Source: Milano Today

excerpt from the official article:

Cesare Catania continues to amaze: the painter, sculptor and digital artist who is filling the national and international art scene

Absolutely effervescent period for Cesare Catania, the Italian artist who after having consolidated his artistic career for years in Italy and abroad, after having recently exhibited some of his digital and non-digital works during the period of the Venice Biennale at the Art Terminal and after having inaugurated his own personal gallery in the Spatial metaverse, he has continued his multifaceted and chameleon-like artistic journey in recent months. On display these days at the San Babila Art Gallery (via Visconti di Modrone 6, Milan) which, among other works by Catania, also offers its new collection “Feelings and Emotions”, Cesare Catania explains through 14 masterpieces including 3D paintings and sculptures like feelings and emotions accompany his artistic production from the moment of the conception of a work to its execution and its finalization, passing through themes such as happiness, passion, shyness, the presence of one’s own ego and the absence of the same. The same Galleria San Babila (directed by the manager Francesco Colucci) which is exhibiting Cesare Catania until the end of June, will host in collaboration with the art fund Art & Luxury Investment Fund during the days of the Salone del Mobile in the same space a series of events related to the art of Catania and the fund itself. In particular, in addition to the 30 traditional works and 6 NFTs by Cesare Catania already presented to the public on 18 June, the originals of three sacred monsters in the history of art will also be exhibited. The first is a 1970s print by Andy Warhol depicting Marilyn Monroe, one of the most iconic works of pop art, from a prestigious Dutch gallery (a twin copy was recently auctioned for $195 million). The second original is an unpublished canvas by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, a seascape with female nudes datable to around 1885 and which belonged to an Andalusian poet. The third is one of the famous Russian jeweler Faberge’s eggs, some of which have reached valuations in the millions. Alongside these three treasures, which will be exhibited together with other works by Cesare Catania in a special “black room”, their digital elaborations will be exhibited, in the form of holograms and digital art. The latter created by the newly formed MetaWord, the first social platform/App where users can share, sell or promote their NFT, and of which Cesare Catania has recently been officially appointed Artistic Director. In this case, the Fuorisalone calendar includes 3 days dedicated to art and NFTs, in particular open to the public on 9, 10 and 11 June from 6 pm to 10 pm. The appointment with the press is fixed for Thursday 9 June at 12:00. During these 3 days of events, Cesare Catania will receive the “From Material Art to Digital Art” award, being among the few traditional artists who have distinguished themselves in the field of technology and digitization and having managed to express their emotions in a complete and effective way and sensations in both the traditional and digital fields. “I am happy to receive this award – he confides -. With the entry into the Metaverse, art no longer has borders: tradition and digitization increasingly merge to give life to works of art that literally enter people’s hearts”. As if the moment weren’t hot enough and full of appointments, in conjunction with the Milan furniture fair, Cesare Catania will exhibit on June 13 at the LAC Museum in Lugano during a day dedicated to the Metaverse. In fact, on that date we will see a series of events and conferences at the Swiss Museum whose main theme will be art and NFTs. In this context, around twenty artists have been carefully selected, including Cesare Catania himself, as “the greatest artists in the digital sector” (Forbes 05/30/22). In this Cesare Catania is absolutely an innovator, ranging 360 degrees and transversally from traditional to digital art. “Digital art becomes an amplifier of emotions and sensations both for those who produce it and for those who observe it. Entering the Metaverse today means approaching a future reality with all the cultural baggage of the past.” This is how Cesare Catania explains during a recent video interview with Libero.tv. “In the coming years we will see a convergence of the real world and the different Metaverses. Paintings, sculptures and NFTs will all converge together in the same object to generate works of art that will literally come to life, without forgetting or moving away from traditional art.” The Metaforum in Lugano, which will be held on 13 June 2022, is promoted by one of the most important players in the crypto world, by the digital magazine Cryptonomist.ch and will see Italian and international speakers alternating, personalities difficult to meet in European events, such as John Crain, the CEO and co-founder of SuperRare, Pavel Matveev (Co-Founder of Wirex), Massimo Morini (Chief Economist Officer Algorand Foundation), Marc Seal (Sortium), Alberto Maiorana (Head of Licensing of Sorare), David Princay ( Head of France of Binance), Marco Ruffa (Pinkoù), Thomas Bertani (CEO of Eidoo), Alessandro de Grandi (The Nemesis), Amer Nour (Meteora), Andrea Concas (ArtRights), the influencer Marco Montemagno.