Giuseppe Vassallo's 'In sogno era una sfera bianca' at Ceravento, Pescara

Giuseppe Vassallo (Palermo, 1990) presents 'In sogno era una sfera bianca' at Ceravento in Pescara, an exhibition exploring the fraught human-nature relationship through a contemporary Arcadian lens. The show juxtaposes bucolic landscapes with figures—some blindfolded and awkward, others in intimate communion with nature—rendered in muted whites and grays. Vassallo draws on mythological references, including the Preseleni (pre-lunar inhabitants of Arcadia) and the photography of Wilhelm von Gloeden, to evoke a lost harmony. The title references a dream of a white sphere, symbolizing perfection and ambiguity. The works, described as 'attempts at coexistence between figure and landscape,' are arranged in a mosaic-like installation. The artist's native Sicily appears in the landscapes, stripped of color to underscore the difficulty of co-belonging with nature. The exhibition runs at Ceravento, Pescara.