After the creation of the Incancellabile Vittoria, the monumental installation presented in October 2020 in the Brescia subway to celebrate the return to the city of the Winged Victory, Emilio Isgrò is reinforcing the link with the city with a new large and original project which, from 23 June 2022 to 8 January 2023, will involve the most important cultural sites of Brescia: from the Santa Giulia Museum to the Capitolium , from the Roman Theater to the Renaissance Cloister, to the gardens of the Viridarium.

The exhibition entitled Isgrò cancels Brixia , curated by Marco Bazzini, intends to emphasize the dialogue that is established between archeology and contemporary art, between history and the present, between classical culture and its persistence in our time with works, all of environmental dimensions, purposely conceived and created by the artist for this occasion, in close dialogue with the evocative spaces that host them.

The review will start from the central hall of the Capitolium, a real epigraphic museum that will host the work Le api di Virgilio. A multitude of flying bees will erase the inscriptions present on the Roman epigraphs placed on the wall: a spectacular installation, created with the most futuristic digital techniques, where the erasure will manifest itself in the liveliness of the moving images.

The complex of the Santa Giulia Museum will host three more episodes of the exhibition project. In the enchantment of the Renaissance Cloister, arranged on the lawn, one will meet the harmonium of the mad larks, an enigmatic and monumental musical instrument, around whose perimeter runs a sequence of piano keys. In the silence of the place, the aria of Casta diva from Norma by Vincenzo Bellini will resound, one of the most powerful works of the Italian lyric tradition, set in Roman Gaul. This work, presented for the first time in Brescia, will be created by the Brescia Musei Foundation in co-production with Arte Sella, the important contemporary art park in nature in Val di Sella, Valsugana, (TN) inside of whose exhibition routes, at the end of the exhibition, it will be permanently placed in the open space identified by the artist himself.

The exhibition halls of the Santa Giulia Museum will also host an unprecedented cycle of paintings entitled Brixia come Atene. Thirteen large canvases where the illustrated pages of a book on the daily life of an ancient Greek polis have been erased in white.