Two islands, two volcanoes, two cultural worlds facing and intertwining: Etna and Fuji. Around this double geography—both real and symbolic—unfolds Stories of Two Volcanoes, an open conversation with Salvatore Pulvirenti, an artist who for years has lived and worked between Sicily and Japan, allowing these two geologic and cultural forces to shape his visual imagination.

The event is held in conjunction with the exhibition Sotto il vulcano, where Pulvirenti presents a new body of works created specifically for the occasion. As Tito Marci notes, these paintings reveal “colours that dazzle, that heighten the senses to the point of exasperation—reflections of absolute light, of Sicilian tragic joy—suspended in the abstract definition of signs that compose the pictorial space,” a vibrant balance of apparition and symbol.

During the encounter, moderated by Massimo Scaringella (pictured next to the artist), Pulvirenti retraces his artistic and biographical journey, marked by the continuous movement between two cultures that inhabit him profoundly. Sicily, with the archaic power of Etna, and Japan, with the austere perfection of Fuji-yama, become the poles of a single creative path where tradition, memory, and abstraction merge into a personal and distinctive synthesis.

Stories of Two Volcanoes offers a chance to discover the practice of an artist who has transformed geographical duality into an inner landscape—a place of ongoing generation of forms, colours, and energies. A narrative that begins at the surface—matter and light—only to sink into their opposite: that “nothingness” that every representation ultimately contains and evokes.

An encounter to explore an art born from fire, travel, and distance, constantly moving like a transforming flow between two volcanoes and two worlds.