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Fires at the Fort is the artwork for the “Viva Sant'Agata – Catania in Pop Art” project, which best represents the brightest and most pyrotechnic aspects of the patronal festivities in honor of Sant'Agata in Catania.

Everything is festive, from the stalls selling nougat and caramelized apples to the candelore that meet to the sound of music in the streets of the city and the main protagonist of this artwork of mine is precisely the Fortino, the Porta Ferdinandea built in 1768 to commemorate the centenary of the historic eruption of 1669 that buried the western part of the city.

Among the historical bearers of the Candelore, I have depicted Sebastiano Romano, because although he was not an actor, he made a good impression when in 1969 he appeared with the Ortofrutticoli candle in the opening scene of the film “Un bellissimo Novembre” written by Ercole Patti, directed by Mauro Bolognini and starring Gina Lollobrigida.

From 2018 to today, Fires at the Fortino boasts numerous exhibitions, including Etnacomics, Palazzo della Cultura in Catania, the Sicily Fest in London, the Gallery of Modern Art in Catania

and the Rinascente store in Catania.

In 1954 in Piazza Palestro “Al Fortino” the film “The art of making do” written by

Vitaliano Brancati directed by Luigi Zampa with a tireless Alberto Sordi

(four films played in the same year).