At the Gam, the exhibition "The Silence of Gesture" by Antonio Recca

“The silence of the gesture. At the exact point where I lose myself, I begin to feel,” is the exhibition of the artist Antonio Recca hosted by the Galleria d’Arte Moderna (Gam) in Catania from March 14 to April 12, 2026. The opening is scheduled for Saturday the 14th at 6 PM, in the presence of Mayor Enrico Trantino. The exhibition project, curated by Giacomo Fanale, is organized in collaboration with the Municipality of Catania.

And how can one not happily get lost in the paintings of Antonio Recca, in the landscapes of infinite blue, in the colors of sky and sea that become states of mind, in that grasping with his gesture the light, the blurred memory, the expanded atmosphere. Hypnotic, engaging paintings, more than places, emotions that stretch across the canvas. Windows to dive into, immerse oneself, let oneself be captured. So that we, the spectators, can also “feel,” to embark on a journey in that landscape. Expanses of water with faded boundaries, landscapes that blend like in a dream, in a memory that resurfaces, where sometimes signs, places, barely visible traces emerge, almost suggested.

The exhibition features fifty landscapes, from 2009 to the present, reinterpreted through the “gesture” of Recca, an artist of great rigor in his continuous aesthetic research, who has lived and worked for years in Milan and abroad, spanning from art to fashion to design. In the works of the retrospective the material layers and thins: light becomes a poetic principle until it transforms abstraction into an inner geography where the beauty of natural and non-anthropized environments emerges.

"There is a landscape that has always lived in me - writes Antonio Recca - It has no clear boundaries, it has no name. It is made of interruptions, of shifts, of blurred memories. When I paint, I do not seek to represent it. I seek to reach it." And again: "Sometimes it is an expanse of water that reflects nothing. Other times it is a rough land, traversed by veins of color. Or it is fog, sand, wind that leaves no footprints."

Visits to the exhibition, with free admission, are scheduled until April 12 from Tuesday to Sunday from 10 AM to 1 PM and from 5 PM to 8 PM.  To complement the exhibition project, curated by 2LAB Studio, a valuable volume that collects the works of the last twenty years of the author, with a critical text by Giacomo Fanale, and graphic design by Carmelo Stompo.