers, his miserable prostitutes,
and the best of youth that has gone to fight
a war of Resistance wearing a red bandana around their neck…
are angels essential to comprehend the lost love
of a suffering human race and the conquest of the coming
Spring of beauty to the song “Bella ciao”  […]