Many of you are travelling across the globe to celebrate with us in Panarea, so your presence means the world to us and is all we ask for.

If you'd still like to contribute, you can help us building our little art collection for our new home in Milan, using the PayPal link or IBAN below.

We would like to purchase a few pieces by the Sicilian artist Sergio Fiorentino, who lives and works in a reimagined refectory of an 18th-century convent right in the heart of Noto. His paintings evoke a contemporary classicism – a religious strain of idolism and portraiture, with splashes of abstract-style colour, that is then scratched and buffered to weathered effect. The choreography of his studio and living space personifies Sicily’s old-meets-new appeal – where a contemporary mobile structure, mid-century furniture and an aloof minimalism inhabit the grand bones of a historical building.

This is what I try to transfer onto my canvases,” he says of a “magic realism” felt pulsing through its streets and people. “I speak of men; faces and bodies placed in a non-place, far from reality. I try to paint a model of classical beauty but [in] revealing it, I try to protect it.

Discover more:
sergiofiorentino.it
artsy.net/artist/sergio-fiorentino
vogue.com.au

Beneficiary:
Antonello Benati e Giordana Marino
IBAN: IT33C0306909400100000074890
Beneficiary Bank: Intesa San Paolo