VICENZA (ITALPRESS) – “The exhibition collects an amount of masterpieces of extraordinary value and interprets how strong the link that has been in the course of so long between culture, civilization, German and Italian sensibility. As it has been widely recalled, this explains how strong the foundations of the bond within our continent and within our European Union are.” This was said by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, taking part in the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza at the inauguration of the exhibition “Inspiration Europe – Italy and Germany – Painting and sculpture between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From Canova to Kiefer”.
“Statists enlightened, after the lacerations and horrors of World War II, after centuries of opposition, they have made the courageous and far-sighted choice to put together the future of European peoples, but this choice had a very strong base, a dimension is what we are dealing this morning, with the exhibition that collects this expression of great artistic depth that has linked together German artists and Italian artists – Mattarella added. The common sensitivity of the exhibition, which does not coincide with the image of Goethe, symbol among the most authoritative of the great link between Germany and Italy”.
“There are a number of links that have developed the solidity of common civilization over the centuries, of common European sensibility: from the right that has linked Europe for centuries to art. It is a cultural base of civilization that has linked our continent in an increasing way, with obstacles that have occurred over time to interrupt this fusion with violent opposition. They were finally overcome and dismissed by the courage of the choice of integration,” the head of the state concluded.
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