The Ermanno Casoli Foundation has a long-standing tradition of commissioning original greeting cards, a task entrusted this year to the artist Giovanni Termini.
His artistic practice explores the relationship between matter, form and space through installations that evoke work environments, construction sites and temporary structures. Using raw or pre-processed materials – such as iron, wood, plywood and concrete – Termini reworks everyday objects, removing them from their original context and transforming them into elements imbued with symbolic and poetic meaning.
In continuity with Dietro ai miei occhi, the title of the installation created by Termini for the eleventh edition of E-STRAORDINARIO for Kids, we find a reference to one of the artist’s iconic works: La Disciplina delle Eccezioni (2025).

A panic bar, which suggests a threshold but does not open anything, is fixed to a wall and incorporates a curved wooden strip. It is the same device that was given to the children as a prompt to explore, through play, what lies beyond a locked door or an impassable wall.
The threshold thus becomes a place of creativity where everyone can imagine whatever they wish, just as the children did when they depicted, using crayons, acrylics and various other materials, what lies ‘behind their own eyes’.
The door thus becomes a symbol of passage, of discovery and of the possibility of looking beyond what is visible, but also of the courage to face the unknown and the future.
Crossing the imaginary threshold suggested by the red enamelled door handle on the ticket reveals a quote from the American comedian Milton Berle: “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door”.
A wish that we may always find the strength, courage and humour to overcome obstacles through imagination, creativity and, why not, art.