The Irony of Destiny (Ironias do Destino)
Vittorio Corinaldi
2019
Drawings from Kibbutz Bror Hayil (1969‑1970)
A series of cartoon drawings made between 1969-1970 by the architect Vittorio Corinaldi was made following a request from the cultural coordinator of Kibbutz Bror Hayil. The latter asked Korinaldi to display one cartoon each week in the local member's club - and to refer to the week's events in the Kibbutz, national, or world arena. In most of the drawings, Corinaldi uses suggestive associations - real or metaphorical - with a smiling look at the various manifestations of the collective identity. The book brings together the series accompanied by detailed texts on the drawings by the artist, and a comprehensive curatorial text by curator Galia Bar‑Or.
- Design: Noam Schechter
- Editing: Avraham Milgram
- Texts: Vittorio Corinaldi, Galia Bar-Or
- Language editing: Betty Vibranovski
- Copies: 300
- Pages: 85
- Type of binding: Soft Cover
- Dimensions (cm): 23X21
- Type of printing: Offset
- Publication: Dror - Past and Present
- Place of publication: Israel
- Supported by: Dror - Past and Present
- Book photography: Leafing Magazine
Vittorio Corinaldi was born in 1931 in Milan, Italy. In 1939 his family was forced to leave and immigrate to Brazil following the anti-Semitic legislation enacted by Mussolini's fascist regime. He studied architecture and urban planning at the University of Sao Paulo. By the end of World War II, he joined the ranks of the Zionist-Pioneer-Socialist youth movement "Ha-Dror", and in 1955 immigrated to Israel with his friends and settled in Kibbutz Bror Hayil in the northern Negev. He lived there with his wife Yafa for 40 years. Corinaldi worked in the planning department of the Kibbutz Movement and was the office's chief architect for 10 years. He was involved in many projects, including planning residential buildings, educational institutions, public buildings, sports facilities, and urban and regional planning.
