For the first edition of Centro Pecci Commissione, the director Stefano Collicelli Cagol invited the artist Adelaide Cioni (Bologna, 1976, lives and works in Spoleto). Her work confronts the tradition of drawing, painting and performance starting from the use of fabrics. For the occasion, Cioni created the work Il mondo, 2023 thanks to the support of the textile company Bellandi Spa, technical sponsor of the initiative. The work covers the perimeter walls of the room and is inspired by abstract and natural elements. Three large white canvases hang on the highest walls, and to each of them are sewn series of crosses, circles and triangles, ancestral signs made with colored woolen cloths. Present since ancient times in the decorations of populations in different parts of the world, these symbols underline Cioni's research across eras and geographies. The lower walls of the room host smaller canvases, with white backgrounds invaded by motifs taken from the repertoire of natural shapes used by the artist, such as leaves, sea waves, parts of the body. In the carnival lit by the incandescent and luminous colors of regenerated wool, the world thus takes substance, ideally embracing those who immerse themselves in it upon entering the room.

For the Pecci Center, Adelaide Cioni also created the work La grande mano, 2023, which will welcome visitors at the entrance to the Pecci Center, thanks to the support of Bellandi Spa. Cioni chose the iconography of the tapered fingers of a hand to underline the key role that manual skills continue to have today. In everyday life, at work, in sacred ceremonies, in play and in eroticism, the hand is the part of the body responsible for establishing connections with what is other than us. Cioni celebrates the power of the hand in a large canvas, underlining its fundamental role in artisanal, industrial and artistic production, but also in the digital activities that we carry out every day, with our fingers. In the context of the Pecci Center, the hand anticipates one of the themes present in various works exhibited in Eccentrica. The collections of the Pecci Centre. It also recalls the manufacturing tradition of the city of Prato and Tuscany, while connecting to the present, digitalized and hyper-connected world. The work renews the commitment of the Pecci Center to support, through its educational and training activities, the importance of manual, manufacturing and artistic work, a fundamental element for the development of the Tuscan community.