June 11, 2010 - Until the July 25, 2010, at the Galleria Sara Zanin Z2O, madder, the exhibition Laboratorio Saccardi, A rewriting of the iconographic apparatus of the truck that tells the raw actuality of mafia massacres: Portella della Ginestra, the murder of Peppino Impastato, the Ustica disaster, the massacres of Capaci and via d'Amelio. 
The Sicilian artists collective, for their first exhibition in Rome, have a Sicilian cart stained wood, painting the facts of the Mafia's most sensational recent Sicilian history, the unsolved mysteries of the political history of our country.
symbol of Sicily, the cart is traditionally decorated with mythological representations of the deeds of the leaders belonging to the tradition of chivalry "of the Paladins of France, decorated with arabesques and geometric ornaments of every kind. The representations, a time, they also function to summarize the events and news stories for those who could neither read nor write.
The rewrite of the iconographic apparatus of the truck driven by Laboratorio Saccardi said news of the brutal killings of mafia: Portella della Ginestra the murder of Peppino Impastato, the Ustica disaster, the massacres of Capaci and via d'Amelio. The facts with which the artists are measured are the result of a thorough knowledge of historical facts, and a spontaneous and fierce criticism to contemporary events, always been the basis of artistic research group.
Laboratorio Saccardi tackles the narrative of these events using only white and black, the cart depriving its unique richness of color.
The "new champions" of justice, contestants, judges and ordinary citizens, not only victims of armed robbery of the mafia, but the most dangerous mafia culture, ingrained in society Sicilian as in that of the whole country, are the contemporary heroes portrayed in the cart. masciddà ri The stories painted on (the sides of the truck) are accompanied by five knights Sicilian poetry (Quasimodo, Pirandello, Sciascia, Bufalino, Small) who, through their art and the "madness of reflection" continue to sing Beauty and the rebirth of the earth for centuries plagued by crime mafia.
Between 2009 and 2010, Laboratorio Saccardi has worked with middle schools in the town of Terrasini, near Palermo, children have actively participated in the definition of the themes to be represented on the cart through a series of educational workshops kept in the Museo Regional Sicilian cart.
On display are also exposed some ceramic pots, from the typical oval shape, according to Sicilian tradition, decorated with an irreverent language, explicit and immediately recognizable.
The exhibition is accompanied by an essay by Laura Barreca.
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