In Quartu the memory of the Holocaust through the works of Walter Lazzaro

A Remembrance Day on the thread of memories imprinted in the painting of Walter Lazzaro , an artist who survived the concentration camps in Poland .

The appointment is for tomorrow in Quartu Sant'Elena , where about forty drawings made by the author in the concentration camp of Biala Podlaska will be on display in the ex Convento dei Cappuccini .

Also scheduled in the morning, from 9.30, an extraordinary municipal council open to students and the homage of the authorities in front of the "Memory Plaque" in Piazza Azuni.

Walter Lazzaro, the painter "of silences and solitudes" , after the years spent in Poland still had a rich artistic production, becoming a leading exponent of contemporary painting. Among the founders of the "Versiliana" current, he was the painter most loved by Giorgio De Chirico who compared his marine depictions to some of his metaphysical works entitled "Silent Natures".

The exhibition, entitled " I. Only a number ”, will be inaugurated at 11.30 in the presence of the mayor Graziano Milia, the municipal authorities and the artistic curator Walter Marchionni. Realized in collaboration with the Estetica and Progress Foundation, with the Archive of the Lazzaro Gallery in Milan and with the Lazzaro Forte dei Marmi cultural association, it will remain open until 28 February .

(Unioneonline/vl)