Biography
Agatino Raciti. was born in Catania. After taking his secondary school certificate in Istituto d’arte, he graduates in architecture and opens “A&A” in Catania, an Art and Design studio.
He takes part to various national and international design competitions. He wins in 1996, when still a student, the competition “ il centro nei centri, 12 piazze per il territorio di Messina”.
In 2001 he decides to organize his first art painting exhibition called “Violence of Life” and a year later he goes on with “soul landscapes” and “ Reliquemis” until 2003, when he exhibits in the permanent exhibition in Milan with ”dove abita l’utopia”, a collective exhibition dedicated to Libero Ferretti.
In 2002 he wins the “ Napoli Cultural Classic” in the painting section. The success he has gained and the selection for the first painting exhibition in Fonopoli (gennaio 2003), have pushed him to organize a lot of exhibitions in different national and foreign towns.
His artistic work wants to be an apparent transposition and temporary simulation of all those situations eluding modern life and that , on the contrary, disclose and reveal in private, far from authoritarian and conservatory schemes.
Agatino lives and works between Catania and Milano,
