Church of San Francesco
Largo Ospedale Vecchio 1 Udine
From 20 January to 25 February 2024
Free Admission
Thursdays 9am-1pm (school groups only, upon appointment)
Fridays 10am-12pm
Saturdays and Sundays 10am-12pm, 3pm-6pm
organised by ANED
curated by Giuliano Banfi, Gaia Carboni, Dario Venegoni and Leonardo Visco Gilardi in collaboration with Maria Vittoria Capitanucci
with the collaboration of Civic Museums of Udine, Fondazione Memoria della Deportazione, Alberico Belgiojoso and Fondazione Fossoli
sponsored by ANPI (Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d’Italia), APO (Associazione Partigiani ‘Osoppo-Friuli’) and IFSML (istituto Friulano per la Storia del Movimento di Liberazione)
Vernissage 19 January 2024 at 6 p.m.
Guided tours by the Education service of the Civic Museums of Udine
phone +39 3452681647 | e-mail didatticamusei[at]comune.udine.it
For the first time, on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2024, the exhibition sheds light on the monuments and the memorials that the BBPR studio designed to commemorate and honour the victims of Nazi-Fascist deportations.
Established in 1932 in Milan, the BBPR architectural, urban planning and design partnership was named after the initials of its four founders: Gian Luigi Banfi (1910 - 1945), Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso (1909 - 2004), Enrico Peressutti (1908 - 1976) and Ernesto Nathan Rogers (1909 - 1969).
In Summer 2021, the photojournalist Nanni Fontana (Milan, 1975-) researched on five architectural projects designed by BBPR to honour the deportees: the Monument to the Fallen in the Nazi Camps (1945) at the Monumental Cemetery in Milan, the Memorial in Gusen (1965), the Museum-Monument to Political and Racial Deportees in Carpi (1973), the long and complex story of the Memorial of the Italians Fallen in Auschwitz now in Florence (1980) and the Monument to the Deportees in Parco Nord, Milano (1998). Moreover, Fontana focused also on the recently-restored Memorial of the Women Deported to Ravensbrück (1982).
Fontana, in addition, compared his photographs with rare pictures coeval to BBPR’s projects and conducted archival research to reconstruct the role that ANED (the Italian National Association of the ex-Deportees into the Nazi Camps) played in the realisation and preservation of these five monuments and memorials.
Fontana, in conclusion, rather than focusing on a mere architectural description of BBPR’s memorials, opted for narratting these projects and sites from the perspective of his photojournalistic profession.