Also for 2026, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore renews the Itineraries of Art and Spirituality project, organizing a contemporary art exhibition, Macerie - What remains, what is born, within the academic spaces of the Universities of Brescia, Cremona, Milan, Piacenza and Rome.
In the two Brescia locations, in Via Trieste and Via della Garzetta, the exhibition will be open from 12 March to 15 April.
Born in 2005, the Itineraries of Art and Spirituality project proposes every year themes capable of offering food for thought on the reality that surrounds us, using contemporary art as a tool of investigation. Since 2017, students of the University have been entrusted with the role of curators, with the opportunity to work in direct contact with the artists, thanks to the collaboration between the Pastoral Center, coordinated by Father Enzo Viscardi, and the Department of History, Archaeology and Art History, with the contribution of professors Elena Di Raddo, Mariacristina Maccarinelli and Michela Valotti. For the Brescia campus, the exhibition is organized and promoted under the patronage of the Department of Historical, Philological and Social Sciences.
This year's exhibition, entitled Rubble - What remains, what is born, deals with the theme of the consequences of war. Starting from the poem San Martino del Carso by Giuseppe Ungaretti, the reflections focused not only on the material destruction of war, but also on the inner devastation that the conflict leaves. Among the noise of silences, the emptiness that gets deeper and deeper and the wounds that leave their mark, the rubble of a humanity that, despite the ruins, continues to persist, emerges. The exhibition itinerary develops in the cloisters and corridors of the University, transforming academic spaces into places for meeting, reflection and dialogue. Through color and charcoal drawings, collages, photographs, installations, three-dimensional works, paintings and sculptures, students are invited to reflect on the present, to confront the pain and scars left by the war. Art thus becomes an instrument of memory and transformation, capable of bringing out awareness and renewed sensitivity even from the deepest wounds.
This year's 14 contemporary artists are: Valentina Achilli, Vanshika Agrawal, Adriano Caverzasio, Fabrizio Dusi, Erk14, Marta Ferrarini, Salvatore Garzillo, Gabriele Micalizzi, Luca Pancrazzi, Giampaolo Parrilla, Lorenzo and Simona Perrone, Mauro Seresini, Silvia Stucky.
Luca Pancrazzi is the artist presented in the spaces of the Brescia headquarters in via Trieste 17/B and in via della Garzetta 48.
