02 Works, The art of War, Francesco Verio's Journey in vain hopes, with Footnotes

Francesco Verio (1959)

Journey in vain hopes

Oil on canvas

HEIGHT 100 cm  WIDTH 150 cm

Private collection

More than 2,500 people have died or gone missing while trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe so far this year, while approximately 186,000 people have arrived in European countries during the same period.

Of the 186,000 who had crossed the Mediterranean, 83 percent – some 130,000 people – landed in Italy. Other countries where people who had crossed the Mediterranean had landed included Greece, Spain, Cyprus and Malta.

Francesco Verio

Shipwrecked

Oil on canvas

cm 40x50

Private collection

The number of those who died or went missing during the dangerous sea crossing has surged this year compared with last year. Over 2,500 people were accounted as dead or missing in 2023 alone.” That number marked a large increase over the 1,680 who died or went missing in the same period in 2022.

They are refugees and economic migrants fleeing homelands ruptured by war, repression and poverty. Their journeys are perilous in overcrowded wooden fishing boats and flimsy polyurethane dinghies hardly suitable for crossing a river, much less a vast sea.

They risk everything for a chance at freedom and dignity. Many perish. More on migrants crossing to Europe

Criticism often addresses Francesco Verio as a young painter, but it is true that his proven artistic experience and his decades-long participation in personal and collective exhibitions restore the image of an artist that youth has truly never abandoned, if with it we interpret the liveliness of ingenuity, the freshness of the enthusiasm with which research develops and deepens, the desire and courage to compete with tradition and the experience gained. In this Francesco Verio is young, and his gaze on the world throbs with a vitality always in search of new expressive possibilities. More on Francesco Verio

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