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“Artists select scenes from the world, imparting on the vision a context and a limit. They isolate these images from the world, showing them to other eyes and opening new connections. This world, observed and presented, is not a whole reality but rather a small portion of the world and an interpretation upon this isolated reality. This happens when behind the art there is also a theory – and in general this is the case. Perhaps today, besides photography and video, a manual figurative art like painting - which is considered less and less a tool for investigating reality, can be used in such a way as to return our capacity to see. This is not just the mere physical act of seeing but also an act of comprehension and action, of thought and speculation, of learning and contemplation.” (by Paola Tine, Opening from the exhibition  “Windows to the World: the City, the Crowd, the People” 10-17 March 2014 Siena).

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