Amelia Valletta partecipated at Photography exhibition “Different Viewpoints: Traditional Mediterranean Architecture” on 10 July 2007 in Barcelona, in the gallery of the Col·legi d’Aparelladors i Arquitectes Tècnics de Barcelona and at the RehabiMed conference “Traditional Mediterranean Architecture, Present and Future”, on 12, 13, 14 and 15 July in Barcelona.

5-12 luglio 2007. Sono stata invitata ad una collettiva di artisi emergenti. Zooart, progetto patrocinato Regione Piemonte, Comune di Cuneo, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Cuneo, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Torino.

Ho pensato ad un’istallazione fotografica, AtlantikWall Bunker’s Village. Una gabbia di ferro e filo spinato cui attaccare le immagini b/n dei bunker. E poi, centinaia di fotocopie con altre immagini e frasi di propaganda. In sottofondo le musiche del Reich. Gli altri artisti : Laura Ambrosi, Hiroaki Asahara, Alessandra Baldoni, Marie Paul Bilger, Stefania Bona, Michele Cantamessa, Maristella Colombo, Federico Fernicola, Sato Kimitake, Alessandro Paseri, Portage (Enrico Gaido + Alessandra Lappano), Pinuccio Revello.

a ricerca è parte di
THE ATLANTIC WALL LINEAR MUSEUM Granted by EU programme “Culture 2000″
è promosso da
Orientamento Interni Laurea Specialistica in Architettura
a cura di
Gennaro Postiglione
contributi di
Europa Nostra – Facoltà di Architettura e Società – DPA-Politecnico di Milano
allestimento di
Valeria Bormolini, Claudia Brunelli, Margherita Parati
casi studio di
Amelia Valletta con studenti del Lab Interni ‘07, prof. Postiglione

Next 17th of May – 7.00 pm, there will take place at the Libreria Mondadori in Latina, the opening of AtlantikWall/fr_bunker’s village. From 17 to 24 may.

Vernissage 22 aprile ore 19.00 , Galleria della Memoria, Corso Italia 2 Milano

The last 5st of October, there has been at the Libreria Evaluna in Napoli, the opening AtlantikWall/fr_bunker’s village. Here some picts of the event. Thanks to all friends who came to visit the exhibition and buy the book. Part of the profit will be granted in charity for a dog pound.

http://www.exibart.com/profilo/eventiV2.asp?idelemento=45573

http://canali.libero.it/affaritaliani/165764.html

http://www.ephemerides.it/home/Notizia.asp?ID=5631

http://napoli.com/viewarticolo.php?articolo=17162

http://city.corriere.it/news/articolo.php?tipo=cronaca&id=66388&id_testata=9

http://www.ilportaledelsud.org/app07_050.htm

http://www.professionearchitetto.it/mostre/notizie/6800.aspx

The 23rd of March 1942, in a war directive, Adolph Hitler defines the fundamental principles that would have constituted the aspect of an immense work of military architecture, called Atlantikwall ( similar to Muraglia
Cinese or to Vallo di Adriano, accordino to Paul Virilio,)

6500 km of area interested from Capo Nord to the Pyrénnées.
6 European countries included (7 if we also include England and the Channel Islands), for the realisation of a system of defense, capillary and punctiform.
15 thousands of bodies of factories strategically displayed all along the Atlantic Cost.
13 million of meters cube of reinforced concrete.
334.000workers.

A unique example of prefabricated architecture.
Today, of this gigantic political boundary, more than architectonic, of this demarcation lign conceived with the idea of control over boundaries and in time, differently transformed, of these bodies of factories in reinforced

concrete, in most cases, nothing remains except traces, signs of a path.

Amelia Valletta, over two travels, goes over some pieces of this French cost, from Dieppe to the Normandie all the way to Saint Malò, to pursue further towards the Bretagne, Brest, the submarine bases of Lorient and Saint Nazaire, going all the way down along the occidental cost until the batteries of Soulac sur Mer, Saint Barbe and Saint Jean de Luz.
The idea is to complete a photographic relief of the contemporary landscape and of his microevidences, reconstituting as much as possible to do so, in an anonymous and documentary form, with a cold eye, and the explicit intention to inform, tell a story without narration, without scene setting.

Allo stesso tempo, “non ho potuto evitare di cogliere alcuni messaggi che questi bunker mi suggerivano. Messaggi di speranza, di gioco, di amore”.
I dettagli di questo viaggio, mappe, percorsi, appunti, e le foto naturalmente, sono raccolti in un piccolo carnet di viaggio* che si pregia del contributo di alcuni studiosi provenienti da discipline completamente diverse, invitati a riflettere sul tema del “bunker” in senso ampio.

Inaugurazione
Libreria Evaluna, Piazza Bellini 72 Napoli
Introduce Virginio Briatore.