Antonio Sciacca

 Antonio Sciacca was born in Catania May 13, 1957. Sciacca has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts of Catania and is currently professor of painting at the Academy of Art and Restoration of Nike Catania. He Lives and works between Catania and Florence.

In 1978 he was selected by the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome for the International Exhibition of Modern Art in Glasgow. He graduated with a thesis on Francis Bacon, who he personally interviewed in London at Bacon’s Art studio.  Alberto Burri  has also become a friend and Patron of his work!!. Both Bacon and Burri express positive comments about his artistic abilities.

In the 90s he founded a Bologna-cultural artistic movement called Metropolismo, which addresses current social issues, such as consumerism and the jaws as a status symbol. This movement involved a group of international artists who exhibited their works in Rome at the Flaminio ,  with the critiques and presence of Omar Calabrese, Renato Minor, Alberto Abruzzese and Valerio Dehò. Among the numerous exhibitions of Metropolismo the most significant was in Madrid (Italian Cultural Institute) in 1995, and that of Rome (Museo del Risorgimento - Victorian) in 2000, with the presentation of Achille Bonito Oliva, the theoretician of the movement. Other art historians who follows the artist commenting on some of his solo shows is Vittorio Sgarbi.

Exhibitions

Solo and group exhibitions 1974 International Exhibition of Youth Art and Craft, Glasgow (by the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome). 1987 Arte Fiera, Bologna - Art Expo, Bari, catalog with text by P. Restany 1989 Galerie Pro Arte Kasper, Morges (Switzerland). 1993 Metropolismo, Space Flaminio, Rome; catalog with texts by A. Abruzzese, 0. Calabrese, V. Dehò and R. Minor. 1993 Galerie Pro Arte Kasper, Morges (Switzerland). Metropolismo 1994, Syracuse, catalog with text by V. Sgarbi. 1995 Metropolismo, Italian Institute of Culture, Madrid, catalog with text A. Bonito Oliva. 1995 Tempera Art Gallery, Lineart Ghent (collective). 1995 Tempera Art Gallery, Brussels (staff). 1995 Metropolismo, Young Museum, Oak (MN); catalog with texts by A. Bonito Oliva and O. Calabrese. 1997 Centre de Langue et Culture ltalienne, Paris. 1997 Tempera Art Gallery, Lineart Ghent (collective). 1997 Galerie Pro Arte Kasper, Morges (Switzerland). 1998 The Roman Aquarium, Rome. 1998 Columbus Citizen Foundation, New York (collective). 1998 Teatro Vittorio Emanuele Messina (collective). 1998 Norman Palace, Palermo (collective). 1999 Museum of the Risorgimento, Rome. 2000 Victorian Complex. 2000 Art Gallery Perlini, Reggio Calabria. 2001 Art Nuvò, Catania, presentation of V. Sgarbi. 2001 Art Gallery Perlini, Reggio Calabria, presentation of V. Sgarbi. 2002 Albanian Art Gallery, Matera. 2002 Art Nuvò, Catania. 2003 Forms, Hotel Principe, Venice (collective). 2003 "Casino" (collective), Knokke-Heist (Belgium). 2004 Galerie Pro Arte Kasper, Morges (Switzerland). 2005 "Vanitas Vanitatum" Art Time, Brescia. 2006 Museum, Castello Ursino Catania. 2006 Earthly Allegories, Himmelberger Gallery. Francisco. 2008 In Paradise - Gardens of the Biennale, Venice. 2010 Gallery Davico, Turin, Italy 2012 Palace of Bruz.