At work together with 39 students for an exhibition to "restore power to images"
"The images related to the Nazi extermination camps risk losing their original impact and becoming confused, losing their meaning, in the amount of photos that bombard us every day on social media and beyond". For this reason, the University of the Republic of San Marino, as part of the three-year degree course in Design, is dedicating a workshop to a project with which thirty-nine students will 'redefine' and include a series of photographs in an exhibition which caused a sensation in the 70s: those, then little known, selected by Albe Steiner. “It was one of the most representative graphs of the post-war period – explains the teacher Lucia Roscini, who coordinates the laboratory – previously a partisan together with his wife. Among other things, they had developed the logo of the Val d'Ossola Division, used by the partisans: an important symbol of recognition in very hard times”.
The daughter of the couple, Anna, teacher and architect, active in the world of set-ups and graphics, met the students of the University of San Marino on 12 and 13 January for a workshop in which the boys "came in contact with a witness who knew the original selection – continues Roscini, supported by her assistant Ilaria Ruggeri – saw it being born and obviously had a special relationship with the curators”.
The project, in addition to the definition of the new exhibition, includes a communication campaign for which subscribers will make use of a second workshop that last week involved Luis Sal, youtuber and web celebrity, millions of subscribers and followers on the various platforms.
Student testimonials
Usmaradio dedicated two insights to the initiative, with speeches by Anna Steiner and Luis
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VISITING | Anna Steiner – Graphics and freedom
VISITING | Luis Sal – Memory in the time of social media