Francesco Surdi's 'OCCHIO OCCHI' Transforms Haus der Kunst Palermo into Inhabitable Landscape

Francesco Surdi's exhibition 'OCCHIO OCCHI' at Haus der Kunst in Palermo presents a landscape of bodies and images that interact to create a material transposition, generating a place to be inhabited. The Italian-American artist (born 1986 in Partinico) developed the works over four years, intentionally materializing a visual archive whose signs testify to human relationships. His drawings challenge two-dimensionality by invading and occupying space. Language plays a fundamental role: anecdotes, dialect phrases, poems, and maxims create a disorienting matrix within which graphic and material forms establish boundaries for a new world inhabited by abstract entities. The exhibition was curated by Mario Bronzino, who studied Contemporary Languages at the Academy of Fine Arts of Catania and writes about contemporary art.