Magazzino Italian Art, in collaboration with the Centro Primo Levi in New York, presented Art After War, a program spotlighting the resilient legacy of the Mazzetti sisters. Born in Rome in 1927, Paola and Lorenza Mazzetti witnessed the murder of their adoptive family—the Jewish cousins of scientist Albert Einstein— in August 1944, an event that profoundly shaped their artistic journey. Their lives became a testament to resilience and an exploration of trauma through a diverse range of creative expressions encompassing painting, filmmaking, writing, and psychoanalysis.
The event was in commemoration of the Giornata della Memoria—the International Holocaust Remembrance Day—observed every year on January 27th and was part of a joint project with other Italian institutions in N.Y. The program at Magazzino serves as a tribute to the twin sisters’ profound artistic impact. Speakers Alessandro Cassin and Davide Spagnoletto provided insight into the parallel artistic practices of Paola and Lorenza and how art became a means of navigating a society still influenced by the traumatic events of war and persecution.
