Clifford Chance

In your Arms – Noemi Boccasile

Our artistic journey starts with a selection from the collection 'In your Arms' by Noemi Boccasile, a young talented photographer who have recently completed the Biennial Professional Course of Photography at Istituto Italiano di Fotografia.

This work represents a photographic tale of a young couple, of their daily moments, exchanges and achievements. It's a tiptoe narrative in their intimacy, a dance of chemistry between lovers. Aurelio and Riccardo are the protagonists of this project which is an expression of their individuality and union. With gestures and attentions, they express the love that accompanies them through mutual care. After the first quarantine lived separately, they rediscover their love. Finally, there is a newfound normality...hugs, daily routine, kisses and caresses. Through the spontaneity of their feelings they express the absolute right to love. They are one more reason to eradicate all prejudice.

Figures of bread – Matteo Lucca

The virtual exhibition continues with Matteo Lucca's artistic research through his 'Figures of bread', a review of sculptures, made with unleavened bread, representing hands that touch and shake, a simple gesture that symbolizes, in many cultures, the crucial moment of meeting and the start of a relationship between people. A gesture made dangerous by the pandemic outbreak, that we will hopefully be able to perform again in the near future, with renewed enthusiasm and lightheartedness.

Matteo Lucca's sculptures stems from a reflection on giving oneself to the other as nourishment. The creative process comes from a series of suggestions in which the overcoming of one's ego takes place by offering one's body.

Under the drape – Piero Figura

We close our artistic journey with Piero Figura's draped paintings. The artist, a proud architect and multidisciplinary artist, supporter of the LGBT+ community, has always promoted fairness and equality through his art. After a life dedicated to design, illustration and scenography, he started exploring painting in an original and profound way. His background as a designer is reflected in his paintings in which there is almost a sense of three-dimensionality.

Iconic canvases, representing draped fabrics, wrap to create folds and movements: lines turn into polka dots, both of the same red and green colors to symbolize Love and Hope. This is the artist's conceptual way to express change, shown as a transformation within the society through everybody's inclusion, regardless of their sexual orientation. The sinuous fabric symbolizes protection from discrimination, injustice, ignorance and wickedness and the folds and movements of the fabric suggest the difficulties and problems that society is made of and from which it is not easy to escape.                   

The 'Stone' artwork represents a stone wrapped in a striped fabric. The fabric's function is to protect it from evil and man's wickedness: this Stone cannot lapidate anyone. It is the 'Change'.