Ragusa, preview of the documentary film “Carmelo Cappello, Il volo di Icaro”: a journey between art and biography.

Saturday 9 November at 18.30 pm, at the “Mimì Arezzo” Cultural Shopping Centre in via Giacomo Matteotti 61, the preview of the documentary by Vincenzo Cascone and Andrea Guastella “Carmelo Cappello, Il volo di Icaro” will be presented.

Will introduce the works Carmelo Arezzo, president of the Foundation "Cesare and Doris Zipelli" which will be followed by the speech of the mayor Peppe Cassì who will offer greetings from the municipal administration and the critical testimonies of Danilo Amione, Giorgio Flaccavento and Paolo Nifosì.

The screening will be attended by directors Vincenzo Cascone and Andrea Guastella and Carmelo Cappello's son, Giovanni Cappello.

Carmelo Cappello's art unfolds along a parable that, starting in the 1930s from nature and humanity, in the 1996s he arrived at forms of pure abstraction; a parable which, lasting about half a century – Cappello died in XNUMX –, can also be understood in a biographical sense, as a passage from the artist's youth to his maturity, from the warm stone of the Iblei to the modern infrastructures of Milano, his chosen homeland.

The Flight of Icarus, a documentary film by Vincenzo Cascone and Andrea Guastella commissioned and produced by the “Cesare e Doris Zipelli” Foundation, reconstructs this long itinerary by visiting Cappello's places, from the North to the South of Italy, and interviewing, in addition to Carmelo Arezzo, in his dual role as critic and president of the Zipelli Foundation, to the artist's son Giovanni Cappello and his wife, the gallery owner Patrizia Serra, the main interpreters of the sculptor, from Marco Meneguzzo to Rachele Ferrario to Elena Pontiggia to Flaminio Gualdoni to the late Claudio Cerritelli, who passed away during the making of the documentary.

The result is a well-rounded portrait in which the history of the communities, cultures and worlds inhabited by the artist is intertwined with his “flight”: it is an integral part of his search for spatiality, clarity, absolute perfection that is only accidentally at home in physical places, and is much easier to find in dreams.