The Carabinieri of Italy
"Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow"
The “Cultural Event”
represents an importante step in
establishing a “Corporate Image”.
An Art Exhibition
covers the “left side” of the psychological spectrum, guaranteeing loyalty in
“Traditional, root oriented” values. The right hand spectrum is polarised by
“Sport, and dynamic values”.
The Art Exhibition on the Carabinieri is unique, because it covers both
spectrums, from the roots of Italian Tradition to the Dynamic actions of Today.
“The
Carabinieri of Italy - YESTERDAY, TODAY & TOMORROW”
The Jubilee Year
2000
The Exhibition: organised is the work of “Nussy” Elisabeth Denzler von Botha, a painter who has already dedicated a major Exhibition to the “1oo Years of the Battle Banner” of the Carabinieri in 1994. Her monumental “Charge of the Carabinieri Cavalry” (1,50mx2.50m) is in the National Museum of Piazza Risorgimento and her headscarf "The Stallion" was the Carabinieri GHQ gift of the year in 1995.
Subject Matter : The “Carabinieri” are a National Institution, something akin to the Royal Canadian Mounties and the English “Bobby”. The first regiment was created in 1814, at the end of the Napoleonic Wars and a year later participated, with valour, in the Campaign of France. Since then it has consolidated a solid reputation for Law and Order, reliability and integrity and is today, “the” Institution with the highest degree of acceptance (over 90% of the population). Its role, half way between a Military Force (over 30% of the Italian Military) and a Police Force, operating in all the fields of activity, from Traffic Duty to CID, from the protection of Art Treasures to the supervision of Food & Drug Laws. Recently it has seen duty in Lebanon, Somalia, Bosnia and Kosovo, alongside UNO, NATO, KSFOR and other allied forces.
The Themes: The object of the Exhibition, entitled “Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow” is to underline the role of the Carabinieri in the “making” of Italy, the “Risorgimento”, a heroic period, akin to the American Revolution, that stretched from the mid Nineteenth Century to the First World War. This “spirit” was rekindled during the second World War and during the War on Terrorism. It is one of the proudest moments the Italian people look back on.
“Today”, instead, depicts the activity of the Carabinieri in everyday life, its contactrs with the schools, with farmers, immigrants and the townships.
“Tomorrow” is illustrated as the guarantee that this guiding spirit will not fail and that the Italian people will always have somebody to turn to in their moment of need.
The Works. Thirty paintings, executed in pastel crayons, with a technique used in the Renaissance, which Nussy has “reinvented”; of monumental dimensions (1.50m x 2.50m), depicting all the significant heroes of the past and the anonymous rank and file of Today. The paintings are enclosed in simple, silver frames, on black easels (The Carabinieri Uniform is Black, with red epaulets and leg piping).
The Itinerary. On June 6th the Exhibition was presented to an internal audience of over 600 Carabinieri Officers and relatives, at the Palidoro Cavalry Barracks of Rome, in the presence of the Authorities, Nato representatives and the Carabinieri High Command. On June 7th it was transferred to the Civic Hall of Pomezia, Rome; the Civic Art Gallery of Aprilia (14/06); the Basilica of S. Maria Goretti (24/06) then to the Castle in Nettuno (25/06); the Civic Art Gallery of Latina (01/07); Ciivic Theatre of Pollenza (Matera) (15/07), then on to various individual events. In Autumn a combined Multimedia Show and Art Exhibition will be presented in Milan, during the SMAU Fair and thence to Paris Orly South Airport Gallery from September 28th to October 29th. Finally, back to Rome, on November 4th for the National Holiday of November 4th (Victory Day WW 1) the Exhibition will be hosted in the Risorgimento Hall of the “Vittoriano”, the Victory Monument dedicated to the Heroes of the wars of Independence as part of the Jubilee Celebrations. On November 17-21st (Semper Fidelis Holiday), it will move to the Carabinieri National Museum in Piazza Risorgimento, Rome. from that date an itinerary is being planned throughout Italy and to a number of European capitals.