On the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of the Liberation, Casa del Mutilato in Genoa joins the celebrations of the regional capital, Gold Medal for the Resistance, through its new cultural production "Vittorio Lavezzari. Even History can die". The exhibition, open from April 18 to May 16, 2025 — supported by the Presidency of the institution (Guido Vinacci) and curated by the Cultural Director of the Museum (Matteo Lenuzza) — aims to be a moment of public and physical restoration of a part of the city's Memory suppressed by the regime. 

The spaces of the building will indeed host the original sketch of the sculpture "Voltri to its fallen" from 1924, created by the artist Vittorio Lavezzari in anticipation of the subsequent realization of the monument, with the same title, which commemorated the sacrifice of the people of Voltri - directly in Piazza Gaggero, in the western part of the city, in front of the Town Hall. At the inauguration, one hundred years ago, Carlo Delcroix himself participated — founder of the National Association of War Wounded and Disabled, who lost limbs and sight in the First World War and whose words are a warning, dramatically current, engraved on the facade of Casa del Mutilato: "War is the lesson of history that peoples never remember enough". 

If daily photographs and videos of present conflicts testify to the horror that rages at the gates of Europe, Genoa saw an image of peace (by contrast) violently taken away and for violence, born from the pain that overwhelmed it in its recent past. It is during the Second World War that the Monument "Voltri to its fallen" was actually melted down to produce weapons: a paradoxical short circuit, which saw the same material previously used to support anti-war sentiment now being exploited as a killing tool. 

The exhibition "Even History can die" not only aims to remember the event from an artistic, historical, and social perspective but also to link it to everyday life, generating a constructive reflection in the visiting public — who will be able to participate in a temporary community moment, where it will be possible to once again reclaim a part of their heritage that was torn away. This project falls — this time through a suspended and critical atmosphere — within the horizon of enhancing public art undertaken by Casa del Mutilato in Genoa, which saw as its latest events "Nicola Neonato. Blink" (2024), "VIVA. For a present public art. Guido Galletti, Eugenio Fuselli" (2024) and "THEN. The figure of the mother in the post-war period" (2023).   | Artwork "Vittorio Lavezzari. Even History can die": Francesca Papasodaro | Graphic Design by Casa del Mutilato in Genoa: Cruo Studio