Riccardo Mazzoni (1975), graduated from the Studio Marangoni Foundation in Florence in 2002. In 2004 he produced a reportage linked to the environmental impact of the Bologna-Florence high speed railway line. He recently exhibited his work at Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles in France and at the Tampere Backlight Festival in Finland.
For this Festival, Riccardo Mazzoni (1975) has revisited the Tuscan side of the Gothic Line, tormented at the end of the Second World War. The need for remembrance discovers a profound and silent echo in the empty spaces left by the horror that marked those places.
The three words of the title fully symbolise German military strategy applied after September 1944 until the spring of 1945: the Gothic Line was in fact the last front organised by the Nazi army as an answer to the advancing Allied Forces conquering Italy, a series of garrisons and fortifications that were meant to prevent, or at least delay, the arrival of English and American troops in the Pianura Padana, a defence line measuring 300 kilometres, from Massa to Rimini, created following the crest of the Apennines.
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