NO WAR

Violence and human cruelties subsist at every latitude of the Earth and they assume the shape of any ideology.

We can take in consideration the Far-West period and the slaughtering of the American Indians, peaceful inhabitants brutally killed and deprived of their lands.

We can take in consideration the Third-Reich period and the genocide of the Jews in Europe, a genocide perpetrated in lager camps with the help of gas chamber and crematories. Under the sign of a svastika, millions of people died.

You can see at the horizon a huge cloud that look like a mushroom: that’s the expression of the first atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan.

Few seconds to kill and burn hundreds-thousands people while the survivors will die later of enormous sufferance due to the tremendous atomic radiations.

And what about nowadays? The sudden attack at the Twin Towers in New York by two hijacked airplanes caused the death of thousand people.

What about the hundred-thousands victims provoked by continual wars in the Middle-East, the last one in Iraq.

It is essential to confirm the uselessness of the war that accompany since ever humankind and its history as a tragic shadow.

Walter Storri

translator: Luca Pulitini

oil on canvas 60x70 (2002)