In this exhibition titled “Under the Volcano,” Salvatore Pulvirenti presents a core of works painted specifically for this occasion. As the title suggests, the works gather the synthesis of the two cultures that have always permeated the artist’s creative output: Italian and Japanese.

Thinking of the symbol of his island, Sicily, and of Mount Etna, and of Mount Fuji, the symbol of another island, Japan, these new works—which strongly reflect this scorching summer—feature < colors that dazzle, alert the senses to their extreme – reflections of absolute light, of tragic Sicilian joy – remaining suspended in the abstract definition of the signs that compose the pictorial space, gathered in the symbolic order that realizes and organizes the narrative form, preserved in decisive strokes that arrange immediate appearances... Everything remains on the surface, paradoxically sinking into that “nothing” of which, after all, everything, every representation, in the order of depiction, is a symbol. (Tito Marci)>.