FLOWERS FOR FREEDOM, flowers for commemoration, flowers for memory, for rage, for denunciation, for revolt.
A hundred images by some of the best photographers in Italy and in the world, including Gianni Berengo Gardin, Lillian Bassman, Edouard Boubat, Henry Cartier Bresson, Mario De Biasi, Robert Doisneau, Franco Fontana, Horst P. Horst, Annie Leibovitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Tina Modotti, Sebastiano Salgado.
There are not many things as well-suited as a flower for representing the beauty, the colour, the scent of freedom. And what better than a flower blooming amongst harsh rocks or in the dry desert earth, a flower that stubbornly grows back no matter how many times it is trodden on, to represent the individual’s drive for freedom and recognition of his or her human dignity? An aspiration no obstacle, not even the most repressive of regimes, can prevent anyone from pursuing.
In the splendid and varied combination of the ideal and the visual, Amnesty International, the international movement for the defence of human rights awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 and the United Nations award in 1978, announces its invitation to solidarity, hope and determination. Flowers as a symbol of freedom, the full universal respect for which is Amnesty’s primary goal.
The exhibition offers delicate evocations, unexpected marvels, events in the news, glimpses of intimacy. The sumptuousness of cherry blossoms falling on the head of a young Oriental woman in a Paris park; the darkness of foreboding in the blood-red roses presented to John Fitzgerald Kennedy on the day of his assassination; the melancholy of a lost reign in the dahlias of former Rumanian sovereign Queen Ileana, or the paradox of a bouquet of red carnations stuck up the gun barrel of a Portuguese soldier fighting with the people back in 1974.
These are some of the hundred flowers collected to support the right to life, to personal freedom, to respect between people.
“Centofiori”
images, symbols, messages of freedom
FLOWERS FOR FREEDOM, flowers for commemoration, flowers for memory, for rage, for denunciation, for revolt.
A hundred images by some of the best photographers in Italy and in the world, including Gianni Berengo Gardin, Lillian Bassman, Edouard Boubat, Henry Cartier Bresson, Mario De Biasi, Robert Doisneau, Franco Fontana, Horst P. Horst, Annie Leibovitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Tina Modotti, Sebastiano Salgado.
There are not many things as well-suited as a flower for representing the beauty, the colour, the scent of freedom. And what better than a flower blooming amongst harsh rocks or in the dry desert earth, a flower that stubbornly grows back no matter how many times it is trodden on, to represent the individual’s drive for freedom and recognition of his or her human dignity? An aspiration no obstacle, not even the most repressive of regimes, can prevent anyone from pursuing.
In the splendid and varied combination of the ideal and the visual, Amnesty International, the international movement for the defence of human rights awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 and the United Nations award in 1978, announces its invitation to solidarity, hope and determination. Flowers as a symbol of freedom, the full universal respect for which is Amnesty’s primary goal.
The exhibition offers delicate evocations, unexpected marvels, events in the news, glimpses of intimacy. The sumptuousness of cherry blossoms falling on the head of a young Oriental woman in a Paris park; the darkness of foreboding in the blood-red roses presented to John Fitzgerald Kennedy on the day of his assassination; the melancholy of a lost reign in the dahlias of former Rumanian sovereign Queen Ileana, or the paradox of a bouquet of red carnations stuck up the gun barrel of a Portuguese soldier fighting with the people back in 1974.
These are some of the hundred flowers collected to support the right to life, to personal freedom, to respect between people.