The " Signs of Peace " exhibition is the crucial moment of a journey with Crac Puglia and the Rocco Spani Onlus Foundation, putting on the table topics of universal relevance such as rights, ecology, cultures and literatures in the constant perspective of contemporaneity and art.

The work carried out in all these years by Maestro Giulio De Mitri with the CRAC Puglia ( Research Center for Contemporary Art ) and by Giovanna Tagliaferro with the Rocco Spani Onlus Foundation highlight how necessary it is to work to build an integrated public system. Building common projects both among the many private systems and between private and public systems becomes the challenge of the future to overcome any self-referentiality and determine real growth, because where above all the public system does not arrive there are realities of innovators who can be strategic allies to improve people, territories and communities.

We owe a debt of gratitude to the CRAC and the Foundation, which have often represented a defense against the dispersion of many human beings but also of our cultural heritage. The experience of "cultural afternoons" at CRAC and the exhibition are the fruit of the intertwining that we wanted to undertake between beauty and creativity in a civil key, to highlight some of the priorities necessary to build a just future.

Speaking on the occasion of this exhibition " Signs of Peace " we cannot fail to refer to the international circumstances that instead bring us back to the tragedy and destruction of war. In the heart of Europe an entire nation has been besieged with unprecedented violence, bringing destruction and death, undermining the idea that there is an international order and security capable of avoiding tendencies of supremacy like that of Russia. In recent decades there has been no lack of very violent attacks on democracy, equality, individual freedoms, freedom of expression and religion as well as the self-determination of communities.