Roots
“Our adult world has its roots in infancy” - Melanie KLEIN, American psycologist
Carlo, born in 1937, is my grand uncle. At the end of World War II, Italy was split and devastated, therefore, after a friend's invitation he moved to Biel, Switzerland. There, he worked for almost 8 years at General Motors Co. to finally save money and moved back to build his home.
He lived in a small village in northern Italy, in the same house, which he has built in the mid 1960s.
Oliva decided to remain in Italy, working for a knife factory and Liana (my grand-mother) emigrated to Argentina in 1946…
Carlo and his parents shared the new house until they passed away. He never married.
During summers, Liana used to flight from Buenos Aires to Italy.
They gather together to remember old times, they speaked about childhood, food, religion and politics.
Carlo passed away in winter 2025, at the age of 94. Until its last days, he was living on his own.
We talked every week on the phone about politics and tennis.
Her sister Oliva passed away in late 2017.
My grandmother died at 93 years old in summer 2021, in Argentina.
This is a personal project about my roots, from where I came from as an important topic to dig deeper and to understand certain comportements to look ahead to the future with more mental clarity.
Map of Sacile with family names (ca.1890)
“The Michelin were two soldiers, militaries, frenchmen, employed by Napoleon, so, when they came to fight in this area, these two brothers abandoned [the army] and stopped in Caneva, here at 6 o 7 kilometers away. The two brothers married two sisters from Caneva, and from there, the Michelins started, here in our area, this is the tale that this professor from Vittorio Veneto found”
Voice of Mario MICHELIN (1943 - 2021)
On May 19th 1949 with only 24 years, my grand parent, Giuseppe MICHELIN, arrived in Argentina with the Campana Transatlantic.
My grandmother, Liana, arrived a year later on board Conte Biancamano cruise.
The one way trip lasted 28 days.
