The woods of the old boats come to life and shine with bright colors. And in them echoes of Homer and the sea of civilizations. They are eyes on a distant world that today is even more dangerous for the desperate who venture there in search of a longed-for and distant salvation. On the occasion of the Genzano di Roma Infiorata, which for the 244th edition has chosen “Our Mother Earth” as the theme, the Sicilian sculptor Luigi Camarilla exhibits his densely metaphysical sculptures.
breaking latest news of an expressive research that intertwines painting, sculpture and writing, in the rooms of the sixteenth-century Palazzo Sforza Cesarini, the exhibition articulates the themes of Spirituality, Myth and Present Time explored by the artist from 1996 to 2022.
Sicilian fishermen and migrants
Entirely made with the bright woods of the old boats of Sicilian fishermen and migrants, a favorite material that highlights the anthropological spirit of a work stretched between sentiment of origins and civil commitment, the works and installations speak to us of the iconographic tradition of popular devotion. of echoes of the ancient Homeric characters, of migrations of peoples that require dialogue between cultures.
The exhibition already opens outside Palazzo Sforza Cesarini with the large sculpture Homo Mediterraneus which has as its base a large circular floor of rooms that refers to the value of an archetypal wisdom. At the center is the protagonist: the Homo Mediterraneus of the present, personified by a large anthropomorphic rudder that rises from the salt, dried up sea.
Inside, six rooms host three different sections for a total of 65 works. We begin in those of the blue-night color, with 32 Messenger Altars, suggestive and gaudy “expressions of wood” that cite Mediterranean votive structures in which the pop icon of a heart-shaped prickly pear shovel with three flaming fruits is painted that refers to the Sacred Heart, icon in which the inscription Per Passione Received is inserted. A red room follows with the Ex voto contemporary ceramics collection.
The blue room is instead dedicated to the Present Time, the section in which projects and models of installations are exhibited that address the theme of the migration of peoples, of the dialogue between cultures. The exhibition ends in the large blue-sea room dedicated to the Myth, with six characters from the Odyssey in the form of “sessions” to remember the condition of rest in which the oral transmission of tradition took place.