TERRE ACQUA ARIA  - FELICE NITTOLO

from April 5 to October 28, 2025 – Curated by Paolo Sacchini

The site-specific exhibition conceived by artist Felice Nittolo for Isola del Garda stems from the sensations and impressions he experienced when he first visited this enchanting, peaceful, and secluded place, where one can breathe serenity and calm.

Today’s Isola del Garda, a territory inhabited since Roman times, holds the traces and memories of illustrious figures, such as Saint Francis of Assisi, who in 1221 built a small hermitage here, which also hosted Saint Anthony of Padua.

Dante Alighieri mentions the island in the 20th canto of the Divine Comedy.

Felice Nittolo creates a fascinating and evocative path by letting his works (mosaics, sculptures, paintings, photographs) engage in dialogue with the spaces of the neo-Gothic Venetian palace, creating site-specific installations in various locations such as the House of Fairies, the rooms of the Pelagra (former tavern), the Venetian palace, and throughout the visitor path.

The artist enriches these places of silence with his golden mosaic tiles. He also presents around ten photographs that pay homage to the memory sites of San Felice del Benaco.

His material versatility, rich in inner suggestions, generates a strong perceptual sense of reality, immersing the observer in a dimension where space and time merge.

FELICE NITTOLO 

Born in 1950 in Capriglia Irpina and a resident of Ravenna, driven by his love for mosaics, Felice Nittolo is one of the leading artists in contemporary mosaic art.

Over the course of his fifty-year artistic journey, Nittolo has gained national and international recognition with a series of proposals that, if not revolutionary, have been strongly provocative, such as Aritmismo (1984) and the Manifesto of the New Tradition (1992). Nittolo, while defending the autonomy of mosaic language, has sensed the deep connections between mosaic and theater, mosaic and music, mosaic and poetry. Felice Nittolo moves naturally within numerous expressive possibilities, yet at the core of each lies his unchanging artistic personality, in that search for synthesis that places mosaic at the center of every experience, at the center of every orbit.

Among his numerous solo exhibitions and festivals, highlights include international art fairs such as Arco Madrid, Artefiera Bologna, Expo Arte Bari, Artexpo New York, Art 14 Basel, and Fiac Paris.

He has had many solo exhibitions in Italy, Europe, the United States, and Japan.

Numerous monographic catalogs have been published about his work.

His pieces are present in museums and public and private collections in Italy and abroad.

www.felicenittolo.it felicenittolo50@gmail.com