Peace, a large installation at the National Gallery in Rome against war

The National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome expresses its no to war with a large installation, a large lettering placed at the foot of the staircase: PEACE. It is an installation of white pallets designed by Martí Guixé.

On the museum’s official website, director Cristiana Collu wrote: "Si vis pacem, para pacem. If you want peace prepare peace, build peace.

In fact, it is not enough to be against war or simply to desire peace, which is not a parenthesis, although looking at history it may seem so. And peace is not the absence of war: but it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition to benevolence, to trust, to justice in Spinoza’s words.

And we can do a great deal every day to change the assumptions that have so far triggered wars: no longer, therefore, ’si vis pacem, para bellum’ - if you want peace prepare for war - which has always legitimized a system of deterrence or deterrence, which in turn has done nothing but nurture fear and war as the only means of arriving at peace, denying all its principles.

Is it not now clear that this method does not work?"

Peace, a large installation at the National Gallery in Rome against war

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