Two more weeks to visit Robert Capa exhibition in Trieste

The exhibition Robert Capa in Italy, being held at theAlinari Image Museum in Trieste, at the Bastione Fiorito of San Giusto Castle, has been extended until November 26, 2017. The exhibition recounts the years of World War II in Italy portrayed by the great war photojournalist Robert Capa (Budapest, Oct. 22, 1913 - Thái Binh, May 25, 1954), who documented the conflict between 1943 and 1944: on display are five framed original photographs and more than one hundred digital images, which can be consulted through multimedia stations. The exhibition, curated by Beatrix Lengyel for the historical-iconographic part and by Massimiliano Pinucci - MbVision for the multimedia part, is sponsored by the Ministry of Human Resources of Hungary, the artist’s country of origin. The photographs on display come from the Robert Capa Master Selection III series preserved in Budapest and acquired by the Hungarian National Museum between late 2008 and early 2009: these are 937 photographs taken in 23 countries on 4 different continents.

Robert Capa spent most of his life on battlefields in order to document events: the Hungarian photographer covered the Spanish Civil War, the Sino-Japanese War, World War II, the Arab-Israeli War and the First Indochina War (the last one cost him his life). Banned in 1931 from Hungary, he began sa activity in Berlin and became famous for his photos during the Spanish Civil War between 1936 and 1939. His activity in Italy, the one the exhibition aims to document, spans from the landing in Sicily to the Anzio landing (between July 1943 and February 1944).

“In the collective imagination,” says the curator, “Capa’s work is immediately linked to World War II, especially to the battlefields of France, Germany, Africa. Not to Italy. Yet there is a very relevant selection of his photographs that refer precisely to the Italian campaign.” “In the multimedia section of the Museum,” explains Massimiliano Pinucci, AIM designer and curator of the multimedia section, “we present a second reading of Capa’s work with a historical-geographical analysis of what happened in Italy between July ’43 and the end of the war.” It is precisely the multimedia section that represents an important novelty: the public will be provided with a series of tools to better understand and place Capa’s photographs. In particular, there will be ingographs, timelines with animations and videos, and three-dimensional projections with 3D viewers that will immerse visitors in the battles photographed by Capa. Also, projections on civilians disrupted by the war to document the impact of the conflict on civilian life.

The exhibition is organized by Fratelli Alinari Foundation for the History of Photography with the support of Palmanova Outlet Village, Allianz Trieste Borsa Aiello&Partners Agency and Consorzio Tutela del Vino Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco. Catalog published by the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest and Fratelli Alinari. All information can be found on the Alinari Image Museum website.

Two more weeks to visit Robert Capa exhibition in Trieste

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