Emilio D’Elia’s Apeiron-Visioni d’infinito at Museo Nuova Era, Bari

Emilio D’Elia (born 1958 in San Pietro Vernotico) is a significant yet reclusive Southern Italian artist. His solo exhibition 'Apeiron-Visioni d’infinito,' curated by Cecilia Pavone, showcases his work from the last two decades at the Museo Nuova Era in Bari. D’Elia’s paintings feature anthropomorphic beings floating in layered, cosmic spaces of blue, yellow, green, light, and darkness—a mental landscape he has explored for thirty years. The intimate, philosophical works function as a private diary, sometimes including indecipherable signs, embodying what the curator calls a 'new humanism of painting.' The exhibition follows a recent show at Art&Ars Gallery in Puglia, and D’Elia awaits a deserved retrospective in a regional museum where he began his career before moving to Rome and later Paris, where he lived for an extended period.