Daniele Franzella
Tre note sulla teoria dei discorsi

​The OELLE Foundation, in collaboration with Rizzuto Gallery of Palermo, presented, inside the Four Points by Sheraton Catania of Aci Castello, a solo exhibition of Daniele Franzella, an artist engaged in refined theoretical research, mainly expressed through the language of sculpture and installation. Three large works, coming from the production of recent years, were the protagonists of this exhibition, in an ideal dialogue with the core of unpublished shots on the Second World War, taken from the archive of the American photographer Phil Stern, currently exhibited by the Foundation at the Phil Stern Pavilion, along the route of the Historical Museum of the landing in Sicily 1943 of Catania. Franzella's works problematize literatures and mythologies connected to war, seduction and the traps of power, to the concepts of border, enemy, defense, propaganda. An enormous trench (“Austerlitz”, 2018), a stage machine for the sound diffusion of an anomalous score (“Agli eroi, ai folli, agli infami”, 2017), a disturbing image derived from the banality of other images recovered, estranged and recomposed (“Racchette”, 2017).

Franzella’s exhibition, in this powerful play of signs loaded with political-cultural values, has thus contributed to the construction of a diversified narrative through images, which passes, in general, from the role of sources, the power of photographic documentation, the strategies of the mass media, the pages of news, literature and philosophy, relating to war conflicts and the dominant power.