The fools inhabit the sacred is the personal of the artist Sergio Padovani, scheduled from September 15 to October 24, 2021, curated by Pierluigi Panza and part of the Milan Art Week 2021 calendar of events during Miart. The exhibition presents one of the most innovative authors of the current Italian painting scene, with an original and unique authorial voice characterized by a mystical visionary tension, between Flemish echoes and contemporary materials such as bitumen or resins. Sergio Padovani ferries into contemporaneity those primordial visions that have been with man since the beginning of the world. In this dimension of the eternal, the sacred is inserted, a theme particularly dear to the artist. Sacred understood as a place inhabited by two opposing forces: the ascending one that pushes towards the divine and the opposite one that instead pushes towards the places of sacrifice and the cursed. The exhibition is organized by the Stelline Foundation in collaboration with The Bank Contemporary Art Collection, an important collection that is collecting an essential testimony - and conducting a precise mapping - of the new painting trends in Italy. With sporadic forays abroad, but always remaining faithful to the figurative painting genre, long forgotten and now forcefully back in the spotlight. Accompanying the exhibition path is a catalog, published by Antiga Edizioni, with critical contributions from the curator Pierluigi Panza and Barbara Codogno.