Sergio Fiorentino’s Sicilian Studio
A restored refectory within a former Cistercian monastery designed by Gagliardi in 1713.
“This is what I try to transfer onto my canvases,” he says of a “magic realism” felt pulsing through its streets and people. “I speak of men; faces and bodies placed in a non-place, far from reality. I try to paint a model of classical beauty but [in] revealing it, I try to protect it.”
Source: House tour: an artist’s Sicilian studio and home that was once a former monastery