- - “The masterpiece of Yvonne DiPalma is already part of a ritual tradition like that of the magnificent Neapolitan eighteenth century representations which spread from the churches into the families …nevertheless, it is a modern tradition, modern and inviting with its title alluding to conceptual art “Presepial Installation in Honor of Piece,” and with its historical perspective verbally maintained by all but by few transferred from the planning stage to that of its realization. Utilizing, in fact, a basic structure similar to that of the Neapolitan presepe, it extends beyond the limits of traditional iconography, creating probable situations with those chief characters of the ideological- political vicissitudes through which the suffering of humanity is dragged. Such an endeavour requires a great deal of work to actually accomplish by the artist- suggested by current events “in progress”, but above all by the continually new hopes which arise from those events so that the results achieved on the realistic plane can be elaborated by the imagination to project optimistically towards a truly peaceful future. .Substantially recalling this theme there is always the upsetting episode of the Nativity, scenographically exalted, in which the beginning of our age may be identified…” - From “A Wood and Cloth Utopia,” by TOMMASO PALOSCIA- Catalogue, Ponte alle Grazie Editori c1991.