Gianluigi Ricuperati: Ukraine must be at the center of every thought

In a passionate essay published on Artribune in March 2022, Italian writer Gianluigi Ricuperati declares Ukraine his second country and calls for unwavering moral and practical support. He invokes Ukrainian cultural giants—Prokofiev, Isaac Babel, Boris Mikhailov, Maria Prymachenko, Lev Landau—from Kyiv, Odesa, and Lviv. Ricuperati condemns Russian dictators from Stalin to Putin, describes Ukraine as a nation of children (Filiation) oriented toward the future, and insists that art must now serve to overturn the violent cosmos of a single historical monster. He urges readers to apply for Ukrainian citizenship, boycott Russian oligarchs in Sardinia, at contemporary art auctions, and on every platform, and declares Putin the enemy of peace whose death would be an act of love. The essay appears in Artribune's Incanti (art market weekly), Render (urban regeneration biweekly), and PAX (cultural tourism biweekly) sections.