Tomorrow will start the exhibition of Aligi Sassu

Friday, July 15, 2011, at 19, in the halls of Villa Florence, Sorrento, will inaugurate the exhibition "Sassu Mediterranean", sponsored by the City of Sorrento and from Sorrento and curated by the Foundation in collaboration with Marisa Zattini the artist's son Carlos Julio Suarez Sassu. A substantial number of works, over 80, covering a time span ranging from 1930 to 1997, set up inside the halls of this prestigious exhibition by the architect Augustus Pompili.
These are paintings, sculptures, ceramics , drawings, sketches from the Archive Sassu theater and some private collections.
In the works, the protagonist is the Mediterranean, understood as "place prince" of his imaginary landscape of the soul where the roots of a culture Latin-greek. And 'the emotional intensity of a beloved land of Sardinia,
of Sicily, Mallorca is a perfect implementation in the power of coloristic Sassu,
in the chromatic richness of life that distinguishes his cards, his paintings and all his rich ceramic production.
"If we think that the myth of the Mediterranean has gone a bit 'all European culture involving painting,
sculpture, poetry, music and architecture, no doubt our artist emerges as one of its greatest interpreters
- explains Zattini - Sassu is one of the biggest names in Italian art of the twentieth century that has fully lived the "Mediterranean" to the primitivist energy that has been able to translate across his work. For the obsessive search for depth and beauty that this subject had in his path, for that
strength and the consistency with which the artist has been able to express and develop throughout his life,
the riot of movement and creative vitality. A visionary artist who knew how to explore and interpret
better, through his artistic research, that dimension "Mediterranean and mythical" seen and experienced as a metaphor for excellence of the "Theatrum mundi" man ".
The exhibition, whose entrance is free, will be open to the public until September 25 at the following times: Monday to Friday from 10 am to 13 and from 17 to 21, while Saturday and Sunday, the closing is extended up to 22 hours. Information, phone 0818782284.

By the Press Service Press Office August