Show Colors4Palestine – Shout of color for Gaza – Artists against genocide

The “Colors4Palestine” project was born from an idea by Daniele Caluri, as a protest initiative aimed at raising public awareness about the ongoing situation in the Gaza Strip, which is defined as dramatic is an exercise in pale euphemism.

The initial idea was to create drawings, dedications, and whatever else the author was asked for at various trade fairs, using only white, black, red, and green: the four colors of the Palestinian flag. In this way, those involved, even in a context of amusement, would inevitably have to come into contact with the issue, triggering a reflection on it.

Then, also in order not to limit the operation to a single author and to try to expand the effect, Caluri extended the invitation to his colleagues and, more generally, to all those who wanted to contribute with their own work.
Thus, in just a few days, many contributions have arrived from the most diverse areas on the author’s personal social profiles and on dedicated Facebook and Instagram pages: many comic book authors, but also teachers, architects, ceramicists, engravers, metalworkers, even musicians.

To date, contributions are still ongoing and number more than 90 works, including some created by the most well-known and prestigious names in the international comic sector: Carmine Di Giandomenico Bruno Cannucciari, Alberto Pagliaro, Federico Bertolucci, Federico Maria Sardelli, just to name a few. The collection is made without a precise hierarchy dictated by the greater or lesser renown of the author, but as a collective outcry in which image professionals and non-professionals coexist, united by indignation and the urgency to denounce an unsustainable human situation.

The project followed by Francesca Ricci for its realization in collaboration with ANPI Livorno aims to continue to focus on the Palestinian issue until the ongoing massacre ends, and to counteract its disappearance from the mainstream media because it is overshadowed by other events, however of worldwide resonance.

With the patronage of the Municipality of Livorno and the support of the Lem Foundation