The City of Trapani wants to recognize the right and deserved tribute to the master Carmelo Morreale, an artist from Trapani who passed away on Saturday in Gibellina, the city that hosted him for about 10 years.
The mayor Giacomo Tranchida, together with the council, expresses his condolences to the family and to those who appreciated and loved him during his life, he also informs the city community that the funeral chapel will be set up in the farewell hall in Erice – Casa Santa via Giulio Cesare 24 (Ag Funebre Vito Polisano) from Tuesday 28/05/2024 and the funerals, after those which will be celebrated in Gibellina this afternoon, will also take place in Erice/Trapani at the church of Our Lady of Fatima on Thursday 30/05/ 2024 at 11.30am to give the many people who knew him the opportunity to say their final farewell to their fellow citizen.
We like to remember Carmelo Morreale with this brief biographical note:
Carmelo Morreale was born in Trapani on 14 November 1942. His father, Giuseppe, a building contractor and historic municipal councilor of the Italian social movement, at the age of twenty – he says – found him a job at the tax office. He will be fired after a week, caught tearing up the files of those who didn’t have the money to pay for them. In 1968 he reached Rome and then Milan to indulge his extraordinary vocation for painting. Here he joined the gallery owner Schettini’s group. These were years of great success and appreciation. He undergoes and reworks the influences of great artists such as Burri, Fontana, Morandi. The explosion of the figurative in the Milanese market caught him unprepared. He returns to Trapani after almost a decade. Here to protest against an asphyxiated market dedicated more to negotiations on the price of canvases than to their value, in 1975 he made a bonfire of his paintings in a square in Trapani. From this moment the protest becomes stronger and more critical. And his works are increasingly beautiful and warm. He takes up a bohemian life, trading canvases for basic necessities and clothes. Trapani becomes the scene of his art, the setting and vision of an unparalleled artistic installation, adorned with irreverent mockery and fantastic visions.
