“This is an exhibition”, says Gigliola Foschi, “in defense of freedom of speech, image and thought. An exhibition against a cancel culture which, without comparison and without discussion, in liberal England made the book London by Gian Butturini withdrawn from the market and muddied the figure of a man who for all his life had been committed against all forms of racism and d 'injustice".

The section dedicated to London tells the English capital from a new, critical, uncoated perspective and documents Butturini's forays through the streets of London populated by girls in miniskirts, immigrants, junkies, marginalized people, city dwellers who seem to live in a world of part. It is a London outside stereotypes that emerges from his shots, capturing all the contradictions with an innovative eye, where documentary investigation, graphic interventions and written pages are combined for expressive purposes.

It was in fact a double image with a black woman selling subway tickets locked inside a closet and a gorilla in a cage who, instead of arousing indignation at the conditions of two living beings, both trapped and discriminated against, as it was in the Butturini's intent has unleashed an accusation of "overt racism", forcing the publisher to remove the volume from bookstores.

The exhibition at Still Fotografia closes with situationist collages, works in which Butturini, photographer and graphic artist, intervenes with scratchy colors and writings on comic strips from the 1970s. Batman or Nembo Kid, for example, are transformed into heroes of the counterculture who overturn and overturn, in a provocative way, the meanings proposed by the dominant culture. The exhibition is accompanied by a volume published by STILL / Pazzini Editore with a text by Gigliola Foschi.