Etna Eternal Flame is the first contemporary art exhibition exhibited at an altitude of 1980mt on the areas of the 2001 eruption. An ambitious project promoted by the Basaltika Cultural Association which obtained the patronage of the Municipality of Nicolosi and the Etna Park Authority for the exhibition on the areas of the lava front that affected the 2001 eruption on the South-East slope. The Sicilian edition of the project will end in October 2023 and will then be hosted overseas at the Monira Foundation international contemporary art study center in New York in May 2024. Seeing the sunrise from the central crater of the highest active volcano in Europe it was one of the goals with the greatest emotional impact of Goethe and of the great travelers of that era. Painters, illustrators, engravers always traveling to tell the southernmost part of the Old Continent with their sensitivity and art. Authorial awareness on the part of artists today is required as a contribution to re-reading a territory and therefore for further clarity, for the study, analysis and promotion of cultural heritage. Reflections, visual and cognitive suggestions sensitive to the artists' abilities lead the individual to an awareness where the relationship with the landscape will not have remained only a document but will itself become a new thought. The lock-down period brings the entire planet to its knees, moves the sensitivity of artists and scientists, who discuss the relationship between man and nature. In the months spent in isolation at home, an urgency arose between the artists designated by the contemporary art study center of the Monira Foundation in New York and the Orestiadi Foundation in Gibellina who, coordinated by Dr. Ysabel Pinyol Blasi, developed a site specific project. The Ass. Cultural Basaltika, which made these connections possible, chooses the Etna volcano as a place of primitive thought, travel and memory through which the artists will connect the landscape to the language of contemporary art. «Etna Eternal Flame - explains the curator of the exhibition, Ysabel Pinyol Blasi - is an artistic conversation on those alchemies and on that fleeting moment in which the flame is caught before it turns into ashes. It is an authorial and visionary dialogue between the artists Samantha Torrisi and Oriana Tabacco, who live at the foot of this great Mother "Etna" and the international authors Aleksandar Duravcevic and Johannes Pfeiffer, who have redesigned the place and created new connections with it. Etna, a fluid land in continuous change, expresses and translates the thought inherent in the work of art itself, that is, the continuous change and vulnerability. During the opening months of the exhibition, talks are scheduled with professionals in the sector for social economic, scientific and anthropological surveys on the territory under the patronage of INGV AIV Fondazione Gibellina, Monira Foundation.