The MIIT Museum in Turin presents the personal exhibition ‘Vito Garofalo: Anime mie’ from Thursday 4th to Sunday 14th July 2024 (inauguration Thursday 4th July from 6.00 pm). On display are around thirty works including oil, acrylic and mixed media works and a fun and beautiful corner shop with some gadgets by VG Vito Garofalo.
“Vito Garofalo’s Souls inhabit houses, gardens, rivers, cities, streets… a daily life that however turns into a vision in the eyes of the artist. Like all authentic poets of our world, Vito Garofalo expresses his interiority with passion, sincerity, without aestheticizing superstructures typical of contemporary art, leaving the task of grasping its meaning, or even simply a feeling. The colour, the line that draws the space, the pictorial application dug into the pigment make each of his works an emotional journey”.
“His ‘Souls’ are born from a deeply investigated existential condition, from a careful look at himself and on society that the artist has been carrying out for many years now, a sort of art-therapy that allows the author to look inside himself, to then release your experience to new life. The ‘Souls’ twirl, play, mutate, transform in a continuous metamorphosis, metaphors of life that changes, of emotions that are never the same.”
“With irony and biting disenchantment Vito Garofalo draws his own world, leaving to the imagination of the observer the pleasure of discovery, of interpretation which, as in a game of roles, allows one to identify with his characters, recognizing others, all immersed in a dynamic everyday life and always on the move. Vito Garofalo brings his experience as an artist, actor, creator to the canvas, through the brushstroke he defines its power, its expressive strength and with a purity of language with a childish flavor he tells us a lot about himself and, probably, about us too”.
