Ernesto Graditi | Palermo, Sicily ITALY

Ernesto Graditi was born in Sicily in 1972 and began his painting career in Palermo in 1990. As a scholar at the University of Palermo, Graditi earned three degrees including architecture and a Master of Set Design for cinema and television.                                                                                                                                                                                        

The artist has won a number of prizes in juried shows in Italy over the past seventeen years, and since 2006 the artist created many performances throughout Sicily which integrate design, fashion, dance and music.

His most important pictorial series “Normannesimo”, consisting of fifty oil canvases, is on permanent display at the Regional Museum in Terrasini, Sicily. His surrealistic and haunting “Death and Resurrection” collection embodies disturbing images of religious figures, and the flight and peril of human follies played out against the grip of spiritual forces. 

In 2009, he had his first exhibition of paintings and drawings in New York City at Galerie St. George, and has more recently begun development of an Italian fashion accessories company, g-artwear, which will embody his iconic designs taken from ancient Sicilian architecture and monuments.

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