The exhibition by Gianluca Costantini, created for Amnesty International Italy, opens on September 10, 2026, at the Municipal Auditorium in Orgosolo as part of the second edition of the Orgosolo Film Festival. Sixty years of struggles for human rights told through sixty faces.
On Thursday, September 10, 2026, at 5:00 p.m., during the opening of the second edition of the Orgosolo Film Festival, “60 Faces for 60 Years”, an exhibition by Gianluca Costantini created for Amnesty International Italy, will open to the public.
The exhibition, installed on the first floor of the Municipal Auditorium in Orgosolo, is curated by Vittorio Cannas, co-artistic director of BìFoto Fest – International Photography Festival in Sardinia. It will remain open throughout the Festival during the hours in which activities are taking place at the Auditorium.
“60 Faces for 60 Years” grew out of the project collected in the book Human Rights Portraits: 60 Years of Faces and Struggles with Amnesty International, published in 2023 by BeccoGiallo, with drawings by Gianluca Costantini and texts by Riccardo Noury, spokesperson for Amnesty International Italy.
Written by Riccardo Noury,
illustrated by Gianluca Costantini
Publication date: 13 January 2023
ISBN: 9788833142531
Format: 25 × 25 cm
Pages: 144
Hardcover, full colour
€24.00
Sixty portraits trace sixty years of human rights history. Women and men who, in different places and at different moments, chose to stand against dictatorships, wars, repression, discrimination and violations of fundamental freedoms. Activists, journalists, dissidents, prisoners of conscience and people who became symbols of struggles that have crossed borders and generations.
Together, their faces tell a history shaped not only by dates and events, but by the people who lived through those events, fought against injustice and, in some cases, paid for their commitment with their freedom or their lives.
The project grew out of an understanding of drawing as a tool for testimony and intervention. To draw a face means, for a moment, to remove it from the constant flow of news, to give it back a name and to make a story visible. Over the years, many of these portraits have continued to circulate far beyond the place and moment in which they were created, moving from social media to demonstrations, from campaigns for the release of prisoners to exhibitions and public spaces.
As Gianluca Costantini writes in the introduction to Human Rights Portraits: “When I press the send button, the drawing begins a life of its own and enters the lives of other people. It often appears in the hands of people thousands of kilometres away. When that happens, I know that the drawing is doing its job and, in its own small way, changing the course of that story.”
Bringing these sixty faces to Orgosolo has a particular significance. The exhibition enters a place whose visual identity is deeply connected to public painting, memory, political denunciation and collective storytelling. Portraits dedicated to international struggles for human rights encounter a town where images painted on walls have, for decades, been a means of telling stories of conflict, injustice, resistance and freedom.
The exhibition accompanies the entire second edition of the Orgosolo Film Festival, taking place from September 10 to 13, 2026. The Festival will also present a Special Mention by Amnesty International Italy to one of the films in competition.
“60 Faces for 60 Years”
Gianluca Costantini
curated by Vittorio Cannas
created for Amnesty International Italy
September 10–13, 2026
Municipal Auditorium of Orgosolo
Corso Repubblica 338, Orgosolo, Sardinia, Italy
Opening: Thursday, September 10, at 5:00 p.m.
The exhibition can be visited during the hours in which Orgosolo Film Festival activities are taking place at the Municipal Auditorium.
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