Special thanks to our good friend Gesa Chomé for this exciting news regarding Pietro’s efforts in Germany.
After the very successful presentation of the pictures of D’Artagnan by the MOMA in New York and by the Italian Institute of Culture together with the Fil museum in Amsterdam, it is now envisaged by the Management Board of the ICBIE to organize a multimedia presentation in Berlin. Therefore, the director of the ICBIE, Pietro Gallina, was in Berlin from the 11th to the 14th of June in order to discuss this project with the director of the Italian Institute of Culture, who was very interested in this project and agreed to organize it at the end of the year. And, as has already been done in Amsterdam, in order to show the multi-talents of D’Artagnan as a painter and an actor, Mr. Gallina intends also in Berlin to show a choice of his films, especially the films of Federico Fellini, who was a very close friend of D’Artagnan. The famous Berliner Filmmuseum Potsdamer Platz would be the best place for that, and first contacts have been made with their management board.
Finally Pietro Gallina contacted several galleries in Berlin for the preparation of the exposition of the paitings.
Naturally some time was spent for tourism, especially the Brandenburger Tor,
the Reichstag and the Holocaust Museum.
And also for new youth exchange projects with young Spanish migrants in Berlin
and with alternative city transportation projects run by students.
Berlin with it’s very special history and where more than hundred languages are spoken offers a lot of possibilities for cooperation which should be explored over time.
THE GRAFFITI OF THE BERLIN WALL
During his visit in Berlin, Pietro Gallina was confronted with the preparations for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the wall (9 November 1989). He got the occasion to see the photos of his friend Gesa Chomé (Berlin), who took pictures of the most famous graffiti in the years before 1989 (which all disappeared when the painted parts wall were cut into pieces and sold all over the world). And as Pietro Gallina is deeply involved in the “Youth graffiti project” of the City Council of Salvador da Bahia, he spontaneously decided to plan an exposition of the wall paintings of Berlin in the ICBIE in Salvador. Naturally, for the historic date of 9th November. For this common project, Gesa Chomé showed him the “East Side Gallery,” which is a real part of the wall (about 250 m!) covered with marvellous graffiti painted after 1989 (ph 7) and the “Wall museum” where the whole history of the Wall is shown.
