Giovanni La Cognata

The paintings of La Cognata narrate the truest Sicily.

The energetic brush-stroke, the curious framing, the intense colour which ranges from yellow to burnt, distinguishes the style of an artist who has found freedom of expression in the furrows of tradition.

There is an almost total absence of the human figure and the landscape acts in its stead expressing the strength and the dynamism of the inner life of the individual, re-united with nature in a static, melancholy and languid atmosphere.