Atlantik_wall shortvideo

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inaugurazione AtlantikWall/fr_bunker’s village

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.

Atlantikwall.fr/bunker’s village’” Travel diary

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.