The rooms of Villa Zito in Palermo are hosting the exhibition Isgrò Dante e la Sicilia, promoted by Fondazione Sicilia and Amici dei Musei Siciliani, in collaboration with Archivio Emilio Isgrò and contribution from Fondazione per l’Arte e la Cultura Lauro Chiazzese.
The rooms of Villa Zito, home to the Pinacoteca della Fondazione Sicilia, are hosting the exhibition Isgrò Dante e la Sicilia, curated by Marco Bazzini and Bruno Corà. Promoted by the Fondazione Sicilia and Amici dei Musei Siciliani in collaboration with the Archivio Emilio Isgrò and with the contribution from the Fondazione per l’Arte e la Cultura Lauro Chiazzese, the exhibition presents around twenty paintings from both public and private collections with subjects from Dante Alighieri’s work. From 1966 to the most recent works, they briefly describe the multiform and deep relationship Emilio Isgrò had with the erasure technique, which on this occasion focused on Dante’s “De vulgari eloquentia”.
Read moreThe exhibition celebrates 30 years of the Fondazione Sicilia and the recent acquisition to its collection of Seme d’arancia su pietra siciliana (Orange Seed on Sicilian stone), a work by Emilio Isgrò presented on 9 April 2022 at Palazzo Branciforte, the Fondazione’s prestigious headquarters restored by Gae Aulenti. The exhibition has launched an important one-year-long cultural project, which can be summed up in the expression ‘Isgrò Dante Caravaggio and Sicily’. A second event was held in the Oratorio di San Lorenzo, in the heart of Palermo’s historic centre, on 24 December 2021, when Emilio Isgrò unveiled his work ‘Nativity’. In this work, the Sicilian Master has tackled this iconographic topic also in memory of Caravaggio’s masterpiece on the same theme stolen from this Oratory back in 1969.
Emilio Isgrò (Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, Messina, 1937). Considered to be one of the innovators of Italian artistic language after World War II, Emilio Isgrò is the undisputed father of the erasure technique, which he began experimenting with in the early 1960s and is still using with the same energy and creative audacity. This original research on language has made him an almost unique artist and an undisputed protagonist of the international contemporary art scene. His works are featured in the most important private and public collections, both in Italy and abroad.
MON – SUNDAY: 9:30 a.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday: closed
Standard ticket: € 5
Discounted ticket: € 3
