At the Zisa cultural yards in Palermo, a photographic exhibition by Angelo Pitrone called “Berlin beyond the wall” has been set up. The exhibition is part of a rich programme organized by the German cultural institute to celebrate the anniversary of the falling of the wall “1989-2009: 20 years after the Wall”. Since the 70s Angelo Pitrone has photographed Sicilian landscapes, and he usually uses photographs as a figurative comment to well-known works by Pirandello, Sciascia and Tomasi di Lampedusa. He has exhibited many photographs in Italy and abroad.

With fifty pictures he proposes a new Berlin as a free city, in the middle of a metamorphosis, in which the past lives together with the present and with the future.

A swarm of cranes and yards, destroyed buildings and old walls. The traditional Checkpoint Charlie and the old station of the underground of the Eastern side of the city. The old graffiti on the border wall and the new ones on the buildings of the western part of the city. “Pitrone’s photographic journey seems to go through a desert… from east to west, between two civilisations, two world views, one in which, the thesis, cancelled the other, the antithesis… “ said Renato Tomasino, President of the Media sciences course of the Palermo University.

Translated by Chiara Nunnari from John Milton Institute