Today: the Law Is the Same for All: the Chastened, 1982 (tempera, oxides, pencil, ink...

Today: the Law Is the Same for All: the Chastened (Oggi: la legge è uguale per tutti: i pentiti), by Mario Ceroli, 1982, 20th Century, tempera, oxides, pencil, ink on panel, 265 x 320 cm Detail. Particular of one of the works by the Italian artist and set designer, drawn upon wooden boards, representing naked men faced backwards hug together, in a penitent mood; tha character who sits down on the right is likewise penitent; only a woman, addressed to the viewer in a cocky pose, has he head up and looks far away; on the background, on a shelf are placed some busts, while a character in the middle of the scene is reading a book; their faces are almost unrecognisable, defaced by a kind of scrawl Mario Ceroli Venice Biennale - 1982