As in a book by Calvino, his drawings are able to project thoughts and emotions into fantastic worlds, thanks to subjects representing figures suspended between dream and reality. These are the distinctive traits of the research of Andrea Nicita, the artist from Vinci who passed away recently and whose works can be seen from Saturday 10 May at the Oratorio di San Carlo (via Testaferrata) in an exhibition entitled “Silent and discreet places”.
The inauguration is scheduled at 4:30 p.m. and will be attended by the Mayor, Francesca Giannì and the Councillor for Culture, Franco Spina.
The exhibition presents some fifteen works (twelve drawings and three elaborate photographs) that retrace the artist’s inner journey, in which a minority photographic representation of certain places and aspects of modern life ends up dissolving in the fluidity of the colours and drawings of animals, trees and human figures, almost as if to identify a sort of metaphor of the homo sapiens of the third millennium.
Some of the works in the exhibition were created in the last years of his life, and therefore constitute a novelty for the public as they will be exhibited for the first time. Moreover, some of these drawings have contributed to the visual imagery of the “In/Canti e Banchi” festival, which will take place in Castelfiorentino from 23 to 25 May, during which time the exhibition – open until and including 25 May – will observe extraordinary opening hours on festival evenings.
“The meeting with Andrea, or rather with his Universe”, observes the Councillor for Culture Franco Spina, “was a thunderbolt. In his world, populated by curious and singular figures, reality loses its concreteness and becomes fluid and purely mental, realised in fantasy. His helmsmen, owls, rhinoceroses become explorers of the irrational in an attempt to give order to the chaos of reality. They are delicate and ambiguous images, built of desires and fears that conceal secret discourses, absurd rules, fragility, but are able to ferry us into fantastic worlds, projecting us towards an alternative imagination. Thank you to Andrea and his family for accepting our proposal to build the new visual imagery of our “In/Canti & Banchi” on these delicate, silent places of the soul. Thank you for giving Castelfiorentino a small portion of that universe”.
