Toilsome death: war disasters

This exhibition tells us about the blind madness of war and about the human egoism through some of the most significant graphic-artistic works that spread via press between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries.

The mocking features of death characterize the physiognomies of many of the characters depicted: a host of senior officers, bankers, merchants, ecclesiastics, financiers, rulers, intellectuals, sovereigns acting only in the perspective of personal wealth and of spasmodic pursuit of power.

Toilsome death: war disasters, is part of the Unarmed Bodies project (it's its third stage) and recalls the artistic achievements of the first decades of the twentieth century and in particular the caricatures that during the FWW were published in some of the most popular magazines both in Italy and abroad.

The exhibition features mainly reproductions, but also contains original documents, and its themes are the persistence, pervasiveness and obsession of certain standards of expression that primarily associate with war and its destructive instruments the tireless, insatiable and universal extermination programme of man over man.