Lacrimae by Andrea Santarlasci in Catania

Collicaligreggi Gallery in Catania will host a solo exhibition by Andrea Santarlasci (Pisa, 1964) titled"Lacrimae" from Sept. 5 to Oct. 20, 2018.

In this review, the artist addresses themes about the reality and history of Catania. “The project stems from a reflection on the place, in particular its territory, history and legends concerning underground rivers, real and mythical, invisible, legendary, obscure or disappeared waters, which often become metaphorical resonances and lead us to reflect and meditate on universal and existential human questions, such as pain and death. Opposite values such as stillness and flowing, caught simultaneously in a co-presence, will be further themes addressed through the substance of water that becomes, at the same time, a metaphor for death and life,” says the artist.

Curator Lorand Hegyi, an art historian and critic specializing in modern and contemporary art and former director of the Saint-Étienne Museum of Modern Art, adds, “Andrea Santarlasci’s profoundly evocative, poetically complex, emotionally offensive and at the same time elegantly silent work subtly connects different fields of experience, and intellectual encounters to create a highly articulated and intense zone of references and connotations that intends to sensitize essential cultural and anthropological constellations.”

Present will be a large site-specific installation,"Beneath Us, Still the Time of Water Runs," inspired by both the underground waterways, which are often diverted, submerged or disappeared due to natural disasters such as earthquakes and lava flows over the centuries, and imaginary or mythological ones.

On Friday, September 21, 2018 at 5:30 p.m., the artist and curator will meet the public.

For info: www.collicaligreggi.it

Hours: Tuesday through Friday from 3 to 7 p.m.; Saturday from 4 to 7 p.m.

Image: Andrea Santarlasci, Beneath us, still the time of water flows, 2018

Lacrimae by Andrea Santarlasci in Catania

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