Local and global. Man and nature. Limits and eternity. The section “Nunacarte. Works by Piedmont artists on Nunavut paper”, supervised by Ivana Mulatero, seems to want to confuse. Twenty-one Piedmont artists measured themselves with a material that comes from faraway: the Nunavut recycled paper.

The perspective created in the meeting between simple material and exuberant creativity is in reality fascinating. We appear to see the artist exploring, researching and finally understanding the essence of the material so deeply, that it becomes part of himself. Results: these works speak in a surprising way about the thirst that induces man to produce art. And to continue searching without respite.

If it is undeniable that modernity has technified man, making him ever more protagonist and pray of globality, it is at the same time manifest that the reference to man, as a person, cannot be evaded. Even if desired.

The Eskimo faces a hostile nature, the artist faces a new material. Finally finding a balance that is not simple coexistence but complete fusion.