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In the 70's, he moves to Palermo where he attends the Artistic High School and the
Academy of Fine Arts. He recalls.

"The school did the rest, first the Art School, then the Academy of Fine Arts. The big city,
Palermo, with its museums and galleries, Arab churches and Art Nouveau villas, but also,
with its palaces, its ghettos and dormitories,its streets paved with blood and its long
processions, has broadened my horizons, has consolidated this relationship with art."
In the '80s he founded, together with other Sicilian artists, the Cultural Center Arts Visual
of Marsala and, together with the Poet Antonino Contiliano, in the context of the cultural
promotion of the City of Petrosino, gives life to an Art Exhibition Contemporary and to a
Poetry Prize.He remembers:
"Timidly the first exhibitions began: implacable, necessary, decisive verifications. Then
the friendship with the poet Antonino Contiliano makes my painting approach poetry,
become a lyrical moment."
In 1984, while continuing to maintain
contacts with the artistic reality Trapani, he
moves to the province of Brescia to
undertake the activity of teacher of Art and
Image in secondary schools.
"The veils of fog and the chromatic snow of
the north, Brescia in particular with its

valleys and calm lakes, further enrich my
palette of new colors; new symbols and
experiences that materialize in a rich
production and some exhibitions: Brescia,
Novi Ligure, Florence and down to
Salerno.Finally, again, the school with its
kids. Yes, the boys, who day after day, with
their spontaneous naivety, charge me and
renew my desire to "do", to continue to "do"
In Rome in 2012 with the poet Antonino painting with maximum freedom of
Contiliano and the poet-publisher expression, oscillating between concept and
Gianmario Lucini emotion."

In 1989, returns to Sicily.
From 1987 he begins to publish articles of political satire, of politics, of historical-artistic-
literary interest and art criticism on several newspapers provincial newspapers and online
newspapers.
In 1992 he married Vincenza Burzotta (from whom he has two daughters, Sofia and Marta)
and moved to Mazara del Vallo.
From 2001 to 2005 he was a member of the C. d. A. of the Ente Mostra di Pittura of the
Municipality of Petrosino.
He has illustrated several books of poetry and literary magazines and is co-author of some
collective poetry texts with intersemiotic editing.