Third leg of “We Love Art” Made in Italy contemporary art tour

MILAN, February 11, 2022 – The artwork inspired by the Terzo Valico dei Giovi – Genoa Juncture project will be on display in New York on the third leg of the world tour of the “We Love Art. Vision and Creativity Made in Italy” exhibition promoted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in partnership with Fondazione Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP). The exhibition will be open to the public until February 28 at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura. The pieces within it tell the stories and values of eight large Italian companies by as many young artists, with Webuild followed by Lulù Nuti from Rome.

The exhibition is an homage to the strength and creativity of the Italian industry, an opportunity to celebrate through art the productive excellence that represents Italy in the world. It has already travelled to Seoul and Chongqing, with New York as it latest stop before moving to Mexico City, Cairo and Berlin.

For Webuild, “Too Much Heat, Nothigh to Eat” is the name of the piece by Nuti that interprets the Terzo Valico dei Giovi-Geona Junction, a high-speed railway project that will connect Genoa and Milan. It is an essential part of the Rhine-Alpine corridor of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) that will connect the port of Genoa with Rotterdam. It is the biggest sustainable mobility project under construction in Italy. The project, which was visited by Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi on February 9, is being built by a General Contractor led by Webuild for Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (FS Italiane Group) under the aegis of Extraordinary Commissioner Calogero Mauceri.

The work is the result of the artist’s experience visiting a construction site of the Terzo Valico, a complex project with 30 tunnelling areas at 12 work sites located between the Piedmont and Liguria regions. There are more than 5,000 people and 2,300 small- and medium-sized companies (directly and indirectly) working on the project around the clock, seven days a week. Approximately 70% of the railway will be inside tunnels. It is an infrastructure project that transmits strength, complexity and represents an example of sustainability in the construction phases with particular attention to the environment and safety.

The artist wanted to transmit some of these elements through her work, transforming the vision of the tunnel-boring machine, a great mechanical mole used for excavating inside the mountain, into an Ouroboros, the snake that bites its own tail: an ancient symbol of universal energy that is consumed and renewed.

“We Love Art. Vision and Creativity Made in Italy” is part of Webuild’s Culture Agenda, which the Group has for years used to promote culture in the world. In March, Webuild joins the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome and Palazzo Ducale in Genoa for “Superbarocco”, an emotional exhibit that will connect the two cities to explain Genovese Baroque, one of the periods of greatest splendour for Italy and especially Genoa.