Giuseppe Modica

Giuseppe Modica is an Italian painter born in Mazara del Vallo, Trapani, in 1953. He showed an early interest in painting, starting to create still lifes at the age of fourteen, marked by a metaphysical tension towards everyday objects. In 1972, he enrolled in the Architecture faculty in Palermo and then moved to Florence, where he attended the Academy of Fine Arts, completing his studies in 1978. In Florence, he began his artistic career with solo exhibitions and developed a pictorial language focused on light, geometry, and perspective, which are fundamental elements of his work. In 1986, he moved to Rome, where he has lived and worked for over thirty years, establishing himself as a leading figure in Italian metaphysical painting of the late twentieth century. His works often explore themes of Mediterranean routes and migration, inspired by his family home overlooking the Mare Nostrum in Mazara del Vallo. Critics such as Vittorio Sgarbi and Leonardo Sciascia have praised the conceptual quality and luminous sensitivity of his art, which combines geometric rigor with a dreamlike and metaphysical vision. Among his recent exhibitions is "Mediterranean Routes and Circular Vision" held at the Hendrik Andersen House Museum in Rome, which led to the museum acquiring some of his paintings. Modica is also a painting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.