The Municipality of Russi, one of the first city revolting for the italian unification in 1831, commisioned to 30 artist two pieces on paper on the theme of the 150th anniversary of Italian unification. The title “Fratelli in Italia” (“brothers in Italy” instead than the “brothers of Italy” of the national anthem) point the question of the multicultural italian society and the problem to have a nation with different nationalities.
At the studio Tassinari/Vetta, Leonardo Sonnoli with Irene Bacchi designed the poster and the catalogue cover of the exhibition (see Nation and nationality. posted on 02.01.2011).
The fluo green and red on white of the italian flag is overlapped in different patterns coming from the historical cockade and the african and arabic design.