2003
FRANCO BATTIATO

Like Nicolas de Staël, you have an insatiable passion for colors and for certain Sicilian landscapes. 
Your aerial, essential, direct painting reveals ancient and sublime places. 
The splendid Ostia Antica, Marzameni, and the wonderful Sicilia. 
The support and technique are merely subordinated by your need to change and your expressive urge. 
In this way, your portraits slightly disregard physiognomy, favouring the manifestation of existence. 


in MIXtura, Charta, Milano 2003, catalogue of the exhibition