Catania, Zuccaro’s mystical and rarefied narration crosses Battiato’s sense of spirituality

Visual meditation. It is the exhibition of Peter Zuccaro which, between painting, music and poetry, crosses the profound sense of spirituality of Franco Battiatostarring with the author of an unedited video installationgenesis and cornerstone of the exhibition project scheduled in Catania, in the halls of Ursino Castle, from January 15th to April 30th 2023. The exhibition is produced by Lauro Chiazzese Foundation for Art and Culture with the sponsorship of Municipality of Catania and the partnership of Permanent Theater of Catania for the fixtures and lights.

Among the interiors of basilicas with golden reverberations, domes in dim light lit by glimpses of light, the blue of distant skies that changes color at sunset, at Ursino Castle a narration will be staged mystical and rarefiedscanned by forty works by Piero Zuccaro, artist and professor of painting techniques at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catanzaro. Three cycles brought together for the occasion by the curator, the art historian Sergio Troisi: 14 oils, 12 pastels and 20 serigraphs culminating with the video-installation meditative Uncertain and Oscillating Interior conceived, written and directed by Zuccaro with the participation of Battiato (1945-2021) on the long and intense notes of the Kyrie, the first movement of the powerful Archaic Mass: a project cherished for a long time by the two artists, developed over a period of time between 2013 and 2017 and which sees the light in the thirtieth anniversary of the composition of the work, performed for the first time in the upper Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi, in October 1993.

Complete the installationunmistakable voice of Battiatorecorded in 2017, while reciting the verses of Shitao, a Chinese painter who speaks here of purity of spirit as a precondition ofauthentic painting. While Zuccaro makes him the words of St. John of the Cross who asks God to manifest his presence.

The exhibition is realized with the partnership of Permanent Theater of Catania whose technicians will take care of transport, lights and exhibition set-up. While the catalog – in progress – will have the editorial look curated by Francis Messina, art director and graphic designer to whom Battiato has entrusted the cover of several albums. Project sponsors Cora Banks.


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