THE EXHIBITION

     Adrianna Glaviano and Ignazio Mortellaro recorded their trip with photography, using different techniques and photographic equipment, including a Polaroid Land Camera 195. The exhibition brings together a selection of Polaroids and other images by Adrianna Glaviano, one of which is printed on silk, like a tapestry hanging on the stone walls of the Chapel.

     Paula Karoline Kamps has created large paintings in ink and mixed media on canvas, where memories of the trip are transfigured into dreamlike images – the pattern of Baroque floors in decorated lava stone and a man’s tattoed forearm – following the characteristic quality of the artist’s style, between abstraction and figuration. A deep blue colour dominates the background of one of the paintings, where sky and sea merge, resulting in a continuous horizon, like the one that surrounds the island.

     John Kleckner presents a large painting that plays with the “mimesis” of the collage technique through the use of surreal and abstract shapes in a juxtaposition of fields of colour and figurative inserts. Memories of the trip are transformed into symbols and combined with each other in an abstract composition, between the real and the artificial, in a constant search for a balance.

     Carlo and Fabio Ingrassia present two site-specific installations. The first, installed in the central aisle of the chapel, consisting of small works in crayon which the artists have sourced from images of house facades in Noto, Modica and Gibellina. The second installation, in the hypostyle room, is part of their series I Limiti Perdono (progetto Velature): through meticulous layering and the saturation of endless layers of crimson-drawn pastel on cardboard, the purest tone of the pigment creates an abstract work.

     Ignazio Mortellaro has crated works that relate the hypostyle space of the church with the outside space (the Loggia, adjacent to the chapel, overlooking Palermo’s Cathedral) and vice versa, in reference to the architecture of this particular exhibition space. During the 2015 grape harvest, the exhibition will be presented at the Casa Planeta of the Comune di Menfi, headquarters of the Association Si.Ste.Ma Vino.