Cesare Siviglia (Sevilla, 1918 – Rome, 2003) deeply impressed Giulio Bargellini for the intercultural background of his research, suggested by the integration between Latin-American culture of his origins and the western avant-garde, studied in particular after his permanent move to Italy. From this fascination is born a monographic collection, that allows to understand its main features through a selection of paintings, sculptures and ceramics.
Siviglia’s personality express itself in the encounter- clash between civilizations, looking for a solid balance between the magical and symbolic imagination of the pre-Columbian art and the path of “primitive” synthesis, already undertaken in Europe by the great Masters of historic avant-garde as Picasso, Matisse and Brancusi. The result is a highly personal and fervently inventive art, ancestral and dreamy, but charged with a communicative expressionist power from which emerge the civil commitment and the desire of a democratic redemption of people, of which the author has always been a sensible witness.
Catching the echoes of popular muralism, in his painting the pronounced outline sign and the flat large areas of color determine figures with vivid and visionary chromatic, the same that we find also in the large ceramic production, where the shapes want the abstract synthesis and the narration to communicate.
