The Milanese exhibition is the second stage of an itinerary that began with an extraordinary preview, from October 16 to November 21, 2024, at the Hendrick Christian Andersen Museum in Rome, and will conclude at the Palazzo della Cultura in Reggio Calabria, from February 8 to April 27, 2025.

The over 80 works that make up the exhibition, ordered according to a chronological and thematic criterion, come from two different processes. The first resulted from two intersecting investigations carried out by the R.O.S. of the Carabinieri and the Valutaria Police Unit of the Guardia di Finanza, for a large-scale tax fraud linked to an international money laundering network. The second is the result of a confiscation against an individual fully integrated into the organized crime circuit and actively engaged in illicit economic activities.

The exhibition allows you to trace the developments of art from the first half of the 20th century to the early years of the 21st century, focusing on the evolution of expressive languages and artistic currents of the time.

Among these, you will find the Novecento group with Mario Sironi (Abstract Composition - Urban Scene with Carriage, Multiplication II, first half of the 20th century), the Metaphysical with authors such as Giorgio de Chirico (Piazza d'Italia, first half of the 20th century), and Carlo Carrà (Shack on the Shore, 1955), the Transavanguardia of Sandro Chia (Ossa fossa cassa, 1990; Cupido, 1996), Enzo Cucchi (Autostrada del Pensiero, 1997), Mimmo Paladino and the New Roman School with Bruno Ceccobelli, Piero Pizzi Cannella, Gianni Dessì, Nunzio Di Stefano, along with experiences such as geometric and informal abstractionism, Keith Haring's mural art (Kh mural, 1989), Christo's land art, and the genre of artist's books like Pier Paolo Calzolari's Cantata Bluia Libro dore.

Exhibition setup photos: Andrea Scuratti, Municipality of Milan