The exhibition (RE)VERSVS. Reuse and Redemption in the Patrimony of the Vatican Library and in
the Art of Sidival Fila is the result of a profound reflection by the artist and the curators
of the Vatican Library on the theme of reuse - redemption conceived as two different and at
times opposing possibilities of using and valorising an ancient or simply previous or
extraneous material in a new and different way. It presents a recovery of fragments and
discards of manuscripts textiles marbles and other materials that in the case of reuse
defines their new purpose while in the case of redemption celebrates them in themselves in
their ontological value regardless of their possible new utility. The exhibition concludes in
the Sala Barberini with the site-specific installation 'Natura Artificialis' a work that
represents the Brazilian artist's integral vision the starting point of his critical view of
the human race and the erroneous idea of nature seen solely as being at the service of man.
Ed.: Cristiano Grisogoni. Text: Giacomo Cardinali Emanuele Coccia Emanuele Dattilo Simona De
Crescenzo Delio Vania Proverbio.
