Figlio, figlio mio
(Son, my son)
2026
The project is born from a collaboration between Il Forno di Calzolari e OSA | nuove visioni tra arte e impresa with the aim of bringing art into the company as a virtuous practice, one that strengthens team cohesion and honours the human dimension of the business.
Il Forno di Calzolari is one of Bologna's finest artisan bakeries: an organic grain supply chain built together with a community of farmers, sourdough starter, and ancient wheat varieties grown at altitude. A company that already carries within itself the values of respect for the land, for people, and for the territory, and that has chosen to open itself to art in order to make those values more visible.
Figlio, figlio mio is conceived and curated by artist Silla Guerrini, who has spent years exploring the archetypes of nature, nourishment, and life. She has designed a series of relational art actions taking place throughout 2026, following the cyclical rhythms of the seasons and of wheat.
The bakery's 30 employees become co-authors of the project: they sowed a shared field in winter, kept vigil over the night-time baking in spring, and posed with the bread in gestures of tender care before the lens of photographer Enzo Sbarra.
The resulting images, of extraordinary visual power, are displayed in a diffuse exhibition along the 10 kilometres of the Mangirò 2026 route, the twenty-first edition of the food and wine event organised by Calzolari in Monghidoro: on the outer walls of ancient farmhouses, as witnesses or guardian spirits of local history, and as postcards, fragments of memory to take away.
During Mangirò 2026, the 500 participants are invited to take part in the collective action "Dove il vento si ferma e ascolta" ("Where the wind stops and listens"), conceived by Silla Guerrini, in dialogue with the site-specific work INNECTO by Chizu Kobayashi (Niigata, Giappone, 1978), at the final stop of the route, Rifugio Fantorno.
Figlio, figlio mio continues with two further relational actions — one in September — and concludes at the winter solstice: the moment when light reaches its lowest point, holding within it the promise of a new beginning in a perpetual cycle.
The project generates new relational dynamics within the company, returning to each employee an awareness of the deep value of their everyday work.
"I believe art has the capacity to reveal — to bring to light what is in plain sight yet so often remains invisible. This project shows us the true force that drives a company: the human beings who inhabit it and give it life. I think this is the most important aspect of Figlio, figlio mio, and of what art, in connection with a business, is capable of activating." Silla Guerrini
October 2025
Rebirth through art
An inclusive experience designed to support women who have faced breast cancer
The “Rinascere con l'Arte” (Rebirth through Art) project was born from a collaboration between OSA and Komen Italia to offer women a tool for inner healing. The idea is based on a revolutionary concept: the human being as a work of art, where true transformation takes place in the creative process, not in the final product.
It was conceived and created by Silla Guerrini, a visual artist specializing in women's issues and relational art, together with Francesca Meiners, a psychologist, psychotherapist in training, and yoga and meditation teacher. Silla and Francesca guided the participants through a process of creative expression and psychological support to accompany women in this delicate process of transformation, a tool for healing and renewal.
The project, which took place at the Bellaria Hospital in Bologna, in the multifunctional space of Komen Italia DONNE AL CENTRO, consisted of four experimental training sessions that accompanied the participants in creating a relational art action.
The culmination of the journey saw the women themselves as the authors of the work. In relational art, in fact, the work is only completed through the active participation of the people involved, transforming every gesture into an act of conscious creation.
In addition to undergoing therapeutic experiences and experimenting with different forms of artistic expression during the meetings, the participants created clay artifacts, symbols of their process of rebirth, which they then “sowed” into the earth in a collective gesture of trust and regeneration.
This project demonstrates that art can be a powerful tool for transformation, capable of turning pain into beauty, fragility into strength, and the experience of illness into an opportunity for rebirth.
“You are the healing. You are the transformation. You are the masterpiece.”
Project realized with the support of Komen Italia and OSA | new visions between art and business.
mtn | museo temporaneo navile
Ph. Credit: Auroreaudiovisivi, Courtesy: mtn | museo temporaneo navile
2019 / 2022
22 exhibitions | 99 artists
245 pages of press review
mtn | museo temporaneo navile is a project of artists Silla Guerrini and Marcello Tedesco, director and curator, supported by Valdadige Sistemi Urbani and under the Patronage of the Municipality of Bologna in Collaboration with the Navile District.
It stems from the desire to create an experimental center dedicated to art in the heart of the Navile district, enhancing the potential of one of the most populated and multi-ethnic areas of the city of Bologna.
“Thinking about a museum rooted in and in dialogue with the urban context seemed to us an extraordinary idea, something valuable to offer to the inhabitants of the area, first of all, but also to all the citizens of Bologna.”
The museum, conceived as a kind of organism that fits harmoniously into the life of the city, is thus not a place to celebrate cultural phenomena in their partiality in an abstract way, but a vital center where to convey and share artistic experiences that can rhythmically dialogue with contemporaneity.
mtn | museo temporaneo navile in four years of activity has contributed to the sales of Trilogia Navile, in Bologna. Thanks to the spillover of value to the territory that art generates, the project has fostered an increase in the perceived value of properties that were previously unsold.
ATI - Mariani Thermo Group | 50°
Ph. Credits: Mirco Ricci
May 11-14, 2023
“Air, Water and Fire,
50 Years of Passion”
The exhibition, focused on the historical memory of the company, emotionally involved the employees and created a strong moment of unity for the sales force and the entire company.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the company's founding, ATI - Mariani Thermo Group organized a series of celebratory events including, at the Damasco Art Exhibition gallery in downtown Cesena, the exhibition, “Air, Water and Fire, 50 Years of Passion.” Artist Silla Guerrini curated the exhibition and created a site-specific installation entitled “La selva” using products from the Romagnola company's smoke sector. An unprecedented enhancement that generated an interesting shift from functional to artwork in the product.
The Mariani brothers say that the idea of linking art to business activities proves to be an interesting strategy that allows the same content to be shared through a transversal gaze and action.
“For the 50th anniversary of the founding of ATI, we were accompanied by Silla Guerrini through a path of memories, feelings and emotions that we could hardly have brought out on our own. Sharing work activities generate important bonds between people.”
Fabio and Marco Mariani
