In Asinara, art tells the story of pain on an island that was also a place of suffering. The Christ of the Scraps, the work created in the 1970s by the artist Aldo Caron, is the result of a work born from the creativity of the author and the passion of a prisoner who assembled the parts obtained from old ploughs.

The disused agricultural vehicles, symbol of the most used tools in Asinara at the time, were recovered by the artist himself. But only with the help of one of the prisoners, a former welder for Fiat, the well-known Turin car company, were the pieces of rusty wreckage assembled under the guidance of Aldo Caron. The Cristo dei Rottami will be repositioned inside the church of Cala d'Oliva, a small place of worship which will be renovated in the next few days.

A church that exudes history and identity of a past that has seen suffering and death on the island. From the Austro-Hungarian prisoners to the hardest period of prison. The church is also known for the wedding of the prisoner Raffaele Cutolo, a member of the organized Camorra, who in 1983 married Immacolata Jacone, a rite remembered as a special event, celebrated by the historic chaplain of the Asinara prison, Don Giorgio Curreli.

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