Sebastiano Impellizzeri's 'E se domani non torno, brucia tutto' at Société Interludio

Sebastiano Impellizzeri (born 1982 in Catania) presents 'E se domani non torno, brucia tutto' at Société Interludio in Turin's Piazza Vittorio Veneto. The exhibition title echoes gender gap activism slogans, yet the paintings feature quiet, minimalistic palettes. Impellizzeri's works reduce reality to barely figurative references, with hand-stretched canvases and self-mixed pigments. 'Nudo disteso' (oil on canvas, 2022) uses the body as an expressive line of memory, while 'Paesaggio' (oil on canvas, 2022) depicts a landscape as a pictorial trace of a lived but unreal place. The polyptych 'Keep smoking' (2022) substitutes painted film with Bravo rolling papers glued onto canvas, becoming synthetic relational papiers collés. The artist's chosen non-places are city parks hosting precarious encounters and 'battuage' in spaces losing objective form. For the first time, Impellizzeri includes video experiments with 'Phthóngos' (2022). The installation 'E se domani non torno brucia tutto' occupies one room: a hanging piece of raw canvas colored with dry pink pigment, one end bearing burn marks—a possible hidden contact between painting and life. Photo by Max Tomasinelli.