Monumental ceramic panel "Arte e Mestieri"

The ceramic panel is located in the atrium of our school and made by Tommaso Cascella in 1952. Generations of students were formed under its auspice. Students who, like a flooded river, run at its feet every day, look at it but do not see it. They do not see the many painted faces of young people whose eyes, eager to learn, pursue formulas or drawings while teachers, teachers of life, educate to the love of knowledge. The feeling that pervades the work almost exalts the sacredness of the environment in which it is located, creating an indelible link between what is narrated and the everyday life that flows alongside. And it is precisely this link that the pupils really want to rediscover and rekindle, adopting the work because they realized that the school is a fundamental part of the world in which they live and, despite being a place in the city that each of them lives for a limited time of the duration of the cycle of studies, it remains the place where they are formed and where they are the foundations for building the citizens of tomorrow. An adoption that aims to enhance the value not only artistic of the work, but also strongly evocative of the educational value that it transmits: the love for culture. A testimony, therefore, that cannot fall into the oblivion of indifference, but that deserves to be transmitted to future generations.