Luca Pancrazzi's Komorebi: Painting, Poetry, and Photography in Palermo

Luca Pancrazzi, a leading Italian artist from the 1990s generation, presents a solo exhibition at RizzutoGallery in Palermo, exploring the Japanese concept of komorebi—light filtering through leaves. His white-on-white acrylic paintings, made with gesso and pigment, create atmospheric landscapes and still lifes that blur the line between image and void. The show features a large diptych titled 'Fuori registro' (Out of Register), a key concept for Pancrazzi referring to misaligned images that embrace error and difference. The exhibition also includes 14 works on paper mixing urban scenes, vegetation, traffic, and forests, rendered in a pointillist style. Photography plays a third role, as Pancrazzi maintains an extensive archive of images that feed his drawing and painting, exploring themes of time, death, and the gaze. The works are described as 'metaphysical brightening,' referencing critic Calvesi, and are seen as visual haikus that capture the infinite within nature.