Gaetano Tranchino
He was born in Syracuse in 1938 and lives in Syracuse peacefully and contentedly, always seeking to deepen and perfect his art.
Leonardo Sciascia, his friend, would say of him: “Tranchino doesn’t work, he delights: that is, he paints with delight, with pleasure, as if on a prolonged vacation—so prolonged—continuous and intense that it absorbs his entire life.”
Giving in to emotion before a painting by Gaetano Tranchino means visiting "the island never left" (Claude Ambroise – 2004) and listening to the "chronicle of a fairy tale" (Lucio Barbera – 1999), that tale of a Sicily that we want to tell the world also through the work of a great artist, who captures its mystery, fear, and wonder.
It's the 1980s, Antonio is cultivating his olive trees while Gaetano is in the midst of his artistic production. However, the two first meet in other capacities: one as a doctor, the other as a patient, and since then they have been bound by a deep and sincere friendship.
In his works, Gaetano keeps the myth alive and imagines the world as it should be. His paintings are made of memory and fable, and we Cavasecca have always imagined it a little like this: with its deep roots in the past and its long-term vision of the future.
Like a dream made in the countryside, halfway between the mountains and the sea.
