Giulio De Mitri's Cosmic Geometry at Bari's Santa Scolastica Museum

Giulio De Mitri (born 1952 in Taranto) presents a solo exhibition at the Bastione Aragonese of the Museo Archeologico di Santa Scolastica in Bari. The show features a cycle of rigorous, semantically eloquent works that engage in a complex dialogue with the historically layered venue. De Mitri's pieces are framed by an ascetic total white, incorporating geometric structures—triangles, squares, circles—that enclose luminous narratives. The artist employs opalescent stratifications to dim the radiant power of light signs, fostering meditative evocations of astral trajectories, fixed or pulsating signals, halos, and milky epiphanies that oscillate between macrocosm and microcosm, recalling forming embryos or galactic magma. Titles such as 'Percezioni cosmiche I e II,' 'Spazi sacrali,' 'Genesi,' and 'Paesaggi dell'anima' further guide a meditative approach, delineating an artistic journey rendered with extreme synthesis and cold luminosities serving meridional moods and existential reflections. The exhibition is reviewed by Marilena Di Tursi, journalist and art critic for Corriere del Mezzogiorno / Corriere della Sera and contributor to Segno arte contemporanea.