Current exhibitions

Galleria Traghetto is pleased to announce the first solo show in Rome by Filippo La Vaccara, young Sicilian artist who since a long time lives and works in Milan.

By looking at La Vaccara’s works - water colours, acrylics on canvas and wood carvings - aspects of his poetic that catch our attention are represented by the fairy-tale and highly imaginative style, illustrative and spontaneous such as a comic strip, but the use of the light and the colours testifies a direct influence from the tradition of Italian painting’s masters. The images are poetic fragments of the everyday world that seems to be never banal and often enchanted such as a tale floating in a timeless dimension. The characters are involved in daily and familiar situations such as a barbecue or a walk in the green.

Only apparently his paintings seem to be narrative micro-stories, but in reality they are only a still-image from where the spectators are invited to create their own version of the story. “I don’t like the idea of creating something nice to hang on the wall. I prefer to hang a doubt, a problem, something that could or should be resolve”.

Also his sculptures, three-dimensional characters that belong to the same fantastic world of the paintings, represent gestures that allude to a narrative universe from which they are extrapolated. In this way the spectators have the chance to imagine and reconstruct the story.

In show from may, 13th to june, 28th, 2010

Untitled, 2009, acrylic on canvas, cm. 200x200

Susanna, 2006, acrylic on canvas paper, cm. 48x64.5