Trapani's San Rocco Museum Inaugurates Two Exhibitions: "Gouache" by Al Peters and "Overflow of Light" by Luca Crapanzano
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- Sep 15
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On July 31, 2025, at 9:30 PM, two solo exhibitions will be inaugurated at the San Rocco Museum in Trapani, with the artists present. Both exhibitions will be held on the first floor of the Museum. The first exhibition, entitled Sovraeccedenza di luce (Overflow of Light), held in the Giovanni XXIII Hall, presents a selection of watercolors by Luca Crapanzano, a priest of the diocese of Piazza Armerina. For over ten years, he has been rector of the Seminary and professor of Theological Anthropology and Eschatology at the Pontifical Theological Faculty of Sicily in Palermo. This exhibition is an anthropological journey, the pictorial tale of a humanity on the move, fragile and in balance, immersed in a life and a nature that surpass it, yet which, precisely in this disproportion, chooses to allow itself to be reached by the light. A light that always remains before us, discernible in its shadows, as a promise and an invitation. The journey depicted here, inspired by Nicola Magrin, begins and ends in solitude, because the question that sets man in motion is alone, unique, and irreducible: the question of life, in its naked truth. A life simply lived, which becomes a secular mystical experience, capable of speaking to everyone.
The second exhibition, held in the Sala Plotti of Casa Rocco Gallery, an exhibition project born in 2021, is dedicated to the American artist Al Peters, with the title Gouache. Originally from Michigan, trained at the Art Institute of Chicago, and active in New York since the 1980s, Peters presents a selection of his most recent gouache works, previously exhibited in 2024 at the Montague Gallery in Chelsea, NY, curated by Carla Ricevuto.
Al Peters's artistic research focuses on the evolution of formalistic and coloristic compositions, developed with a highly personal methodological rigor. The Trapani exhibition highlights the many facets of his work, which feature repetitions, mutations, assemblages, separations, fractures, and undulations, all shaped by vibrant, luminous colors.
The artist's investigation extends to the role of form and our perception of it. Indeed, curator Carla Ricevuto says: "A form that doesn't reflect an easily recognizable image can be disorienting, but at the same time it leads us to attribute meaning to it, activating perceptual dynamics developed through our experience."
"These two exhibitions," says Don Liborio Palmeri, "express the San Rocco Museum's ability to bring together people and cultural worlds that are completely different. In this case, a New York artist, a protagonist of the Roaring Twenties of contemporary art in the New York of Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Jekk Koons, meets a Sicilian priest, a solitary protagonist of an artistic passion that leads him to dialogue, above all, with himself. What unites them? The transparency of their souls, the same transparency of water that is necessary for the techniques they love to express themselves with: watercolor and gouache."
July 28, 2025
Info: museosanrocco@gmail.com
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