Street Art, a work in Carrara pays tribute to the women who rebelled against the Nazis in '44

A public art project invades July 7 Street in Carrara, the street dedicated to the partisan resistance of the town’s women who, on July 7, 1944, in Piazza delle Erbe, rebelled against the Germans’ order to abandon Carrara: the town, in fact, was then located on the Gothic Line, and the Nazis gave the order to clear it and move the population to Sala Baganza, in the Parma area. The people of Carrara refused to abandon their homes, and the women of the town led the rebellion against the occupiers. It was a spontaneous protest without the use of weapons led by women alone against Nazi-Fascism, in which the protagonists gave great proof of courage and unity.

To commemorate that urban episode, twelve women artists have created a collective street art work with paintings and phrases dedicated precisely to those brave women of 1944.

The idea originated from two women artists during their period of forced confinement due to the Coronavirus health emergency: during those months they saw the local art world increasingly shut down. “We were wondering how to bring some art among people,” said Enrica Pizzicori, one of the two artist creators, “and noticing the spaces for billboards empty due to the absence of events, we thought of filling them with messages.” Other artists involved included Maria Bressan, Selene Frosini, Valeria Greco, Anna Fabrizi, Stefanie Oberneder, Alem Teklu, Anna Torre, the A m’l rum da me collective, Daniela Borri and Sabine Feroci.

The empty advertising spaces were in fact filled with the works of the artists who interpreted with drawings and phrases that day of the heroic women and starting from there addressed in their own way the current female condition. Fighting cries, women bravely standing in front of armed Germans, fists raised in protest were interwoven with calls not to leave the city and themes such as the infibulation of girls, a practice still in use in some countries of Africa.

Street Art, a work in Carrara pays tribute to the women who rebelled against the Nazis in '44

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