Domenico Pellegrino draws the legend of the "Moor's heads" with light.

The heads tell of a forbidden love between a Moor and a Sicilian girl, evoke the meeting and clash of two cultures, and recall the bitter punishment of beheading (also sadly current) dictated by amorous passion in the version of the legend that sees the woman killing the man to prevent him from returning to her country and family - or dictated by an assumed wounded honor, in a second version of the legend that sees the family of the woman who, once they discover the relationship with the foreigner, kills both lovers.

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€750.00

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The work is made of wood with the typical Led lights of southern Italy, the “luminaria” open edition, numbered and signed in original by the artist, delivered with certificate of authentication. It works with electric current.
Dimensions
subject Man 53x60 cm
Woman subject 41x60 cm
Sicily, a land of legends, where life, pride, love, and death all come together. Where different populations meet, where distant traditions intertwine to form new narratives. Sicily, a land of oddities, between the magical and the macabre, the religious and the profane. Domenico Pellegrino exalts the island with its ancient and incredibly contemporary imagery.
Greek myths and legends, contemporary superheroes dressed in traditional Sicilian decorations, the lights of the patron saint festivals are the identifying features of the works of the artist, who lives and works in Sicily where the continuous inspiration he draws from that land gives his art greater energy.
Domenico Pellegrino, an internationally recognized artist and present in 2019 at the 58th Venice Biennale, believes in the synthesis between heritage and future.
His works transform the ancient into something that quickly communicates to the here and now. Through the aesthetics of his work he tries to transfer the strength of the Sicilian people, their history and even their legends. The sculptures are born using the classic artisanal methods, are hand painted with oil colors taking up the gestures with which Sicilian carts were decorated, and represent contemporary references, linked to the world of comics and superheroes.
The lights contain innovative and traditional elements, from drawing by hand to the computer and then back to the laboratory. Here the artist is dedicated to painting, drawing with lines, dots, domes, baroque decorations, tying everything with shellac, typical of the ancient decorations on Sicilian carts.

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