Location: Basilica San Giovanni Evangelista
Curator: niArt Gallery Association
Dates: 5th October - 30th November 2015
Opening hours: every day 10am - 7pm

Mosaic installation by Felice Nittolo 
Saint Francis, Cimabue, Giotto, Dante. Their artistic and literal production contributed to keep the cultural interest alive in Ravenna, a city of deep silences, illuminated by the precious luminescence of a refined art, such as mosaic. Felice Nittolo enhances this luminescence with his extraordinary installation inside the Church of San Giovanni Evangelista, the oldest basilica in Ravenna.

The mosaic work la Porziuncola is located in the gothic chapel of the basilica and retraces in detail the features of the little church, which in 1500 was added to the huge building of Santa Maria degli Angeli di Assisi: a Church inside the Church. The sculpture features a rough surface, like in the original Franciscan building, and a syncopated, irregular, oblique texture. Two wooden beams pierce Nittolo's work in its upper part as a symbol for the scourges that afflicted the Church in recent years: two monoliths, essential but visually powerful, carrying out a topical message. Three pure spheres, placed in the presbytery by the artist, align with the sense of absolute and the solemnity of the Basilica.