Peace Monument

The project for the Peace Monument dates back to 1974, when the sculptor Umberto Mastroianni donated a sculpture to Cassino to commemorate the tragedy of the bombing of 15 February 1944. The Monument to Peace is a hymn to life, but also aims to keep alive the memory of the monstrosity of war.

The monumental sculpture, resting on high pedestals to make it visible from most of the Cassino plain, is intended to evoke the dramatic energy of an explosion through a tangle of tubular elements that escape from the core, invading the surrounding space. A smaller scale reproduction of the sculpture is located in the centre of Cassino, in Piazza XV Febbraio.

Mastroianni was able to endow his work with a deafening sound: the explosion of a bomb.

The Monument to Peace encapsulates the artist's distinctive style: his stroke is lacerating, intense, deep, textured, energetic, vibrant, a futurist plasticism.