UNAEZEROQUATTRO. Un’indagine visiva sulla strage di via dei Georgofili, a trent’anni dall’attentato
25.05- 18.08.2023

From May 25 to June 18, 2023, Rifugio Digitale presents the exhibition by photographers Paolo Cagnacci and Matteo Cesari, UNAEZEROQUATTRO. A visual investigation into the Via dei Georgofili bombing, thirty years after the attack, curated by Irene Alison.
From May 25 to 27, the exhibition will also feature a video-mapping event set up in the Sala d’Arme of Palazzo Vecchio, curated by Irene Alison, organized in collaboration with the Association of the Families of the Victims of the Via dei Georgofili Attack, with the support… of Fondazione CR Firenze, Unicoop Firenze, Banca Ifigest, CNA Firenze, and under the patronage of the Municipality of Florence and the Region of Tuscany. On the night between May 26 and 27, 1993, at 1:04 a.m., a car bomb exploded in Via dei Georgofili, in the heart of Florence’s historic center. A white Fiat Fiorino packed with 250 kilograms of TNT, T4, PETN, and nitroglycerin, parked beneath the 14th-century Torre dei Pulci, caused the deaths of Fabrizio Nencioni, his wife Angela Fiume, and their two daughters, Nadia (9 years old) and Caterina (only 50 days old). It also killed Dario Capolicchio, a young student who lived in the building opposite the tower, injured more than 40 people, and caused severe damage to the Uffizi Gallery. Starting in the early 1990s, mafia bosses shifted their strategic targets, attacking Italy’s cultural heritage in an effort to force the State to yield to their demands. Only recently have investigations led to the arrest of the last mastermind behind the bombings, Matteo Messina Denaro, but there still remain dark areas that the judiciary continues to investigate. Thirty years after that terrible night, two Tuscan photographers, Paolo Cagnacci and Matteo Cesari, have visually documented its legacy, reconstructing parts of the events along the different paths followed by investigators. In the families of the victims, in the wounded, in the lawyers who led the trials, in the firefighters who that night pulled bodies from the rubble—but also in the recovered objects preserved as the last memories, and in the anonymous places where the crucial steps of the attack were prepared—the memory of an event that profoundly marked Italian history remains alive.