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Museo Novecento
The famous performance Ebrea by Fabio Mauri (Rome 1926 – 2009), staged for the first time in 1971, will “relive” at the Museo Novecento in Florence. The first appointment is for today Thursday 23 January (7 pm, cinema room), on the occasion of the previews of the new exhibitions which feature, among others, the famous Roman artist. Two exceptional performances will follow on 24 and 27 January 2020 (both at 6.30 pm, cinema hall of the Novecento Museum).
Ebrea is a historical performance by Mauri, in which the artist – who has long investigated the dynamics of power, terror and ideology – tackles the themes of the Holocaust, racial discrimination, “evil”. Issues that are not to be addressed solely from a historical perspective, because tragically, for Mauri, they have to do with the nature of the human being and for this reason they are always present and always to be unmasked and contrasted.
In front of a mirror, a young naked girl cuts herself some locks
of hair slowly composing with them the symbol of the Star of David. That same symbol that is drawn on her chest and that “marked” the victims of the “final solution” during the Nazi-fascist rule in much of Europe.
“I feel Jewish whenever I can and I suffer unjust discrimination” wrote Mauri in the original text of the exhibition at the La Salita Gallery, Rome, 1971.” In Ebrea the operation is cold. And indelicately cultural – added the artist – I patiently replay, with my hands, the experience of the vile. I explore its mental possibilities. By extending the act, I invent new objects made of new men. I get in the way of the secular security of contemporary ‘design’ so confident in ‘progress’”.
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