The "Francesco Cavazza" Institute of the Blind was founded in 1881 as a foundation commissioned by the young Count Cavazza and his wealthy friends to help that growing number of blind children who were excluded from society. The Institute has always promoted a redevelopment of the blind person's life throughout Italy, launching social and technological opportunities, a real point of reference. Inside there are two unique museums: Ptolemy Museum which tells the evolution of technology and aids for the blind and the even more incredible Anteros Museum. Within a small laboratory, then enlarged by several branches, the Institute has always promoted the sculpture and processing of clay as a teaching method to make its users understand notions such as depth, the third dimension. Not only that: in the major museums of the world the most famous paintings and works have their "tactile version", a bas-relief studied in its projections to show the painting through touch. The photographs brought to the exhibition portray a specific work on four plaster bas-reliefs of the Anteros Museum on which we could indulge ourselves and although, apparently, they might seem the simplest effects have all required care and sensitivity out of the extraordinary. Optical fiber and light in general, like a brush, reproduced the touch that "shows" the work.
