On Saturday, May 9th, from 18:00 to 20:00, we open the doors of our newly renovated gallery space in Sambuca di Sicilia with Mosaica, the third chapter of our Il Bivio series.
Ten contemporary artists from across Sicily will present original works spanning painting, photography, mixed media, and sculpture, and will be present at the opening to meet you in person.
Meet Nomad’s artists:
Simone Geraci
Simone Geraci began his practice in printmaking, and that precision still lives in his hand. Today he works primarily in oil painting and drawing, bringing the same attentiveness to mark and surface with the saturation of color. He lives and works in Palermo.
Carla Sutera Sardo
Carla Sutera Sardo traded a law degree for a camera and never looked back. Self-taught and instinct-driven, she photographs women in landscape, conjuring images that feel dreamed rather than taken. She lives and works in Agrigento. Her work has appeared in Vogue Italia and L’Œil de la Photographie, and earned her recognition at the Sony World Photography Awards.
Marilina Marchica
Marilina Marchica is drawn to what remains after things fall apart. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, she works in painting and mixed media, using eroded walls, ruins, and architectural fragments to map the quiet relationship between human presence and time. She lives and works in Agrigento. Her works are held in collections including the Fabbriche Chiaramontane and the Museo delle Trame Mediterranee in Gibellina.
Giuseppe Agnello
Giuseppe Agnello is one of Sicily’s most respected sculptors and a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo. He lives and works in Racalmuto. He is perhaps best known for his bronze portraits of Leonardo Sciascia in Racalmuto and Andrea Camilleri in Agrigento, two writers he knew personally. His work is rooted in the figure, in nature, and in the island’s long memory.
Lorenzo Maniscalco
Lorenzo Maniscalco grew up in Sambuca di Sicilia in a family of artists and went on to study mathematics. Both worlds live in his work. He paints and makes ceramics, folding geometric structures into faces, embraces, and dreamlike color, where the patterns of Sicilian majolica become something entirely his own. He lives and works in Sambuca di Sicilia.
Pietro Motisi
Pietro Motisi is a photographer and visual artist who lives and works in Palermo. His practice, active since 2002, moves between photography, painting, and installation. His long-term project CEMENTO mapped the illegal construction scarring the Sicilian landscape and won the 2012 Reginald Salisbury Travel Award.
Roberto Zuffanti
Roberto Zuffanti, based in Catania, moves between Sicily and New York, and just as freely between painting, sculpture, collage, and drawing. There are no fixed rules in his studio, and it shows in the best way. His work is held in public and private collections and has been exhibited at the Museo Civico Castello Ursino in Catania and in galleries across Italy and the United States.
Anna Kennel
Anna Kennel was born in Palermo, where she lives and works. With a practice in printmaking and oil painting, spanning more than fifty years, Anna has exhibited across Italy and internationally, including New York, Lima, and Valencia.
Samantha Torrisi
Samantha Torrisi lives and works on the slopes of Mount Etna. Trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania, she works across painting, photography, and video, exploring nature, memory, and ecological tension through a poetic, dreamlike lens. Her work has been exhibited in Italy, Madrid, Athens, and Paris, and is held in public and private collections.
Demetrio Di Grado
Demetrio Di Grado lives and works in Caltagirone. He came to art through hip hop culture before finding his true medium: collage. Since 2016 he has assembled introspective works from magazine and photograph fragments of the 1920s through the 1950s, overlaying figures with his signature gesture of covering the eyes. His work has appeared on walls and in galleries across Sicily, Italy, and Europe.
