Tano D'Amico's women's struggle on display in Carrara

From March 4 to June 25, the CARMI Museum in Carrara is hosting an exhibition by Tano D’Amico (Filicudi, 1942) titled La lotta delle donne (The Struggle of Women), a re-edition of the review that was organized in 2017 at the Castello dei Vescovi di Luni in Castelnuovo Magra. Fifty black and white shots but also a new multimedia installation to tell the story of women’s struggle from the early 1970s to the early 2000s through the lens of the great Sicilian photographer.

The exhibition, organized by the Municipality of Carrara and curated by the association Archivi della Resistenza - Circolo Edoardo Bassignani of Fosdinovo, which is the manager of the nearby Audiovisual Museum of Resistance, also a partner in the project, brings to Carrara the shots of one of Italy’s most appreciated photographers: among his many works Tano D’Amico’s one on the years of protest is perhaps the most famous, so much so that it is considered by many to be an indispensable part of the political and social imagery of the 1970s. Protagonist at CARMI will be an extremely significant strand of D’Amico’s work that features multiple generations of women at center stage: sisters and mothers, daughters and granddaughters with desires and smiles, sorrows and defeats. This is a genre of photography not so much of denunciation as of participation, respect and love for those trying to change the world. Rather than addressing possible defeats or victories, D’Amico is interested in fixing the dream of change with its inalienable desire for justice.

“In Tano D’Amico’s photos,” points out Carrara City Councilor for Culture Gea Dazzi, “every woman can recognize her own personal claim. There is a sound that can be perceived and it is the strong voice of those who have no voice. That is why I chose for the playbill a photo in which the baton is passed, a voice is given to the women of tomorrow. A message therefore of confidence and hope.”

“With this important exhibition by Tano D’Amico, Archivi della Resistenza returns, after the Covid years, to the work of curating and promoting photographic exhibitions, with a focus on social documentation, civil issues and the struggle for rights,” says Simona Mussini of Archivi della Resistenza. “We thank the Municipality of Carrara and Councillor Gea Dazzi for believing in this project and the cultural message it intends to convey. There are then two reasons to make us particularly proud and proud to exhibit the ’Women’s Struggle’ exhibition at the Carmi. The first reason is the connection to the city’s rebellious identity that has roots in the Resistance and even further back. The July 7 women’s uprising is an episode of extraordinary significance in the panorama of European Resistance, and the feminists of the 1970s, from which the exhibition starts, are the daughters of those mothers, just as the women of the No Global movement are the granddaughters. The other reason for great satisfaction is the fact that this exhibition inaugurates a collaboration between two important museums in the area-the Carmi and the Audiovisual Museum of Resistance.”

A new edition of the exhibition catalog will be printed for the occasion, by Edizioni ETS of Pisa, edited by Archivi della Resistenza, with a preface by Maurizio Maggiani, an essay by Alessio Giannanti and Simona Mussini and an unpublished interview with Tano D’Amico.

The exhibition The Struggle of Women will be open from March 4 to May 31 every week Tuesday through Sunday from 9 a.m. to noon and 2 to 5 p.m., June 1 to 25 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 5 to 8 p.m. CARMI is located at Villa Fabbricotti, 42 Sorgnano Street in Carrara. Admission to the exhibition is included in the CARMI ticket (full €5.00 and reduced €3.00). Admission is reduced for students from outside the province and free for residents of the Province of Massa Carrara. For other exemptions or reductions check https://carmi.museocarraraemichelangelo.it. The visit to CARMI entitles visitors to a reduced ticket for The Audiovisual Museum of Resistance in Fosdinovo. Educational tours between the two museums are planned, with a workshop on “Women’s Struggle,” from the Resistance to the conquest of rights (for workshops info and reservations at 3290099418).

Tano D'Amico's women's struggle on display in Carrara

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