At the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Jago’s sculpture sparks a powerful dialogue between past and present. His marble work, Natura Morta, responds provocatively to Caravaggio’s iconic Basket of Fruit - replacing ripe fruit with pistols, rifles, and machine guns.
The piece overturns the traditional language of still life, transforming it into a stark denunciation of the systemic violence that saturates contemporary society. Marble, the timeless material of Italian art, becomes the medium for a brutally relevant message: death as a mass-produced commodity. In this visual and conceptual exchange with Caravaggio, Jago pushes the reflection on transience further, exposing a deeper, more brutal fragility - that of modern humanity. It is a striking, unsettling work, one that prompts us to question time, life, and what remains when meaning seems lost.
