The door overall depicts the chapter gifts given to the Abbesses in Conversano at the time of their settlement, as reported in the ancient volume 'Capitular Conclusions' of the Church of San Leone. First two hares and two hens, then ten pairs of pigeons and finally money, become the pretext for an emblematic composition of the brink of the extinction of the Anthropocene and the prevalence of money over gifts 'in kind'. Animals today are reduced to mere objects, as in intensive farming, selected and mistreated, they lie hanging to lick a pile of wads of money, a simulacrum of corruption linked to the attitude of destructive hypocrisy that the big names in the agri-food sector have towards the health of consumers and towards the environment, in fact money is flown over by pigeons like hawks over carrion. The homage to the Abbess thus becomes the transfiguration of the corruption of the world caused by man. A dead pigeon lies on the ground, in the indifference of the resignation of its peers. The colors are the red of blood and the gold of money, in a composition that recalls the lifting of the Cross on Calvary.
Vito Antonio Lippolis
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