Agata on the road 2025

Interpreting the signs of the figure of the Patron Saint of the Sicilian city through the language of contemporary art, the project takes shape this year in an exhibition, created with the support of curators Gianluca Collica and Patrizia Monterosso, which for the first time will involve several artists from all over Europe and will develop on all five floors of the fON Art Gallery in Aci Castello (CT). The exhibition, divided into four sections, The Contest - Passages of State, A Year with Agatha, The Archive and Unplugged, presents a series of works that start from an original reinterpretation of the idea of ​​the cult and the tradition of Saint Agatha, but at the same time enrich it with new stimuli.

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There are twenty artists in the Il Contest section. The theme Passaggi di stato, conceived by curator Mario Bronzino, allowed participants to create a series of works inspired by moments of transformation, those subtle but decisive moments that influence the course of things, from physics to human experience, from society to art.

A year with Agata instead focuses on the works of two artists, Gaetano Gambino (photography) and Luisa Gentile (string art), winners of last year's contest. Their works, the result of a creative dialogue with Sant'Agata and the OELLE Foundation, represent an intense twelve-month journey of research and production.

The archive consists of a collection of works from the Agata on the road Archive of the Oelle Foundation, a heritage built through acquisitions, donations and loans from previous editions of the project.

 

Unplugged, an absolute novelty of the 2025 edition, which brings together the heterogeneous experiments of a group of artists who were asked to propose their own personal poetics, not necessarily linked to the Agatha theme, but with the aim of dialoguing with the territory and visitors in a direct, authentic and immediate way.

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