Giacomo Leopardi | Alla luna / To the moon, 1819

O graziosa luna, io mi rammento

Che, or volge l’anno, sovra questo colle

Io venia pien d’angoscia a rimirarti:

E tu pendevi allor su quella selva

Siccome or fai, che tutta la rischiari.

Caspar David Friedrich | The Dreamer, 1835 | The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Salvatore Alessi, 1974 | Abstract painter

Salvatore Alessi was born in Sicily. After the Art school, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo, specializing in scenography.

Then he started working as a scenographer: he made theatrical sets for the Politeama Theatre of Palermo, and the Massimo of Catania.

At the same time pursuing his passion for painting and also deals with film. He starts working as an assistant designer for several films.

Antonio Sgarbossa, 1945 | Waiting...

Antonio Sgarbossa is an Italian painter, known for working in the Figurative style.

Antonio Sgarbossa was born in Fontaniva.

His work experience began at the age of 12 when a ceramics workshop opened near his house.

There, young painters painted views of tourist destinations on the ceramic plates, especially Venice, the most famous and most visited city in the Veneto.

Citazioni di Giorgio De Chirico

• "Un'opera d'arte per divenire immortale deve sempre superare i limiti dell'umano senza preoccuparsi né del buon senso né della logica".

• "L'arte deve creare sensazioni sconosciute in passato; spogliare l'arte dal comune e dall'accettato... sopprimere completamente l'uomo quale guida o come mezzo per esprimere dei simboli, delle sensazioni, dei pensieri, liberare la pittura una volta per tutte dall'antropomorfismo... vedere ogni cosa, anche l'uomo, nella sua qualità di cosa.".

Gabriele D'Annunzio | Rimani! / Stay!

Rimani! Riposati accanto a me.

Non te ne andare.

Io ti veglierò. Io ti proteggerò.

Ti pentirai di tutto fuorchè d'essere venuto a me, liberamente, fieramente.

Ti amo. Non ho nessun pensiero che non sia tuo;

non ho nel sangue nessun desiderio che non sia per te.

Antonio Sgarbossa, 1945

Carmelo Blandino, 1966 | Abstract flowers

"My works are entrusted with the messages of Ages, created to impart healing and creative inspiration through beauty" - Carmelo Blandino.

Born to Sicilian parents in Tübingen, Germany, and with a childhood spent in the cities of Montreal and Modica, Sicily, Carmelo Blandino’s life journey has spanned continents and oceans.

It has now brought him to the US, where he has studios and residences in both Connecticut and Wisconsin.

Blandino grows his inspirational vocabulary by taking the essentialness of Home to each and every place he has made his bed, wherever he has set up easel and wielded paintbrush.

Licio Passon, 1965 | Venice painter

Licio Passon was born in Udine, Italy.

To comprehend the artistic life of Licio Passon you can’t neglect his belonging to his homeland of the Friuli region and his truest and most profound values of a rustic life that he has made his own and not revisited as a faded memory.

The people who have formed him have been his parents who well knew the hardship of the fields.

Alex Bertaina, 1963 | Abstract painter

Maybe my sky and my sea are united, as our existence, between transport towards nature and departure from it and they shall treat these wounds" - Alex Bertaina

Alex Bertaina is an Italian painter, born in Turin. He lives and work in Cuneo, in North West Italy.