Ciro Battiloro – Silence is a Gift MER Paper Kunsthalle Inspired by the recent tendency

Inspired by the recent tendency among architects and designers to opt out of traditional office work in favour of creating self-initiated interventions in public space

Rendered with layered washes of oil paint

In the Western historical representations of modernity

the way in which people are portrayed

Ciro Battiloro – Silence is a Gift MER Paper Kunsthalle Inspired by the recent tendencyRione Sanit (Naples), Santa Lucia (Cosenza), Torre del Greco. There are places in Southern Italy that carry scars of incurable wounds on the walls and on the flesh of its inhabitants. In those wounds lay the historical memory and the real face of people. Their names are Alfonso, Elena, Marco, Stefania, to name a few. Some are from the same districts and know each other, others dont. But they have one thing in common: theyve all met Ciro Battiloro, who