Umberto Cavenago’s work redefines the traditional concept of sculpture. The artist uses technology and industrial production methods, overturning their functional logic and subverting it to his own ends. For this current exhibition Cavenago has created an installation consisting of a conveyor belt made of stainless steel, 7.5 metres long, designed and executed according to industriai criteria. Ready to take its piace in the production of consumer goods, it is located in an art gallery rather than in a factory. The blue PVC belt does not carry goods but ideas; completely devoid of any practical utility, it exists through this profound tension, thus stimulating reaction and thought. In order to orient the work in accordance with the sun’s east-west trajectory in the sky, the artist has made a hole in the wall separating two of the gallery’s rooms. To see the installation in its entirety the viewer, accompanied by the vibrating sound produced by the movement of the belt, must go from one room to the other, being both physically and emotionally involved and reflecting upon the human condition in the industriai era and the function of art.