"Sono tranquillo, altrettanto siatelo voi"
Ezio Setti. Traces and Documents
A dual exhibition itinerary between the “Museo della Città” and the Rovereto train station.
The project reconstructs the story of Ezio Setti, originally from Marco, through two interconnected paths: a documentary exhibition on his life, cut short at Mauthausen, and a site-specific installation inspired by his last letter, which miraculously reached his family.
The documentary core of the project is hosted at the “Museo della Città“. The exhibition “Ezio Setti. Traces and Documents, Marco 1887 – Mauthausen 1944” reconstructs the human and political figure of the protagonist through a historical itinerary composed of personal and public photographs, memoirs, and original documents.
The public art intervention moves to the underpass of the Rovereto train station, transforming a space of distracted transit into a place of “stumbling” into memory. Here, a device replicates—over a number of times equal to the days of detention at Mauthausen—the fall of the last letter written by Setti and thrown from the cattle car racing toward the extermination camp. Accompanying the installation, a body of black-and-white photographs documents the places of Setti’s life, bearing witness to their persistence in today’s geography.
The exhibition is promoted by the Fondazione Museo Civico di Rovereto, Nuovo Cineforum Rovereto, and the Municipality of Rovereto, with the contribution of Fondazione Caritro, with the support of the Autonomous Province of Trento, and under the patronage of ANPI Rovereto–Vallagarina “Angelo Bettini”, MITAG – Italian War History Museum of Rovereto, and ANED – National Association.
Project by Matteo Setti Peterlini.
