(ANSA) – BUENOS AIRES, June 22 – Everything is ready for the opening to the public tomorrow in the Cultural Center Kirchner (Cck) in Buenos Aires of the exhibition ‘The Chaco of yesterday and today – In the footsteps of Guido Boggiani’, organized by the Italian NGO Museo Verde in collaboration with the Farnesina and the Italian-Latin American International Organization (Iila).
The exhibition, explains a press release from the Italian embassy in Argentina, “is the first of two events aimed at strengthening and promoting collaboration between the Gran Chaco region, which is spread across four countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay ) and and Italy, within the Team Europe working group of the European Union “.
The objective of it, it is said then, “is to illustrate the environmental, natural and cultural importance of the area of which, while representing the second green lung of Latin America, the wealth and its problems are still little known”.
“It is a territory – it is emphasized – that historically has had, and continues to have, strong relations with Italy, both for travelers and artists who made it known around the world in the 19th century, and for the numerous Italian communities who live in that area, and the Italo-Argentine companies that operate there “.
The exhibition, curated by the former ambassador and photographer Gherardo La Francesca, is composed of period photographs, taken by the Italian explorer Guido Boggiani, and contemporary photographs, many unpublished, by the same curator and Luca Rugiu.
The initiative illustrates the story of Boggiani, traveler, explorer and artist, who died at the age of less than 40 in 1902, who dedicated his life to studying the cultural and natural diversity and richness of the Gran Chaco and, at the same time, proposes to raise public awareness of the validity of the importance of this region in the real world.
On the occasion of the event, which was inaugurated today in the presence of the Ambassador of Italy in Buenos Aires, Fabrizio Lucentini and the Argentine Undersecretary of Culture, a 256-page color catalog was prepared by Gherardo La Francesca. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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