Salon Palermo 3
A group show on young Italian painting
Salon Palermo 3 (2023), the third edition of Salon Palermo: a group show on young Italian painting. 8 July – 26 August 2023, RizzutoGallery, Palermo. 8 artists, 35 works, curated by Antonio Grulli and Francesco De Grandi.
Many new names on everyone’s lips today have passed right through here.
Third year: “almost a small anniversary”. The Salon becomes an unmissable event of the Palermo summer and a reference survey of new Italian figurative painting. Eight artists, among Sicilian puppets, teenage bedrooms and dystopian landscapes.
Artists
Alessandro Aprile
Alessandro Aprile’s research has to do with folklore and with a sacredness typical of his place of origin: the statue of the saint carried in procession, the Easter illuminations, the games invented and the childhood scenes used to fight the heat and boredom. The desire to find an expedient runs through his pictorial research, and in his works he always feels the urge to evade specific limits and rules, experimenting with and testing every device he uses.
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Emilio Gola
In a sleepy, frivolous atmosphere, at the centre of each painting a few disengaged young people give in, distracted or too absorbed in their divertissements, in a mysterious and timeless moment, in no specific place, leaving it to painting itself to define them. Drawing from life is the paradigm of every painting, which begins by trying to capture all the freedom granted to the models while posing, their carefree adolescent lightness. By letting the others play, with only the intrusion of the eye drawing on the canvas, the scene is free to come to life, amid the precious contrasts of play and boredom, in embraces and spontaneous gestures.
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Agnese Guido
Her work is an exploration of the symbolism of images through painting and drawing. Seeking the poetic and paradoxical side of reality and everyday life, Agnese Guido tells stories in which the gap between objects and human beings is blurred and malleable, leading the viewer into an anthropomorphic dimension where objects show human feelings and figures are pretexts for depicting ideas, as in an allegory of the contemporary.
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Letizia Lucchetti
Innocent and witty, Letizia Lucchetti’s paintings initially attract with their simple, seemingly naive appearance, then fascinate through the imagery and personal narratives that the young artist masterfully develops.
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Andrea Luzi
Access to abstractly dystopian scenarios is signalled through a vertigo-like perspective. Vertigo in the visual sense, that is, the bewilderment of the gaze amid the multiplication of details on the surface, arranged in sprouting concretions, organic simulacra and old cybernetics on a collision course in the cosmos. Vertigo also in the demand for an imaginative movement: hypothesising the consequences and drifts of the anthropocentric landscape, giving up stable coordinates and morphologies, buried under a halo of desolate fog, or encountering other panoramas that, through their chromatic and iconographic choices, are its schizophrenic, psychedelic, hallucinated counterpart.
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Elisabetta Marino
Through the traditional languages of painting and a non-linear narrative structure, Elisabetta Marino’s research focuses on evocative images situated in a liminal zone of time. In her works she synthesises a personal idea of contemporary archaeology made of varied colours and forms, using references to classical art grafted onto pop drifts and postmodern syntax.
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Martina Pozzobon
Her work develops through drawing and painting. In drawing she is interested in developing all the mark-making potential specific to the technique. The scenes she draws are products of her imagination; the subjects are the most diverse and come from observing people, from dreams, cinema and art history. She creates surreal and tragicomic scenes, with an interest in the body, the unconscious and the grotesque.
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Elias Vitrano
Elias Vitrano’s painting takes shape from mystery. On the canvas the artist tries to render the mystery of the everyday and the many parts that make it up, such as a dog’s footprint in the sand, the curve of a flower weighed down by an insect, the small plants growing on a rock, the reflections in a puddle. When he draws, before starting to paint, he tries to imitate those energies, those mysterious forces, aspects of nature that manifest themselves in a very personal imagery of suspended forms and lands.
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Installation views
The Salon wall
Antonio Grulli
Third year for Salon Palermo; almost a small anniversary, a birthday, a symbolic figure. Who would have thought. Enthusiasm intact and still so many artists to show. Italy in recent years has been truly generous with painters, in every corner of its territory. And I think the Salon Palermo has managed to carve out an important role in reconnaissance of the new Italian figurative painting. Many new names on everyone's lips today have passed right through here.
So here we are again at our annual migration, now a fixed appointment, every early July. We return to the sun, the life, the colors, the warmth. We have realized how much we need it, we have realized how good it does us. To embrace even more strongly the eroticism of vision, magic and mystery. Again. Always in Palermo, in the heart of the city; the perfect theater for daytime, and especially nighttime, raids in its neighborhoods, among museums, bars, squares paved with gray and red stones, to breathe all the life that can enter our lungs. Palermo that for us is a thousand talks, endless sweats, encounters; the only school of art and life. Palermo, which in years hostile to painting has been a place of resistance to homogenization and freedom. In that wedge of land that looks like a strip of Europe torn and pulled toward North Africa and the Middle East.
In Salon Palermo all the works can be traced back to a figuration linked to a visionary dimension. The works in the exhibition hold together thanks to one of the very few lines that can be traced within painting today, that path linked to a tradition that for simplicity's sake could be defined as surrealist or that draws on European expressionism between the two great wars.
Opening & moments
The group photo · Julian Schnabel at the Salon
- "Salon Palermo": terza edizione dell'appuntamento estivo di RizzutoGallery — Redazione Balarm ↗
- Salon Palermo 3, la collettiva sulla giovane pittura italiana da RizzutoGallery — Tiziana R. ↗
- Salon Palermo 3 (scheda mostra) ↗
- SALON PALERMO 3 ↗
- RizzutoGallery ospita in via Maletto “Salon Palermo 3”
- SALON PALERMO 3: il cuore della giovane pittura italiana — Mario Bronzino ↗
- La giovane pittura figurativa surreale alla Rizzutogallery di Palermo — Eliana Urbano Raimondi ↗
- Salon Palermo, un radar sulla nuova pittura italiana. Parola a Francesco De Grandi e Antonio Grulli — Helga Marsala ↗