"SIGNS OF and OF DREAMS"

exhibition of graphics maestro Enzo Naples by Michele Principato Trosso The show conceived back in 2005 presented in these years only paintings. This edition has been able to pursue a new emotion, discovering new signs in the vast panorama of contemporary engravers. Four teachers encouraged, appreciated and successful on a national and international level, are presented with a selection of valuable works on paper. Are: Enzo Naples, Olympia Morgante, Rosalia Marchiafava Arnone and Spanish Macarena Marin who lived for years in Sicily. The beauty of emotions through the mark engraved by etching, aquatint, chisels, dry ends, woodcuts, paintings springs where you re-establish the traditional aspect ratio of a path graph that reaches such a value of recognition and identifies activities that the engraving ASSOCIATION SCORING SICILIAN, of which the four masters belong to propose to the general public. It is emphasized the cultural and social value of an ancient discipline which is the graphic art engraved, where the memory of the past can merge with the present one. The first appointment with the teacher Sicilian Enzo Naples, his work unfolds through language thematic cycles easily identifiable: the memoirs found through the study of the female figure, the series Cities engraved bestiary, marinas, trees ... The second appointment with the Agrigento Olimpia Morgante, in the field of classical intaglio, both direct and indirect worked seeking an emotional performance that does not exclude a priori formal clarity and readability. In more recent years has focused on a more continuous the burin, trying flexibility and expressiveness of sign matrices and copper and zinc. Engravings always moves from something concrete (a landscape, a flower, an animal, a human figure) consonant with an emotional state in which the form becomes visible expression. At the third round of the Spanish Macarena Marin, where the meeting with the engraving technique appears to be a shock, he feels he has finally found the perfect tool to give life to his inner world. Thus begins a long journey to work in quiet, continuous research in the ways of the sign and its expressive possibilities through the many intaglio. At the end plates and return a surreal dream world populated by fantastical creatures small, sometimes clumsy other disturbing, lost cities on maps do not exist, flowers, trees that thrive in the chaos of imaginary forest .... an invitation for ' observer to be lost through a secret route and parallel Crossed Destinies. The final round has Rosalia Marchiafava Arnone, painter, sculptor of different rock types, and author of engravings which: woodcuts, linocuts, etchings, aquatints, soft paint ..... In his works we grasp the theme of mutazioni.Attenziona labor man with his destructive power has "transformed" the planet. And then the sharp lines of torn barren rock, the sun explodes in signs new long-legged and butterflies settle in what is left of nature that continues to live. Sign that takes color in a new era when the earth opens to life, leaving rivers of hot lava.