After the regional authority of Tuscany had turned down the work of Tommaso Tozzi and Giacomo Verde - which consists in: promoting Netstrike 214-T against the death penalty; printing a postcard; and installing computers in support of Netstrike 214-T in the exibition space - it refused permission to the two artists, just three days before its opening, to demostrate the nature of the project, and further to put on display the letter of refusal from the President of the Region, The Hon. Riccardo Nencini.
A matter that till now seemed to be a case of political censorship, owing to a lack of familiarity with life on the Net - amply demostrated by the political leaders of the region of Tuscany - has now became the very real censorship of freedom of expression and of any art form that strays from producing little more than beautiful if harmless objects. It is paradoxical that an institution which rightly sets out to celebrate the abolition of the death penalty as a sign of progress in civil society, should then in fact behave like the most retrogressive authoritarian state in deling with those that express in a different way the same point of wiew.
