Bidspirit auctions | ANNO Leilões Auction Jul 21

ANNO Leilões, Jul 21. 83 lots, estimates 10 - 1200 €.


ANNO Leilões - War runs through human history like a shadow that reason has never managed to dispel: from it are born horror and extinction, but also — in the contradiction that defines it — new technologies, supreme loyalty, the art and monuments that bear witness to it, and the institutions that memory raises so as not to forget it. Perhaps because it is not only the work of history, but also of our own biology — an impulse to always want more, which civilisation has disciplined but never managed to still — war remains a constant of the human condition, and it is that very persistence which lends these material vestiges their weight: they do not celebrate conflict, but preserve its memory, so that an understanding of the past may illuminate, however faintly, the present — itself abundant in wars. As for the future, there does not seem to be much hope...

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