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100 years ago Guido Lopez was born in Milan.
Guido Lopez's work is articulated and developed in different areas. It is difficult to give an exhaustive definition, which does not risk leaving out important sides of a multifaceted personality and tireless productivity. Narrator, essayist, interpreter of his time, cultural organizer, he stood out for his writing style which was a lifestyle. Ironic, scathing and an enemy of rhetoric, he left us a multi-layered autobiography, with many branches, although never collected in a single volume.
He generously dispersed the story of his life in scattered prose, which the exhibition for the centenary of his birth intends to reconstruct and systematise in a journey through twentieth-century Italy which is accompanied by an exclusive montage of his texts, the exhibition of books and of the articles he wrote, of the correspondence he had with the authors of his time.
Forced to flee dangerously from his homeland in 43 as a persecuted Jew, he maintained his dual facets of Italian citizen and Jewish community, never denying one or the other.

• Exhibition from 12 April to 1 May 2024, at the Shoah Memorial - Piazza Edmond J. Safra 1 (Central Station)

Organized by the ETS Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center Foundation, it consists of the exhibition of 18 panels containing the reproduction of photographs, letters and documents from the personal archive recognized since 2013 as being of historical interest.

The material will be presented with particular attention to the public of all origins who visit the Memorial, highlighting the multifaceted figure of Guido Lopez. There will be introductory speeches by Alberto Cavaglion and Fabio Lopez with the support of audiovisuals and extracts from interviews with Guido Lopez. 

• Exhibition opening April 11th at 18pm

Speakers: 

Pierfrancesco Maran - Councilor for Housing and Neighborhood Plan
Simone Locatelli - President of Municipality 2
Roberto Jarach - President of the Shoah Memorial Foundation
Giorgio Sacerdoti - President of the Jewish Documentation Center Foundation
Alberto Cavaglion - Curator of the exhibition
Fabio Lopez Nunes - son of Guido Lopez and co-curator of the exhibition

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• Meeting April 15th at 18pm - Shoah Memorial

Falfal
Being Jewish is difficult, dangerous, but stimulating, an unpublished story and correspondence with Edith Bruck and Primo Levi, presentation of the booklet produced by Ugo Mursia Editore for the centenary of Guido Lopez.
Fàlfal is a grotesque fantasy around the theme of anti-Semitism. Screening of videos and memory pills on the life and work of Guido Lopez.

Speakers:
German Rosary - actor and playwright
Alberto Cavaglion e Fabio Lopez Nunes

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Part of the initiative is the placing of a plaque in Piazzale Lavater on 12 April at 15 pm, in memory of Gillo Dorfles and Guido Lopez, near their homes.
Meeting with the girls and boys of the Stoppani Primary School and greetings from the authorities and descendants.

It will follow at 18 pm - at the Town Hall 00 - via Sansovino 3:
Gillo and Guido in the mirror
Meeting and story of the two protagonists of Milanese culture, with Caterina Antola, Ermanno Arslan, Aldo Colonetti, Lorenzo Strick Lievers, Wilma Viganò, Fabio Lopez.

With the patronage of Municipalities 2 and 3.

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Download the exhibition poster here