Out of saloon
04/04/2019
Sea for Arroyabe
21/05/2019Since 1993, a cycle of artworks dedicated to migrant’s “voyages of hope” across the Mediterranean See.
Browsing Repubblica of yesterday, I became acquainted of the arrival to Venice of the well-known fishing boat full of 700 migrants, which shipwrecked in Sicily in 2015, and which will be shown now at the Venice Biennale.
This is an interesting project which creates a historical and human memory, and which heavily demands on us about the destiny of thousands people, who run away from wars, starvation and poverty to find death among the silent waves of the Mediterranean See.
“Nuovi Arrivi” is a cycle of artworks born in 1994 and still on going, which tries to tell migrant’s “voyages of hope” across the Mediterranean See, by means of the transfiguration of the myth of “whales as savers”, “marine turtles as savers” and, generally, “inhabitants of sea as savers”: some legends tell about the foundation of whole cities and villages by men who came from the sea on the back of cetaceans…
Who knows, if the mythological pietas of the “inhabitants of the sea” can touch the heart and the consciousness of the “inhabitants of the earth” and it can bring different scenarios.
