Enzo Cucchi e Ettore Sottsass

Enzo Cucchi (b. Morro d'Alba, 1949) and Ettore Sottsass (b. Innsbruck, 1917), two subversives, two natural-born rebels, propose to us a dialogue inspired by a land they both love: Sicily. If Cucchi's imagination is close to the mythological feeling and the ritual sacrality in which Sicilian culture has been traditionally rich, Sottsass has always derived vital inspiration for his works from Mediterranean colours, landscape and architecture. They met for the first time in 1999 on a common ground of reflection and vision. But in the dialogue they have since undertaken, each has always preserved his own clearly distinct character. This book documents the works they have realized together in two years of partnership: the drawings, the projects, the sketches until the mounting of the present exhibition in the
Galleria Civica d'Arte Contemporanea Montevergini in Syracuse, where Sottsass has designed and built a structure to house two Greek sculptures of the 5th century BC and Cucchi has painted two large reed mats that hang gracefully from the ceiling.