In Senigallia, performance on the Ustica massacre by artist Giovanni Gaggia

From August 19 to 26, 2020, Ventimilarighesottoimari inGiallo, the festival of noir and giallo civile organized by the City of Senigallia in collaboration with the Rosellini Foundation for Popular Literature, returns. Now in its ninth edition, the literary event in Senigallia features a rich program featuring authors Piergiorgio Pulixi, Piernicola Silvis, Gabriella Genisi, Sandrone Dazieri and Alessandro Robecchi, and Rosa Teruzzi. As international guests, Jean Claude Maire Vigueur and Elisabeth Crouzet Pavan for the section on historical detective stories.

As every year, stories related to more or less recent Italian historical events will be told with a strong spirit devoted to legality and civicism: the 2020 edition of Ventimilarighesottoimari inGiallo will present at the opening a meeting held by Daria Bonfietti, president of the Association of Relatives of the victims of the Ustica massacre.

Daria Bonfietti will dialogue on the stage in Piazza Garibaldi with another protagonist of that dramatic event: Tiziana Davanzali, daughter of Aldo Davanzali, the Ancona entrepreneur who was the patron of Itavia, the Ancona-based airline company that went bankrupt following the plane’s crash due to an alleged structural failure of the aircraft. Just a few months ago, the Rome Court of Appeals quantified the amount of compensation owed to Davanzali’s heirs by the Ministries of Defense and Infrastructure.

In dialogue with the visual arts, the festival will feature artist Giovanni Gaggia ’s performance Quello che doveva accadere/INVENTARIUM on the Ustica massacre. The video of the performance will be screened at the end of the Aug. 19 meeting and for the duration of the festival will be on view at the San Rocco Auditorium in Garibaldi Square, daily until Aug. 26, from 7 p.m.

On June 9, 2017, at dawn, artist Giovanni Gaggia (Pergola, 1977) staged the performance What was supposed to happen/INVENTARIUM in the Old Port of Ancona, featuring the Trajan Arch and the Vanvitelli Arch. Inventarium is a complex project that took place in several steps, between Bologna and Palermo, and Ancona is the place chosen by the artist to bring it to fruition. It is an artistic and aesthetic meditation on the Strage di Ustica, a deepening of the sense of living memory in which pain is freed from the contingency of tragic fatality and transfigured into the feelings of life, resistance, and resilience.
The choice of Ancona was not accidental: it is the city of Aldo Davanzali, founder and president of Itavia, where he died in 2005,joining the eighty-one victims of the massacre.

Giovanni Gaggia, seated under the Arch of Trajan, is the protagonist of a slow and ritual act: an embroidery that becomes a sign, an inlay, a suture on a leaden and luminescent tapestry and that unfurls a thread of memory with feral and cauterized notes.

Image: What had to happen/INVENTARIUM, performance on the Ustica massacre by artist Giovanni Gaggia. Ph. Credit Michele Alberto Sereni

In Senigallia, performance on the Ustica massacre by artist Giovanni Gaggia

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