"Compensation. Not to be forgotten. With this title, and on the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Via dei Georgofili massacre, the Uffizi symbolically bring back to the stage the same exhibition, consisting of 62 graphic works donated by dozens of international artists, which in 1995 testified in the most vivid way to the world's love for Florence, which had been wounded by mafia violence. The exhibition was strongly desired by the then-director of the Gallery, Anna Maria Petrioli Tofani, who is still in charge of the rearrangement today, along with Chiara Toti: "Compensation" will thus be visible again from today to June 16 in specially inaugurated rooms on the ground floor of the museum, accompanied by an online catalog that will illustrate and deepen the contents on the website uffizi.it. A mafia attack shocked Florence's heart on the night of May 26 and 27, 1993, killing five people and causing serious damage to the structure and hundreds of works of art in the Uffizi. In July of the same year, at the suggestion of the museum's then-director Anna Maria Petrioli Tofani, the collector Giuliano Gori launched an ambitious campaign of donations of contemporary works of art to symbolically compensate the museum for the losses suffered: the chosen area was graphics. Gori established a Committee for the Uffizi, into which experts in the field and prominent cultural figures were invited. They were interviewed among the most important artists of the time, and 81 works were donated. This core group of works, which arrived at the Uffizi between December 1993 and December 1994, went on to form a diverse and representative range in the contemporary landscape.
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