FNetti

What is the return?

What does the verb return mean?

Returning is the act of returning from a different place, far from one's own city, from one's home, but returning also means rediscovering one's roots, one's identity in an original, authentic stage.

There are so many feelings that accompany the return.

The joy of finding presences and entities dear to one another, or the resignation of a defeat; however, the return is always a moment of balance, of meditation on what has been experienced, of regrets or of strong aspirations.

The return is the end of a journey and the potential beginning of a new journey.

This exhibition is the place of return for the whole community of Santeramo and the extraordinary figure of Francesco Netti is just an opportunity to become deeply aware of one's own identity and belonging to a history and a territory of excellence.

It is not a question of looking to the past, the figure of Francesco Netti is the most modern and contemporary one can think of. A man who transmits the modernity of travel and confrontation, who makes fun of human consciousness, who emotionally transmits the landscapes of the human soul, indicating the critical value of seeing into the depths of the world.

Francesco Netti has always fully expressed the value of culture and beauty for human life and for building a new society. This exhibition not only wants to pay homage to a great artist and scholar but wants to coherently enhance and highlight the strategic and fundamental role that art, culture and beauty represent for the development of our community, an acknowledgment of the great tradition and of the great riches we have inherited from history.

A return to the authentic soul of our identity.