GIOVANNI BLANCO

Giovanni Blanco (1980, Ragusa, Italy). Lives and works in Sicily. His artistic research is studded with a poetic imagery conceived in narrative cycles, where every single image is conceived as a fragment of a wider, "plural" discourse. Thus, living the experience of painting as a means and never as an end.

The image of this series of lithographs - Satiro di Mazara - refers to the Greek sculpture of the Dancing Satyr. The artwork was found by chance in 1998 by a fishing boat in the depths of the Sicilian Channel, between Pantelleria and Africa. Today it is housed in the museum of the same name in Mazara del Vallo. A few years ago, the artist went to admire it up close before his definitive return to the island. The emotion and sense of mystery that still surrounds the bronze have long occupied much of his thoughts. At first, a large painting was created, then a series of lithographs that include new signs and new words, as if to reawaken and emphasise the astonishment that has never faded for this ancient masterpiece.