Osteria Francescana has no view of the sea or the mountains.
You can see neither a bell tower nor a town square.
Our horizon is shaped by imagination.
NEVER STOP PLANTING is a landscape of ideas.
Every month: art, stories, inspirations.
Art is hunger.
Art is hunger.
Art is hunger.
Who is the lovely child in the blue-and-white dress, holding a megaphone?
Sylvie is the policeman’s daughter. She is dressed to go out with her parents but insists on bringing a worn handbag, utterly unsuitable for the occasion.
Her parents try to reason with her, but she will not give in. Frustrated, they leave her at home.
Sylvie replies in her own way. She grabs her father’s megaphone, runs to the balcony, and raises her voice:
I’m hungry!
I’m hungry!
I’m hungry!
I’m hungry!
I’m hungry!
I’m hungry!
The neighbors cannot ignore her voice. Disapproving of the parents’ choice, they gather food in a wicker basket, tie it to a rope, and slowly lower it toward the balcony.
The megaphone falls silent.
Sylvie, satisfied, can finally eat.
Credits: SUEO
A scene from François Truffaut’s film L’Argent De Poche (Small Change) gives us a glimpse of everyday family life.
A ceramic freeze-frame by the Italian artist Vincenzo Cabiati entitled: La Figlia Del Poliziotto—The Policeman’s Daughter from 2002 is not a quotation.
Cabiati has made this scene his own vivid snapshot.
Credits: SUEO
Today the artwork is nestled into a wall of Osteria Francescana’s wine cellar. Among the myriad bottles, the eye is immediately drawn to the child and her megaphone, transforming a silent room into a booming landscape of ideas.
Credits: SUEO
Artists are misfits searching for a place in the world.
They live with a hunger for meaning.
A hunger to give breath to ideas, to give shape to dreams.
A hunger to be seen, to be heard.
Art is hunger.
NEVER STOP PLANTING.
