With the collaboration of Fondazione Culturale San Fedele of Milano

An exhibition area specifically set up to host artists' works realised during the fourth edition of the APPROACHING PATHS: CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS FACING THE CHRISTIAN MYSTERY. The glorious body of the Risen One is the theme on which Deborah Fella, Ismaele Nones, and Jacopo Zambello have committed themselves supervised by Andrea Dall'Asta s.j. and Paolo Sacchini in an effort to encourage a contemporary value in sacred art. Themes such as the meeting with the Risen One, the beauty of the Glorious Body, and life beyond death, are all central elements of the Christian experience. They all are gathered in Gospel pages on which the young artists were called to reflect and meditate. Discover the Paths of 2024

In response to that tension toward a noble simplicity in the liturgy and its supplies proposed by the Second Vatican Council and still not fully understood, the Scientific Committee of DEVOTIO proposes a selection of production to enhance companies that offer liturgical objects that make the essentiality of forms a way of expressing the richness of the Gospel message of the liturgy. For the upcoming Jubilee, the selection concerns the Christological signs of the procession such as: the processional cross, the candlesticks, the Gospel Book, the bishop's crozier, the thurible with the boat.

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On the occasion of the 800th Anniversary of the stigmata of St. Francis, the community of the Franciscan Sanctuary of La Verna together with Centro studi per l’architettura sacra della Fondazione Lercaro, proposed a competition addressed to young project designers for a prayer chapel to be built in the La Verna forest. The competition was preceded by a workshop that engaged the architects in a reflection on the architectural features and spirituality of Christian liturgical and prayer spaces. The exhibition will display all the twenty-nine submitted projects. We would like to thank the community of the Franciscan Shrine of La Verna and Centro studi per l’architettura sacra della Fondazione Lercaro for the kind concession of the projects that will be displayed.

A set of tapestries depicting the seven works of corporal mercy (feeding the hungry men, giving drink to the thirsty ones, clothing the naked ones, housing pilgrims, visiting the sick ones, visiting prisoners, burying dead men) created for the Bergamo Cathedral. All the works are taken from the famous text of Matthew 25, 31-46, which, besides giving the exhibition its title, has inspired much of the iconographic imagination around the theme of the Last Judgement.

All the tapestries reproduce drawings made by Andrea Mastrovito on commission from the Youth Pastoral Service of the Italian Episcopal Conference in occasion of the Jubilee of Mercy.

The artist, questioned about the possibility of re-proposing "his" works of Mercy within this exhibition experience, proposed a new woven edition, following an ancient custom typical of ancient cathedrals. These tapestries, after a careful technical expertise, were made by a company from Bergamo that deals with liturgical confections (Ecumenicus di Leffe).

We would like to thank Fondazione Adriano Bernareggi for the kind concession of the works.

A CONSULTING POINT proposed by Dies Domini - Centro Studi per l'architettura sacra e la città, Fondazione Card. Giacomo Lercaro is always open to support priests and pastoral workers who want to discuss specific cases of management of liturgical spaces.