Blocking Removal at the Risk of Life.
Hyuro dedicates her work to Maria Occhipinti, an anarchist, feminist and pacifist from Ragusa. She had thrown herself in front of military vehicles in February 1945, 23 years old and five months pregnant, to block the removal of “renegade” youths who were to be burned up as cannon fodder on changing fronts toward the end of World War II.
“Europe’s southernmost art action”
The FestiWall organized in the extreme southeast of Sicily is the “southernmost art action in Europe,” according to a report by Davide Bocchieri in the “Giornale di Sicilia” Among the artistic contributors are Agostino Iacurci and the German-born, Venezuelan-born and raised graffiti artist SatOne (aka Rafael Gerlach), who now lives mainly in Munich.
The lady of Italian “anarcho-feminism”.
Once again back to Maria Occhipinti: the 1921 born woman from Ragusa, who blessed the temporal in Rome in 1996, is considered the grand old lady of the so-called “anarcha-feminism”. Confidence in the modern development of her native Italy was limited. In any case, the single mother decided to raise her daughter on extensive world travels and to give her the experience of the greatest possible freedom. Occhipinti’s self-penned biography, “A Woman from Ragusa,” was published in 1957. The book went unnoticed – until 1976, when a second edition became a bestseller, earning the author the prestigious Brancati Zafferana Prize .