Presepi Contro…
Temporary exhibition at the "Campana dei Caduti"
The exhibition is a reflection on the dramas that affect the collective sensibility, the synthesis of a year and its events in order not to forget the mistakes of the past, to learn from them and to treasure them.
Historically, artists, particularly figurative artists (and certainly not other highly esteemed members of civil society such as philosophers, priests or politicians) have not only been the truest and most profound representatives of the civil society in which they have lived and worked, but specifically the interpreters of the fears, hopes and cultural instances most felt by those societies.
In the vein of this tradition stands Muky with his ‘Nativity scenes against…’. For more than 20 years, almost every year, around October/November, Muky has reflected on the dramas that have most affected our collective sensitivity and extrapolates a theme from them. The summary of twelve months of mourning and misfortune. The ‘cover’ of an entire year. So as not to forget. On the contrary: to remember accurately, to treasure past mistakes, to reflect without preclusion and all together grow.
Artists are not politicians: they do not offer recipes, they do not organise actions. They signal, they denounce. So that, through the action of all, the construction of a better world may be given substance. But in the meantime they begin.
Muky made this speech at the end of the year because such is the synthesis, the conclusion and because there is Christmas, the emblematic moment in which, even for those who do not believe, the re-birth of the God Man becomes a metaphor for hope and commitment.
Born in Trento, she lived in Bolzano, Rome and Innsbruck. For 50 years Muky, born Wanda Berasi, worked in Faenza (RA). A poet and cultural promoter, she is above all a very active ceramist with hundreds of exhibitions and dozens of prestigious awards both in Italy and abroad. A representative of the informal, for years she has been attracted by the creation of multi-material installations in which, moreover, the ceramic element always plays a central role.
