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Episode: Italian artist uses childhood as metaphor for world events
Description: The largest solo exhibition of Valerio Berruti, an Italian artist renowned for his artworks depicting children, has opened in Milan. The exhibition uses the metaphor of childhood to suggest a more human approach to major current issues.
Don’t be fooled by appearances. The art of Valerio Berruti isn’t really about children.
At first glance, the ‘More Than Kids’ exhibition at the Palazzo Reale in Milan seems to place children at its center. Statues and paintings of children stare at each other, embrace, gaze at the sky, or kneel quietly. There’s even a carousel, a real one, the quintessen...