Exhibition promoted by the Tortorici Brothers, second-generation antique dealers and art and culture enthusiasts, to celebrate the painter's connection to this territory.
The exhibition features 32 works, including paintings, oils on canvas, watercolors, and pastels, by the Palermitan painter Giovanni Lentini (1882-1948). The works come from the Athena collection of the F.lli Tortorici in Palermo and have been carefully selected to illustrate the variety of genres and themes tackled by the artist, with a particular focus on his connection to the valleys of Bormio, where he spent holidays with his family.
Son of the renowned Palermitan landscape painter Rocco Lentini, Giovanni, after his training in Palermo, moved to Milan, where he became a lecturer at the Accademia di Brera. His artistic career, marked by significant recognition in exhibitions and international showcases, developed during the years of the Great War and the subsequent fascist twenty-year period.
While remaining true to his personal figurative language, Lentini managed to interpret the anxieties of a complex historical period with modernity, ranging from portraits to landscapes, urban views, and interior scenes. The works exhibited in Bormio testify to his ability to capture the rarefied brightness of mountain and lake landscapes, as well as the winter atmospheres of the Lombard capital, with intense and poignant lyricism.
The exhibition will be open to the public from August 9 to 20 at the following times:
- Every day: 10.30 am - 12.30 pm and 4.00 pm - 7.00 pm
- Inauguration on Saturday, August 9 at 4.30 pm
- The exhibition is accompanied by a monograph on the painter
Free entry
