The role of the artist is not to remain aloof and silent, but to ‘shout out’ and denounce social injustice and injustice through his acute view of the world.
Fondato sul lavoro, with its twenty-six works spanning different eras, it aims to bear witness to issues that are as urgent as ever today.
Work is at the heart of the social pact, the founding principle of the Republic and the driving force behind the advancement of society. But what work? For whom and at what price?
The exhibition winds its way through different languages and epochs, from the 4th century B.C. to the present, interweaving the artistic heritage of the past with the urgencies of the present.
The Anonymous Ceramist Atticus, Gerhard van Steenwijck and the Chinese Ceramist of the Yuan Dynasty offer a fresco on the history of domestic work, which often forced people to remain silent and invisible.
Renato Guttuso's Female Nude, with its crude and direct style, recounts the social condition of women with a precise focus: the body as object, often marked and exploited.
Sandro Mele with Folklore Globale and Turi Rapisarda with I Mille - the Migration of Southern Workers to Northern Italy during the economic boom - fit into the groove of political and social reflection.
Lorenzo Viani, on the other hand, recounts the drama of fishermen's wives, documenting the pain and resistance of those who wait. Enterramiento de diez trabajadores by Santiago Sierra reveals the most brutal side of work: the conditions of exploitation and commodification of the human being.
And so on...