More than twenty artists, more than twenty works, many of which are site-specific: EMOTION takes the audience on a journey of emotions so that they can feel many, many more.

Surprise, confusion, desire, joy, fear, anticipation, anguish, happiness, pride, excitement, nostalgia, admiration, relief, tranquility, embarrassment. How many emotions inspire an artist? And how many are held within the artwork?

And what does a spectator experience in front of that artwork? How many emotions remain over time and how many change and how do they change? When dealing with emotions, there are more questions than answers, there are always more emotions than certainties.

A three-meter-high mushroom welcomes and invites you on a journey, it had already happened in a fairy tale, in another journey, in another world, in another wonder. This time the mushroom is by Carsten Höller and the journey is in art. This is how EMOTION begins: contemporary art tells emotions, to continue with much more, with other emotions.

It continues with the amazement of finding oneself in front of the towering figures of Luigi Mainolfi, in the external cloister, walking on an ocean floor; in the disorientation of the imaginary cathedrals of Piero Pizzi Cannella and in the wonder of his Camera Picta inspired by Raphael; with the enchantment of the luminous and sonorous refractions of the aurora borealis recreated by the interactive work of Alessandro Sciaraffa; with the attraction towards the bewitched forest of the video installation by Masbedo (Nicolo Massazza and Jacopo Bedogni) or the hypnotic and concentric attraction of Paolo Scirpa's neon ludo scopes.

A journey of emotions that becomes a relationship and interaction among visitors thanks to the environment of Gregor Schneider; a universe of colors through the decomposable prisms of the Korean artist Kimsooja; a dreamlike microcosm of possible and impossible visions of Tony Oursler; the large figures of superheroes reimagined by Adrian Tranquilli up to the site-specific project of Nedko Solakov that brings back to the dimension of narrative in a witty, at times ironic key.

And if the ceiling, the floor, and the walls were enveloped by a forest of brambles and dragonflies by Pietro Ruffo, what emotion would you feel? And if you could walk among the Herms of Luigi Ontani feeling part of them? And if the intention of Laure Prouvost, with her video installation and the large mechanical chandelier, was to make you experience a paradisiacal ecstasy, would you surrender? And what curiosity moves the visitor to explore, investigate, and try to discover in the still lifes, also created thanks to artificial intelligence, of Matt Collishaw the hidden meanings?

Eva Jospin puts her emotions into cardboard landscapes and architectures; Annette Messager drops them from the ceiling, dedicating them to the human body, through photographs in fishing nets, colored shapes, and a large Pinocchio; the collective AES + F in what it defines as social psychoanalysis reveals and explores the values, vices, and conflicts of contemporary global culture; Subodh Gupta uses objects to evoke memories and finally Paul Morrison, with his neo-romantic and pop-naturalist drawings, leads to unexpected landscapes and emotions.