Alfonso Leto on display in Palermo

“Alfonso Leto, Selected Works 1977-2017” is the title dedicated to the Santo Stefano di Quisquina artist among the most original in contemporary Italian art, considered an eclectic, surrealist, psychedelic artist.
The exhibition, which is part of the grand billboard of Palermo Italian Capital of Culture 2018, will be held from March 24 to April 29 at the Palazzo Sant’Elia in Palermo, from a project of the Fondazione Orestiadi, in collaboration with Fondazione Sant’Elia, which bears the authoritative signature of Marco Meneguzzo, professor at theBrera Academy in Milan and author of an articulate and documented study of Sicilian artists of the second half of the 20th century.
The exhibition will boast of drawings, paintings, combine-painting, extra-artistic and object and conceptual-use media, all dating back to Alfonso Leto ’s forty-year cycle of activity to recount the versatility and richness of techniques and means of expression of which painting is the medium of choice.
“Alfonso Leto is a living scanner,” curator Meneguzzo explains in the catalog, “An analyst of the real, of everything that happens within his range of interest (mind you, not within his range, or even within his visual range), and which is processed according to self-generating and self-generated codes. Codes, even more than languages, change quite rapidly over the years, but the purpose is always the same: the encoding of the real according to intelligible parameters. In fact, this is the task of the intellectual, and in fact Leto is first of all an intellectual, then an artist, because from art he has borrowed his codes of reference and communication.”
“For many of us,” he continues, “this fantastic painting was the only way out of the Guttusian ”vulgate," the Guttuso-connection that had occupied the Sicilian sensibility, and with it the galleries and the market. Alongside this, as a point of reference we had - I had - a strong link with a historical figure of Gruppo 63, Gaetano Testa, who was a master for me. Thanks to him I understood that the “center” is where we are, and from there we have to act, establishing a system of communication with the place and from the place where you live and from where you theorize your language and act out your human relationships."
Hours: Tuesday to Friday 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. (last admission 6 p.m.), Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. (last admission 6 p.m.), closed Monday.
Tickets: Full € 5.00 Reduced € 4.00 (over 65; groups - minimum 15 people; schools: € 3.00 per student).

Alfonso Leto on display in Palermo

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