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Elio Cassarà

Elio Cassarà was born in Mazara del Vallo in 1974. The artist’s painting tends to abstract art, attributable to the intense effects of lights and the expressiveness of color in his narration of landscapes. In his paintings we can see the evolutionary nature of painting, based on the careful observation of the environment which dissolves into a fantastic vision, full of suggestions and imaginative power. After training with some local artists, in 1997 Cassarà lived in Venice where he studied the masters of the twentieth century in greater depth and in particular his attention was captured by Giorgio Morandi’s still-life. These were the years in which he devoted himself intensely to the study of painting; he was strongly influenced by the German romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich, the symbolism of Marx Klinger and Arnold Böcklin and the ideas of the radical Pre-Raphaelites. In 2001 he moved to Berlin where he lived for many years and hosted several personal exhibitions. The period spent in Germany and his admiration for Gerhard Richter influenced Cassarà’s work which became more abstract and expressive and it was at this stage that the landscape became the main subject of the artist’s work. In his paintings, he depicts vitality and relationship with nature using vibrant colors that energizes the entire surface of the canvas.

In 2007, he had a one-man show at Narodni Muzej Zajecar (Serbia) curated by Bora Dimitrjevic and Nina Pogarcic. On his return to Venice in 2014, Cassarà completed his series of paintings inspired by his long stay in Germany, which were exhibited the following years. He often visited Sicily to absorb the light and the colors to elaborate them in paintings later. By the end of 2020, he moved to Moscow to study the Russian medieval art and to hold some important art exhibitions.

Starting from 2016, Elio Cassarà is present at the permanent collection of MUSEUM – Osservatorio dell’arte in Sicily, under the founding director Ezio Pagano.

In 2022 the Moscow Museum of Modern Art chose one of the paintings for its permanent collection following a one-man show “Il Colore Del Vento” at the Pushkin Public Library in Moscow.

In 2023, the Foundation Orestiadi - Museo delle Trame Mediterranee in Gibellina included two artworks in its permanent collection.

Always in 2023, the Diaghilev Museum of Modern Art in St. Petersburg inserted one of the artworks showed at a one-man show “Levkas” to the collection of the Museum.

The same year, CAMUSAC – Cassino Museum of Contemporary Art, chose a large-scale painting for its permanent collection.

Among many others who wrote about Cassarà are Ezio Pagano, Tommaso Evagelista, Ilona Lebedeva, Anna Maria Ruta, Francesco Gallo Mazzeo, Nina Pogarcic, Victor Arellano Rey, Gaetano Salerno.

His work is included in public and private collections in Italy and abroad.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 – Spazio Contemporaneo Agorà, Palermo, Italy

2023 – Diaghilev Museum of Modern Art, St. Petersburg, Russia

2022 – A.S. Pushkin Public Library, Moscow, Russia

2021 – Novgorod Center of Contemporary Art, Russia

2018 – San Gregorio Art Gallery, Venice, Italy

2017 – Wunderkammer7, Venice, Italy

2015 – Galerie Hugo Cassel, Berlin, Germany

2014 – Palazzo Ca`Zanardi, Venice, Italy

2013 – Galerie Sievi, Berlin, Germany

2010 – Galerie Sievi, Berlin, Germany

2009 – Alexander Alvarez Contemporary Art, Alessandria, Italy

2007 – Narodni Muzej, Zajecar, Serbia

2006 – Art Klub Canaletto, Belgrad, Serbia

1999 – Galleria V&V Projects, Vicenza, Italy

1999 – Scoletta dei Calegheri, Venice, Italy

1995 – Galleria Spazio Arte, Gavi – Italia

1993 – Chiesa della SS. Annunziata, Alessandria – Italia

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 – Orestiadi Foundation – Museo delle trame mediterranee, Gibellina, Italy

2019 – “Seen anything interesting?”, Bugno Art Gallery, Venice, Italy

2018 – Bugno Art Gallery, Venice, Italy

2018 – VIII Rassegna d’Arte Contemporanea, Casa dei Carraresi, Treviso, Italy

2016 – Galerie Hugo Cassel, Berlin, Germany

2010 – I Concorso di Pittura Hotel Casanova, Duchcov, Czech Republic

2009 – IX Concorso La Fenice et Des Artistes, Trieste, Italy

張真英 -Jenna Chang

祁慶玲 - Linna Chi

梅田 弓子 - Yumiko Umeda

栗原 樹々- Juju Kurihara

„Galerie Sievi trifft auf Asien. Zwischen Poesie und Meditation“ präsentiert Kunstwerke von vier zeitgenössischen Künstlerinnen aus Taiwan und Japan: 張真英 - Jenna Chang, 祁慶玲 - Linna Chi, 梅田 弓子 - Yumiko Umeda und 栗原 樹々- Juju Kurihara.

Die Ausstellung widmet sich den Themen Poesie/Tanz/Musik, Meditation/Traum und Natur.

Jenna Chang setzt in ihrer Skulpturen-Reihe „Secret Garden Series“ eine Reihe von Stufen in die Körper der weiblichen Plastiken oder lässt ihnen in „Mythical Forest Series“ Engelsflügel wachsen. Für Jenna Chang sind Skulpturen „Gedichte ohne Worte“.

Linna Chis abstrakte Gemälde widmen sich dem Licht in verschiedenen Intensitäten. Sie lässt die während der Blütezeit der Tang-Dynastie typische Landschaftsmalerei in ihre eigenen Kompositionen einfließen. Die Textilkunstwerke, die erstmalig in einer Galerie ausgestellt werden, sind in Zusammenarbeit zwischen der Textilkünstlerin Yumiko Umeda und der Kalligraphin Juju Kurihara entstanden.

Dr. Rania Sid Otmane, Kuratorin und Projektleiterin

H. Janssen

G. Fabritius