Bologna, 50 years of Sturmtruppen told in an exhibition

The exhibition Sturmtruppen 50 years has arrived at Palazzo Bava in Bologna, paying homage to the well-known comic strip by Franco Bonvicini, aka Bonvi (Modena, 1941 - Bologna, 1995). The author presented the first strip of his Sturmtruppen in 1968 in Lucca, winning Paese Sera ’s award for best newcomer, and since then the German storm troopers have become the protagonists of comic cartoons that pillory the military service that Bonvi so detested.
Sturmtruppen is, in fact, an anti-militarist comic strip that pokes fun at the German soldiers of World War II as they move on the border of rubble and death, with an enemy invisible to the eye but echoing with thunderous gunfire and cannon fire, never missing an opportunity to ridicule the pettiness of power and to make fun, now with a biting tone, now with tenderness, of human weaknesses. All this with German slang based on the suffix “-en” written at the bottom of almost every word.

Sturmtruppen 50 years exhibits more than 250 original works, all made available by theBonvicini Archive and largely unpublished, but also leaves room for Bonvi’s other productions, from the serial one, with Cattivik and Nick Carter, to the authorial one, to some pictorial works never exhibited and the VM18 ones with Play Gulp, an erotic parody of the whole comic strip world. From the reconstruction of the studio, with materials and tools that show the creative process, a non-chronological path that highlights how topical still is the thought of an artist who profoundly influenced twentieth-century Italian pop culture: not only a cartoonist, but a complete artist, capable of arousing the enthusiasm of the general public as well as intellectuals, from Umberto Eco to Oreste del Buono.

The exhibition is open from December 7, 2018 to April 7, 2019. For all information you can visit the Genus Bononiae website: https://genusbononiae.it/.

Bologna, 50 years of Sturmtruppen told in an exhibition

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