With her large-scale sculptures, Italian artist Anna Izzo tackles head-on a journey as uncomfortable as it is urgent and necessary, taking her sculptures to multiple cities and modern art awards, to great acclaim from the public, artists and critics.

And from 8 March, International Women’s Day, she’ll be in Valdichiana Village with “La violenza è una gabbia”, a monumental sculpture that denounces violence against women and all the emotional and relational cages that only too often entrap bodies and minds.

Originally presented in Capri in 2020, the work features a huge steel cage containing two red shoes and will be on show until 25 November 2024, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

This sends out a strong message of condemnation from the Village’s main square, but also one of courage and hope, under the aegis of the Region of Tuscany Equal Opportunities Commission and the Municipality of Foiano della Chiana in the Province of Arezzo.

 Once again, art becomes a collective and community megaphone, ‘creating a language that brings us together, makes us love, touches us and disrupts our solitude’. Once again, #ArtIsInTheLand.