REVIEWS
“The painter Sebastiano Cannarella”
…”The artist makes art an expression of life and the act of painting feeds a very personal need that is identified in the praise of the pictorial work.”…
Umberto and Giovanni Gentile
Art critics
National Federation of Art Critics, Rome
on the occasion of the Staff
Gallery Woodstock, London 1978
“The mysteries of Islam and the Arab landscape”
…“He creates his own expressive language, in which thought and creativity evoke an intimate and personal satisfying choice of one’s being, spirit and soul, conditions that arise at the moment of the pictorial rendering in lyrical ignition.”…
Pedro Fiore
Art critic
On the occasion of the Staff
“Islam in Sebastiano Cannarella’s painting”
International Art Company, Milan 1991
“In the Sign of Encounter”
…”It represents forms of artistic expression, giving color and shape to an idea, a thought, a drive that the Master reconstructs readable as a declaration of love.”…
Giorgio Salerno
Director of the Italian Cultural Institute Rabat
on the occasion of the Staff
“In the Sign of Encounter”
Italian Cultural Institute, Rabat 2009
“The rhetoric of letters”
…”From the floating gesture of his brush that scrolls across the surface of the canvas, the symbols and letters thicken and multiply until they seem a teeming anthill of concepts and references”…
Giorgio Salerno
Director of the Italian Cultural Institute Rabat
on the occasion of the Staff
“In the Sign of Encounter”
Italian Cultural Institute, Rabat 2009
“Pulsation”
…”His work comes from childhood memories, from the enchantment that the artist felt when he saw a Sicilian cart in the streets of Syracuse; comes right up to the wheel and that memory, years later, has been transformed into manual skills, modeling clock-frames”…
Fan agar Abdurrahaman Pasquin
on the occasion of the Staff
“Sebastiano Cannarella’s watches”
Contact Club, Milan 1995
“Wait … the Narrating Space”
…”The time of Waiting, the artist has filled it with the secret world of colors, with the density of matter that is released, sometimes with the strength of a symphony and sometimes like the solo of an instrument” …
Ginevra Bompiani
on the occasion of the Collective
“Wait … the Narrating Space”
Leucò Art Gallery, Milan 2013
“The artist of believing aesthetics”
…”Cannarella reflects the Man-Artist worthy of praise”.
Abdallah Stouky
Diplomatic
on the occasion of the Staff
“Arabesque Art”
Beny’Art Gallery, Rabat
“Journey into memories”
…“The artist represents the images as if to seek their truth, the secret of their enchantment to show and grasp the preciousness of that moment which, in his paintings, is immortal and articulated according to a poetic order”…
Rossella Miceli
Councilor for Culture
on the occasion of the Staff
“Once upon a time”
Town Hall, Portopalo di Capo Passero, Syracuse 2018