Presentation of the work Man at Work by Barbara Jones

Thursday, 18 September 2025 at 5 PM, Lesser Council Hall

Matteo Fochessati and Anna Vyazemtseva from the Wolfsoniana of Nervi, together with director Ilaria Bonacossa, will present the monumental work by the English artist Barbara Mildred Jones, which has returned to Italy after more than sixty years and is now on permanent display thanks to a loan agreement between the London-based association RAW – Rediscovering Art by Women and Palazzo Ducale Fondazione per la Cultura in Genoa.

The piece is a gigantic head-shaped silhouette from which emerge scenes and objects evoking themes of labor, technological innovation, and social change.

Barbara Mildred Jones (Croydon, Surrey, UK, 1912–1978), Man at Work: A Century of Technical and Social Progress, 1961
Oil on plywood,
Permanent loan from RAW – Rediscovering Art by Women, London
to Palazzo Ducale – Fondazione per la Cultura, Genoa

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