The exhibition The Great War on paper. Press, Narrative, and Art in Europe.1914-1919 represents the World War One seen through the eyes of illustrators, caricaturists, politicians, and men of letters who adapted their art to military needs.
The exhibition includes the three floors of the Modern Art Museum “Mario Rimoldi”:
Ground floor: The Front of the Veneto during the Great War. One hundred years one hundred pictures. A photographic exhibition about the life of Italian soldiers in the front.
First floor: The Great War on paper. Press, Narrative, and Art in Europe.1914-1919. Postcards, satirical cartoons, trench journals, magazines, and testimonies of various kinds present different facets of war such as propaganda, dissent, love, satire, landscape. These media allowed to communicate a belief or a situation at a glance. The authors were both writers and illustrators who worked from “home”, as well as soldiers serving on the frontline or just behind the front.
Second floor: the artworks of the permanent collection with artists lived during the World War One.