The initiative “Art in Park” has in view a series of solo exhibitions of National and International well know Contemporary Master Sculptors. Art works in marble, bronze, and ceramic are placed in the beautiful park that surrounds the EXCELSIOR PALACE HOTEL, in TAORMINA. Following the route, immersed in the green vegetation, art and nature blend together. The project “Art in Park”, wanted by the EXCELSIOR PALACE HOTEL, organized with the collaboration Galleria Gagliardi and the artistic direction of Stefano Gagliardi.

Now, this finds are hanging on the walls, only just cleared from the earth that has con­cealed them from the human sight, throughout centuries. They seem like great modernity hearers and if deeply expressed, they could disclose mankind evolution.

 It’s interesting to let them suggest, in their rhythmical graphic composition, stories about Mediterranean civilisation. This longed human familiarity with fishes becomes clear in Sakana’s harmonic and essential shape, a black bronze obtained from a Carrara marble sculp­ture.

 The materials, Nino Ventura skilfully matches, are the same ones men used, from the very beginning, to hand down to posterity knowledge, thought and images, showing artistry in the awareness of the surrounding elements.The warmly red Castellamonte clay joins to bronze, wood, lava, sand, pigments and enamels, giving sensations and telling us earliest times stories.

The title Mediterraneo Terra Mia springs from the author’s deep connection with a  geographic area that has always been cradle of civilisation, of cultural exchanges and  contamination. Nino Ventura has succeeded in elaborating an universal­ly intelligible  language, with a synthesis of meaningful languages that have marked out the  Mediterranean cours­es, rnaking out the actual rich blend of different cultures.

Diego Bionda