“Pasquino Crupi” arrives at the Palazzo della Cultura – where it can be visited until April 27 – the exhibition “Save you. From confiscations to public collections “, plastic, emblematic and above all powerful representation” of the victory of the right on the crime “; of those who return to the territory what the others had illegally subtracted.
«Works impregnated with significant social and cultural contents; The goal is to convey as many sensitivity possible around the values of knowledge, legality and beauty “. Thus, during the presentation, Wanda Ferro, Undersecretary of State with delegation to the National Agency of assets seized and confiscated from organized crime of the Ministry of the Interior, the mayor of the Metropolitan City Giuseppe Falcomatà, Roberto Vannata, manager of Service II, museum system National and enhancement of the cultural heritage of the General Museums Directorate of the Ministry of Culture, Maria Rosaria Laganà, Director of the National Agency of the seized and confiscated assets, and Domenico Piraina, Director of Culture Area Exhibitions and Scientific Museums of the Municipality of Milan. Many personalities that at the Palazzo della Cultura – which since 2016 exposes over one hundred works of art in permanent form, part of a single confiscation carried out by the Court of Reggio Calabria in 2015 – have testified how important it is that works until yesterday under owned Exclusive of crime are today returned to the world. And how fundamental the role of artistic and environmental heritage in the construction of authentic and participatory citizenship is.
“The art that saves and the art saved”: it is the double message of the over eighty specimens of contemporary art, between painting, graphics and sculpture, which come from the confiscations made by the public authority to the organized underworld and which bear the signature of masters Like Giorgio De Chirico, Mario Sironi, Lucio Fontana, Massimo Campigli, Salvador Dalí, Andy Warhol, Mario Schifano, Robert Rauschenberg, Christo. There is also the oil on canvas of the Messina Giuseppe Migneco who portrays a fish seller while turning his back to the sea (1972).
A real journey into art from the first half of the twentieth century up to the early 2000s that crosses the evolution of the expressive languages and artistic currents of the time and recalls the commitment of the institutions (among these, the Carabinieri Command Protection of the Cultural Heritage and the Guardia di Finanza) also in the verification of the authenticity and cultural interest of the recovered heritage.
The exhibition is part of the “Art for the Culture of Legality” project, by the Directorate General Museums, of the National Agency of assets seized and confiscated from organized crime (ANBSC), the Municipality of Milan and the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria, in collaboration with the Ministry of the Interior.
The Reggina review is the third stage of an itinerary that opened with an extraordinary preview, from 16 October to 21 November, at the Casa Museo Hendrik Christian Andersen in Rome, continued with the exhibition at Palazzo Reale in Milan from 3 December to January 26, which recorded more than 20 thousand visitors.
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