An exhibition in Cuneo traces the life of Bob Kennedy

On May 9, at 6 p . m., the exhibition “Bob Kennedy. The Dream - Emotional Experience,” which will be previewed privately by Kerry Kennedy, daughter of Robert Francis Kennedy and president of the Robert Francis Kennedy Human Rights Foundation, who on the morning of the same day, presented by Licia Colò, will meet thousands of high school students from the province of Cuneo at Pala UBI Banca.

The exhibition is a journey through the life of Bob Kennedy, brother of U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Thanks to special emotional showcases, visitors will be able to relive the most significant moments in Bob Kennedy’s life, from his relationship with his brother John to that moving farewell that millions of people paid tribute to him by hugging in a kilometer-long human chain on the day of his last trip.

One will be able to explore “the other America” and ’68, Martin Luther King and the battles for civil rights, all the way to the heart of the eighty-two-day campaign that will see him start quietly and then grow ever more so, in a compelling race that has finally come to the prospect of a concrete chance of victory and election as President of the United States. Approaching the White House represented the realization of a dream: the dream of changing the world. A dream, this one, that would end in the worst possible way, interrupted dramatically on the evening of June 4, 1968 by gunshots that mortally wounded Senator Bob Kennedy.
All of this will be made possible thanks to Lighting Touch 7.0® technology , the most sophisticated currently on the market in the field of interactivity, which allows walls to literally come to life: large 360° video projections change, mutate and evolve in real time at the touch of viewers. New pop-up windows, graphics, galleries, virtual captions, historical insights, new images and everything the imagination can imagine come to life in a spectacular projection for an immersive and all-encompassing experience.

Giandomenico Genta, president of the CRC Foundation, explains, "May 9, 2018, will be a truly important day for the City of Cuneo, celebrating the figure of Bob Kennedy 50 years after his passing with a national event produced in collaboration with the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Foundation. The morning will be an opportunity for an important intergenerational discussion focused on the importance of the founding values of contemporary society; then, with the opening of the exhibition ’Bob Kennedy. The Dream - Emotional Interactive Experience’, everyone will be able to rediscover the relevance and strength of the political, economic and human message RFK brought to the present day. A new exhibition initiative, dedicated to letting a diverse audience discover the well-rounded figure of Bob Kennedy, which we hope will replicate the great success of the public recorded with the exhibition on Piet Mondrian, visited in the five months of its opening by almost 10 thousand people. Among them were many children and classes, who with the educational workshops were able to discover this the Innov@zione Space."

Alessandro Marrazzo, curator of the project, explains, “Bob Kennedy. The Dream - Emotional Experience is a great portrait, the touching tale of a man, a fresco of one of the most beloved and important figures of the 20th century. Bob opposed the Vietnam War and championed the struggle for civil rights, with intensity of tone and great passion, he denounced injustice and inequality. His words carved in time resonate today as they did then in everyone’s consciences. Words such as those of the famous and impassioned 1968 speech on GDP - capable of calculating our material well-being, but not of measuring what we hold most dear, our happiness -, a speech that opens the exhibition and introduces its concept, establishing a bridge between the time in which it was pronounced, our today and the future of our children. Through different technological languages, each symbolizing its own era, a marriage of ageless ideals is thus enshrined.”

The exhibition will remain open until Dec. 16.
Hours: Tuesday through Friday from 3:30 to 8 p.m., Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 to 8 p.m. (closed Monday).
Admission is free.
For information you can call 0171/452720 or email info@fondazionecrc.it. More info on the CRC Foundation website.

An exhibition in Cuneo traces the life of Bob Kennedy

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