A work against the Roma census at the Northern League headquarters: new art blitz by Cristina Donati Meyer

After the first “raid” at the prefecture of Milan, during which she exhibited a painting depicting Interior Minister Matteo Salvini as an unlikely Robocop, Cristina Donati Meyer (Milan, 1985) in the past few hours has made another artistic blitz to protest against the Lega Nord policy: this time the artist went to the headquarters of the Lega Nord in Via Bellerio in Milan to exhibit a work entitled Censimenti and created in protest against the idea of censusing Roma manifested in recent days by Salvini.

The painting depicts two Jewish children in a Nazi extermination camp, accompanied by a famous quote by Bertolt Brecht, and caught showing the identification numbers tattooed on their arms: a parallel with the ethnic-based filing wanted by Salvini. “This parallel, albeit in the form of an artistic provocation,” Donati Meyer said, “is even more painful for me, having Jewish origins.” Cristina Donati Meyer, who combines art with political engagement, is no stranger to this kind of performance, which has also been enacted in the past to raise awareness, for example, on the issue of feminicide. The posting of Censuses in front of the Northern League headquarters was later interrupted by the military manning the street: the artist was identified by Digos and Carabinieri and then removed. The work, he said, will later be donated to the city of Milan, as was the case with the “Salvini-Robocop,” which is now posted on the ramp of one of the bridges of the Naviglio Grande, in a spot of great passage.

Cristina Donati Meyer, art director of Spazio M’Arte in Milan, lives and works in the Lombard capital (her atelier is located in the Navigli area). She took part in the Venice Biennale in 2012, in the Italian Pavilion curated by Vittorio Sgarbi, and has exhibited her works in several solo and group exhibitions throughout Italy.

A work against the Roma census at the Northern League headquarters: new art blitz by Cristina Donati Meyer

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