The dramas and intimacy of World War I soldiers on display in Sassari

From Nov. 4 to 30, the exhibition Photographers in the Trenches, curated by Gabriele Maccianti and Marina Gennari, will be on display at the Sassari Brigade Historical Museum, located in the Sardinian city. Designed in 2016 for the Santa Maria della Scala in Siena, the exhibition is the result of a long research work that brought to light a collection of more than 2,500 photographs postcards, diaries and letters of soldiers who left the Sienese territory to go to the front.

The images, precisely because of their private dimension, recount the front, its dramatic moments, but also its more restful and waiting moments, from a very intimate and inner point of view. They are shots of great emotional impact, not prone to rhetoric and powerful because of the total absence of self-censorship through which the photographer-soldier captures with his camera fragments of life at the front. The tragic nature of death and the brutalization of the trenches are alternated with the desire to restore an extreme human condition, seasoned with moral redemption and denoted by a concrete connection to a bloody yet affection-rich reality.
Photographers in the Trenches is the third exhibition produced by Santa Maria della Scala hosted by other museums or exhibition spaces. Luisa Menazzi Moretti’s Ten Years and Eighty Seven Days has just concluded in Treviso, following stops in Siena and Berlin, while Josef and Anni Albers is currently on view at The Glucksman in Cork, Ireland. Voyage in a blind experience, which debuted in Siena in April and will be at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb from January to April 2019.

In the photo: Alberto Averani, Transporting an Injured

The dramas and intimacy of World War I soldiers on display in Sassari

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