The exhibition "Distant Songs" ("Canti Lontani") by Italian artist Giovanni Matano

The exhibition of Giovanni Mattano – the Italian artist of older generation  combines vivid expression, bright colours and unusual shapes. Known as a painter and graphics artist, this time G. Matano presents sculptural objects. The works depict mythological, strange, unknown creatures with unusual heads and thematically perfectly complement the devils' exhibition at the museum.

In painter‘s G. Matano works one can notice his very keen search for characters and sharply expressed post-primitivism. They can reveal myths spread in the author's native lands in Campania, the ruins of Pompeii, Naples, Capua as well as in more distant countries, such as Africa or Oceania.

For his sculptures G. Matano uses red clay found in Castellamonte and this distinguishes him from authors. This material has been known since ancient times, its organic composition contains dust of the past, so symbolically it is comprised out from our ancestors.

The title of the exhibition actually refers to distant songs. It seems that the exhibits impart sounds, laments, chants, thus comprising up a perfect chorus which returns us to the feast, rituals, joy, sadness, or other human feelings.