SOCIAL MEDIATION
A New Challenge for New Investors.

In engineering firms, where complex and urgent workflow requires highly-qualified and quick feedbacks, professionals tend to focus their
attention on optimizing time and problem-solving strategies, at the risk - quite too often - of losing any emotional contact with their personal projects. To exhibit pieces of art by contemporary artists who devoted themselves to sacredrelated issues just on the shared office walls can provide workers with a powerful spur to stop for a while and help them think about the real meaning of their work: daily sharing in time and efforts, as well as continuous exercising in mutual respect.
As a result, pieces of contemporary art can help a workplace environment to become a warmer location where you like to share experiences while developing your own personal projects along with your colleagues’: from plain work station the office premises turn into a vital place where one’s own personal and public life can make agree. For this very reason “Production Processes Coordinators” become “Social Mediators” summoned to play their active role in the challenging task of renewing our society, as deeply involving as sacredart-related issues can prove to be in everyone’s inner life.
A quite ambitious project indeed, which in its very abstractness finds its major strength, as it can help to foster a much needed change in our daily perspectives: to get back to see, even within the daily workplace walls, the very soul of things.

Ing. Alberto Biancheri - CEN ITALIA (Consulting Engineers Network - Milano).

THE VANGUARDS OF SACRED ART

This exhibition represents, without rhetoric, a quite extraordinary shift from History of Contemporary Art to History of Ancient Art. It is a known fact that the placement of art as visual languages and aesthetic experiences in work places and meeting environments, is a real fact belonging to history, neither only Western nor ancient. As a matter of fact, History ofArt is the outcome of a stable match between work of art and space - from churches to palaces, from universities to hospitals - all themore so since Middle Ages, through the Renaissance, until the neoclassical and the romantic ages.
To shift from the general to the specific, this project focusses on the complex expressive crossing of the “sacred” territory. As it is, works of art dealing with the idea of sacred are the output of ameeting between the art culture and the religious cultural heritage, between the creative mind’s sensitivity and the spiritual experience depth, between the interpretative variables involved in the iconographic system fruition and the various steps involved in a theological process of knowledge. As a result, the work place acquires the clear sign of a newlandscape, a territorywhere you neither breath self-centredness nor cherish escaped dreams among bad taste and gossiping, rather a place that provides an opportunity for thinking and critical reasoning.Contemporary SacredArt takes on a responsibility of witnessing and thinking, not escaping but sharing: William Xerra by his use of the word stresses the persistent incisiveness of the image as a form of miracle leading to Truth. Stefano Pizzi crosses the popular devotion heritage to rediscover its persistent qualities, while Antonio Spanedda photographs the contemporary spiritual quest by following a Good/witness line. Tarshito builds his signs following the ancestral sacred paths,Rinaldo Invernizzi opens up coloured windows along sorrow stations leading to Hope, Alberto Gianfreda holds his concept tight so that reading becomes a private action leading to knowledge by themeans of creativity and courage.

Prof. Andrea B. Del Guercio (Accademia di Belle Arti Brera - Milano)