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Stephen Vietina wBELLUNO 

A stone, footprint, the desire to be there, to remember, but also to re-exist for a change. On 25 April, Liberation Day in Belluno in 1001 will also feature stones, signed. "The original idea - says the artist Aurelio Fort, author of this unique international art project with writer Alfonso Lentini - is simple and binds the mountain, the rock, the rocks on the theme of resistance, and because partisans and rebels have always lived these places as a basis for their battles, and because, due to their shapes projected upwards, mountains evoke the idea of freedom. But we did not stop at the desired memory, we wanted to look to the future. " In what way? "Resist the motto for Re-Exist, or fight against all forms of oppression to exist again, to go back to being men and women are free to assert their own history and their own lives." Fort Lentini and then they decided to create their own in Belluno, a city Gold Medal for the Resistance, a large installation with exposure Urbana, distributed in the urban fabric, stones of 1001 ("a palindromic number, which is a symbol of continuity, infinity "). Collective action "to turn Belluno in reception area, collector and plurality of ideas, because we believe that resistance is a universal symbol that tends to dissolve the barriers between peoples." On each stone will be applied a number and the name of those who have joined the initiative. The imprint of a finger, printed on paper with any technique, can be sent to the address: Resist for Ri / exist, Aurelio Fort, via Montecroce 19 Comelico Superiore, or Alfonso Lentini, via Agordo 337 Belluno. You have until March 31. Adhesions are already over 500 and are presented in a blog (resisistereper.blogspot.it) that documents the various stages of the project. There are also impressions of artists such as Emilio Isgro, Pablo Echaurren, writers such as Tiziano Scarpa Carola Susani, famous architects, musicians, actors, photographers, potters, artists, singers like Fiorella Mannoia, even as a showgirl Rosa Comics, the famous dancer Crazy Horse. "But above all ordinary citizens who are recognized in our idea - Fort continues - and wanted to be part of the project on an international scale. We have received applications from more than 36 countries on all continents, from Tehran and Moscow to Ulan Bator in Mongolia and Sidney. And then the cancer ward of Aviano, where you live dramatic stories of everyday resistance against evil. From Paris has come to us even a stone. " Even the stones. "We got them on the banks of the rivers Tagliamento, Isonzo, Drava, Piave, streams Cordevole Padola, Frison, smoothed by the flow of water over the years. We have taken from great heights, but also recovered in the fields, pulled out with a shovel to make them emerge from the darkness of the earth. Represent themselves a form of resistance that continues over time. Caressed, cleaned, washed one by one we have then personalized with name and number. " The stones will be on display in the city during the night between 24 and 25 April. And then what will happen? "In the meantime will be inserted here and there - says Fort - the normality of everyday life. One thing thin. " "Then, the installation is completed - close Alfonso Lentini - the stones will remain on the streets of Belluno for few days, then gradually return to where they came from. Anyone who wants them can pick up and carry around, a kind of symbolic pollination and multiply indefinitely dislocherà our idea »