Maurizio Finotto's Votive Tablets at MAMbo Bologna

Maurizio Finotto (born 1968) presents a series of votive tablets made from sea-recovered wood fragments at MAMbo in Bologna. The works depict biographical episodes—a highway accident, a tax audit, a job gone wrong, recovery from gastroenteritis, and his move from Cavarzere to Bologna to study at the Academy, leaving behind his disliked profession as a dental technician. The tablets form a surprising, irreverent retablo that elicits unintended smiles. Opposite, the video 'La lingua dei miracoli' shows Finotto offering these 'divine' homages to his mother and grandmother, who with spontaneous emotion recall and comment on the events that inspired them.