Croce Taravella was born in 1964 in Polizzi Generosa (Palermo). He studied at the Fine Art’s Academy of Palermo. He lives at the moment between Castellana Sicula (Pa), where his studio is, and Rome.
His artworks are in public(Fondazione Orestiadi, Ghibellina; Museum, Bagheria) as well private collections worldwide.
He also realized enviromental interventions and permant installations in Malta ( Villa Azzaro, 1992), Palermo (Crollori Vucciria, 2000), Berlin (beton, Kunsthaus Tacheles, (2001), China (Guilin, Yuzi Paradise, 2006) and in the hinterland of Sicily: Mazzarino (Caltanissetta ,Lago di Pietra, Azienda Agricola Floresta, 2000), Nicosia (Enna, Furia Nebrodensis, Casa Mancuso, 2001) and Bagheria (Palermo, Il Grande Guerriero, Museum of Villa Cattolica “Renato Guttuso”).
As scenographer he worked in many circumstances with the RAI (Public Tv Italy)
In Croce Taravella city landscapes and architectures materialize now in ignited the form and then in veiled and dark colors , through a technical procedure acquired by experience, or than features of the great metropols of the historical cities of ancient Europe or its nativ Sicily. Perhaps it seems that he has known and crossed those sites or wants to travel over again, instinctively, the lines of a debate that has invested the contemporary city in the early 1900s engaging sociologists and critics around the problem of the passage city-metropol to us. It seems to us to see again a city idea which he describes similar by concept with the idea of August Endell, Berlin architect protagonist with other young artists, of the Jugendstil, animated from desire to break off with the storicism, with the mimetic representation and with the manic luxury that was reign in the German culture, thus to promote a new cultural beginning for the new century. The limbs came from like they conceived like a homogenous universe; the art work total had to embrace all the within and being in a position to being involved ev
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