Wednesday, October 2, 2024 in CULTURE
ITALIANS ABROAD
FROSINONE /NEW YORK – “Travel cards. Italian emigration in New York”: an exhibition and a round table at the Italian Cultural Institute. The Academy of Fine Arts of Frosinone in close collaboration with the Institute of Italian Culture of New York, the General Council of Italians Abroad for non-European English-speaking countries and the John D. Calandra Italian Institute of New York proposes a reflection on the phenomenon of the emigration of peoples, however immersed in the historical dimension of the arrival of Italians in New York between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. The exhibition, designed for Italian Culture Week in New York, will be inaugurated on October 7 at 6 pm. The exhibition, which can be visited until October 13th, will be preceded by a round table which will begin at 3 pm
A massive emigration, resulting from the backward economic, historical and social conditions that developed in post-unification Italy, which saw in the flourishing and extensive United States of America a possibility of prosperity and sometimes even of real survival. An emigration, however, made difficult by demanding travel conditions, by a severe admission law and by a welcome that was often anything but hospitable. The project involved the School of Art Graphics – Art Graphics for Illustration in the creation of works centered on the theme of Italian emigration to New York and the United States. The students worked on source materials that tell the imagination of America, starting from films, books, vintage photographic material often recovered from family memories, video documentaries and works by artists dedicated to the urban scenes of the time. Some musical contributions and web resources were also the subject of reflection. Created on paper supports, with different techniques and sizes, the works make up a composite exhibition itinerary, between past and present, to range from illustration to engraving, from stories through images to artists’ books and narrate the history of Italian emigration in the United States also through today’s gaze, restoring the emotional complexity of a phenomenon that is an integral part of contemporaneity. Greetings will be given to the Round Table by: Fabio Finotti, Director of the Italian Institute of Culture; Loredana Rea, Director of the Academy of Fine Arts of Frosinone; Silvana Mangione, Deputy General Secretary of the General Council of Italians Abroad. Moderator: Anthony J. Tamburri, Director John D. Calandra Institute – City University of New York. Speakers: Stanislao Pugliese, Hofstra University New York, “Emigration from small cities or towns that are emptying”; Donna Chirico, City University of New York, “The psychology of emigration”. (Inform)
