In 1979 Gianfranco Baruchello made a twenty-two-hour-long film composed of interviews and conversations reflecting on sweetness: breast milk, fairy tales, Hansel and Gretel’s gingerbread house, cakes, childhood, primordial food, sweetness in symbols and legends, pastry shop windows, sugar beets, Mother Earth, honey and the venom of the sting that protects it, forbidden risks and delights, manna.

Shy at Work focuses on Bruno Gironcoli’s skills as a painter and draftsman, producing an encounter between his sculptural practice and his works on paper from the 1960s through the 1990s.