Elio Cassara'

Elio Cassarà was born in Mazara del Vallo in 1974. The artist’s painting tends to abstract art, attributable to the intense effects of lights and the expressiveness of color in his narration of landscapes. In his paintings we can see the evolutionary nature of painting, based on the careful observation of the environment which dissolves into a fantastic vision, full of suggestions and imaginative power. After training with some local artists, in 1997 Cassarà lived in Venice where he studied the masters of the twentieth century in greater depth and in particular his attention was captured by Giorgio Morandi’s still-life. These were the years in which he devoted himself intensely to the study of painting; he was strongly influenced by the German romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich, the symbolism of Marx Klinger and Arnold Böcklin and the ideas of the radical Pre-Raphaelites. In 2001 he moved to Berlin where he lived for many years and hosted several personal exhibitions. The period spent in Germany and his admiration for Gerhard Richter influenced Cassarà’s work which became more abstract and expressive and it was at this stage that the landscape became the main subject of the artist’s work. In his paintings, he depicts vitality ...

Museum permanent collections:

Foundation Orestiadi - Museo delle Trame Mediterranee in Gibellina, Siciliy, Italy

CAMUSAC – Cassino Museum of Contemporary Art, Italy

Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia

Diaghilev Museum of Modern Art in St. Petersburg, Russia

MUSEUM – Osservatorio dell’arte in Sicily, Bagheria (PA), Italy

2024 - Galerie Sievi, Berlin, Germany

2023 – Spazio Contemporaneo Agorà, Palermo, Italy

2023 – Diaghilev Museum of Modern Art, St. Petersburg, Russia

2022 – A.S. Pushkin Public Library, Moscow, Russia

2021 – Novgorod Center of Contemporary Art, Russia

2018 – San Gregorio Art Gallery, Venice, Italy

2017 – Wunderkammer7, Venice, Italy

2015 – Galerie Hugo Cassel, Berlin, Germany

2014 – Palazzo Ca`Zanardi, Venice, Italy

2013 – Galerie Sievi, Berlin, Germany

2010 – Galerie Sievi, Berlin, Germany

2009 – Alexander Alvarez Contemporary Art, Alessandria, Italy

2007 – Narodni Muzej, Zajecar, Serbia

2006 – Art Klub Canaletto, Belgrad, Serbia

1999 – Galleria V&V Projects, Vicenza, Italy

1999 – Scoletta dei Calegheri, Venice, Italy

1995 – Galleria Spazio Arte, Gavi – Italia

1993 – Chiesa della SS. Annunziata, Alessandria – Italia

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 - Blu Sicilia, Sicily, Italy

2023 – Orestiadi Foundation – Museo delle trame mediterranee, Gibellina, Italy

2019 – “Seen anything interesting?”, Bugno Art Gallery, Venice, Italy

2018 – Bugno Art Gallery, Venice, Italy

2018 – VIII Rassegna d’Arte Contemporanea, Casa dei Carraresi, Treviso, Italy

2016 – Galerie Hugo Cassel, Berlin, Germany

2010 – I Concorso di Pittura Hote...