The works of the two Italian artists, who have made dialogue and confrontation with other disciplines their stylistic hallmark, will live together in Via Cluverio 7, the workshop/residence.

SINOPIA is, technically, the preparatory drawing used in medieval and Renaissance times for the creation of frescoes and is also the title chosen for the exhibition by painter and sculptor Michele Canzoneri (Palermo, 1944). With this title, the artist intends to highlight the importance of the planning dimension of his work, presented here through a dense selection of works - a dozen works on paper, paintings and sculptures - as well as the complex register, both technical and aesthetic, in which his original artistic language is set: a proceeding between the graphic, pictorial and plastic dimension starting from the dimension of the ‘line’ - as in sinopia - and always poised between conception and planning on the one hand, and completed realisation on the other.

The exhibition, curated by Canzoneri himself, is the first after Covid's forced hiatus and presents to the public some previously unpublished works by the artist, including ‘Rosso Mediterraneo’, a mixed technique on antique paper completed this year. The selection of works on show also allows us to retrace some of the most important stages of Canzoneri's artistic production in his connection with history and with places such as Sicily - thanks to his encounter in Cefalù with the figure of King Roger and in Palermo with the unknown sailor in the basement of the Palazzo dei Normanni - but also with other places in the Mediterranean, such as the archaeological site of Ebla, in Syria (3rd-2nd millennium B.C.).

Two musical works ‘on display’ by composer and musicologist Giovanni Damiani (Palermo, 1966). Heir to a family of engineers and architects, Damiani considers ‘sound as a space to be inhabited that makes us see and touches us, with electronic and natural spatialisations, with new ways of disposing ourselves to listen.’