(from the Parish of Maria SS. Immacolata – Anime Sante) The “Ianua Coeli” art exhibition is an initiative promoted by the youth group of the Parish of Maria SS. Immaculate – Holy Souls in Bagheria and by the parish priest Don Giovanni Basile. It is an art exhibition dedicated to one of the most represented subjects in the history of art: the Madonna.
In 1954 the then Archbishop of Palermo Cardinal Ernesto Ruffini crowned the simulacrum of the Immaculate Conception which is venerated in the Parish, calling her the “Mother and Queen of Bagheria”. To honor our beloved Queen, the youth group, in concert with the parish priest, has decided to organize an exhibition of sacred art in homage to her, involving all the workers of our territory.
The art exhibition aims to promote, with an event never before held in Bagheria, on the one hand the devotion to the Madonna and on the other to enhance the arts and craftsmanship of the numerous talents of which our territory is particularly rich. This gives the exhibition a cultural and social value that goes beyond the religious aspect, aspiring to the promotion and recovery of Sicilian genius.
The vast range and variety of the artists involved constitutes the most original point of our event; among them there are in fact illustrious names and young newcomers, art veterans and new recruits.
There are very established artists with a long career behind them such as Carlo Puleo, Vincenzo Gennaro, Lucia Stefanetti, Paolo Turturro, Giuseppe Tuzzolino. These are just some of the illustrious names alongside many others, perhaps less famous, but no less good.
The works are the most disparate: paintings, sculptures, icons, engravings, wood carvings, iron sculptures, embroidery, miniatures, nativity scenes and nativity scenes. Nothing is missing to delight the sight and the spirit in front of such an excellent gallery of works that will truly make you touch the sky.
