Una curatela di Flavio Scaloni, Gallery Manager presso Galerie Lo Scalo – The theme of The Wall is a fundamental architectural and psychological motif, symbolizing division, protection, confinement, boundary, and memory. It represents the meeting point between public and private space, often carrying the psychological weight of emotional barriers or societal separation. In Art History, the wall has been an active canvas since ancient times, but post-1950, it became a central subject and form. The Berlin Wall, specifically, inspired works reflecting political division. Conceptual and Minimalist artists used the wall's structure and surface directly; for example, Sol LeWitt's Wall Drawings are temporary murals executed directly on the architecture. The Pink Floyd album The Wall (1979) cemented the motif's cultural symbolism of emotional isolation. World-famous photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson captured countless human dramas unfolding against walls, using their stark geometry as a stage for his decisive moments, although his work is not strictly post-1950, his influence is enduring. Later, contemporary artists like Doris Salcedo explore the wall as a site of collective trauma and silence, notably in her installation Shibboleth (2007) at the Tate Modern, which was a vast crack in the gallery floor.