Cettina Callari is a painter of great talent and sensitivity, whose work has won the attention of critics and art enthusiasts.

The personality of this painter is evident in her singular way of painting reality, in particular landscapes, people or objects from the enchanting Peru.
This characteristic of hers is further customised by a solid structure of the compositions and a careful chromatic knowledge, marked by the strong warm colours of the South American continent.
The paintings are the result of feelings and recalls of atmospheres full of sunsets and blue oceans, interwoven with exotic figures, vibrant with light, as if illuminated by an intimate and gestural pathos.
A leavening, lyrical reading, therefore, that of Cettina Callari, with a few marking lines, but sinuous in enveloping the yellows, reds and blues.
Each work is full of emotional references, of primordial places and characters that in the spectator are transformed into dreams.

edited by Giuseppe Possa art critic Mondadori

Cettina Callari’s creations are traces of the artist’s total identification with a humanity devoid of frills and superfetations and with a circuit of ecstasy and contemplation that is measured on a multiplied and unexpected narrative tuning fork.

curated by art critic Andrea Diprè

In her works, Cettina Callari has the ability to go beyond the appearance of things.
The compositional approach is internalised according to the concepts of a neo-overism that characterises nature, the real and the human figure, with a predilection for humble subjects, also to delve into their social condition, culture, customs and psychology.
He creates a perfect balance, recovering geometric-proportional criteria.
He concentrates on the rendering of colours, the condition of light and luminous tones, to express contents of a symbolist, social, ideal nature.
He does not neglect details and transposes onto canvas the full range of feelings that hover in the viewer’s emotional dimension.
With an eye to the social and human redemption of the humble.

by Art expert Captain Michele Miulli

Critical remarks (by art critic Gabriele Romeo) Yellow strokes of light illuminate the huts. A very imaginative landscape painting is proposed by the Sicilian artist Cettina Callari, who sets out to show a sunny landscape, going beyond the impressionistic limits at first glance. In Lago Titicaca, the artist identifies herself with a strongly figurative painting: the sea, huts, mountains and vegetation in the foreground. What happens when reading the work? The sky is uniform, light, flat and immersed in the immense. The ‘punched’ brushstrokes,which determine the spatial distribution of the landscape in the foreground,seem to be taken from the marine studies of a Felice Castegnaro. The pointillism proposed by Cettina Callari seems to have its origins in the works produced in 19th century Sicily by artists such as Lojacono and Michele Catti. The artist’s pictorial technique is conceptually complicated in relation to the deliberate dichotomy between ‘macchia’ and ‘pointillisme’.

curated by art critic Gabriele Romeo

Cenni critici (a cura del cav. Casimiro dell’Arco Talarico Giornalista, cultore d’arte antica e contemporanea. Accademico corrispondente Accademia Archeologica Italiana). Ogni opera di Cettina Callari, porta incancellabile il sigillo di una vigoria creativa che ha basamento nella capacità dell’artista di rapportarsi con sensibilità alle argomentazioni e ai soggetti che stimolano il suo estro artistico. Un limpido messaggio d’arte, quello di Cettina Callari che, con le sue opere ci coinvolge a tal punto fino a farci divenire tutt’uno con le sue creazioni artistiche.

a cura del cav. Casimiro dell’Arco Talarico

Critical notes (by Cav. Casimiro dell’Arco Talarico Journalist, scholar of ancient and contemporary art. Corresponding Academician Accademia Archeologica Italiana). Every work by Cettina Callari bears the indelible seal of a creative vigour that is based on the artist’s ability to relate with sensitivity to the arguments and subjects that stimulate her artistic inspiration. A limpid message of art, that of Cettina Callari, whose works involve us to such an extent that we become one with her artistic creations.

Curated by Cav. Casimiro dell’Arco Talarico

Essential lines, yet gentle in their curves, uncover primordial shapes and figures in the intricate succession of warm, enveloping colours.
The result of the continuous succession of yellows and reds, the resulting sense of envelopment, projects the unsuspecting spectator into exotic atmospheres. Where crimson sunsets and azure oceans merge there passions arise and memories become dreams. But beyond the passion that arises from the encounter with those atmospheres, well created there are mothers and daughters, women above all, who in whirlwind or in stasis, are immersed in a light revealing an intimate pathòs. The new path her inspiration has taken, as well as pleasing us, convinces us.

Edited by Dr M.G Spinello

A direct relationship between the mind and the object that symbolises man in his social life and relationship with the environment.
A realisation that structures and paints the work on the psychic thread of landscape and figural poetics with a contemporary touch.
The painting as a whole is realised in the orderly composition in which the careful psychological intervention also interacts, vitalising the messaging purpose of the artistic-figurative realisation.

Edited by Giuseppe Martucci (Art Critic – Dir. Resp. Artecultura)

The introspective analysis of his work results in a valid expressive commitment from which emerges the continuous search for technique filtered by his feelings through an art of great fruitive impact.

Edited by Prof. Anna Francesca Biondolillo (International Biennial Art Critic City of Lecce)

His figures reveal his compositional harmony, rich in emotional references. Each of her works vibrates with personal intuition, capable of involving nature and characters, with a rich palette that enhances her gestures.

curated by writer and critic Mariarosaria Belgioivine

writes of her: Cettina Callari tackles various themes in her painting: the landscape, the figurative, even venturing into the nude. This evening in particular, she offers us a series of canvases that represent the result of her ‘ideal’ trip to Peru! In reality, the artist shows us glimpses of this civilisation: moments of everyday life captured and immortalised by the lens; photography is a medium through which Cettina is moved and what strikes her most she conveys in her paintings.
Her artistic work reveals her love for these people and their culture, which is very different from ours.
Women and men, perhaps less wealthy than us, but certainly more fortunate because they live in a pure society of feelings not contaminated by consumerism, by arrivism as ours is.
Cettina Callari uses essential lines, gentle in their curves, which uncover primordial shapes and figures in the intricate succession of warm and enveloping colours; and the Peruvian civilisation lends itself very much to this. In the paintings, yellows and reds chase each other, giving a sense of envelopment, projecting the unsuspecting viewer into exotic atmospheres where crimson sunsets and azure oceans merge and there passions arise and memories become dreams. Originally the artist used the technique of oil on canvas, over the years he began to use acrylic colours and then to use the spatula alongside the paintbrush; means that allow him to better express his suggestions.
Cettina Callari, with her painting, gives refreshment to our souls, suffocated by the greyness of our cities and our materialistic society always in a hurry; she allows us to escape from our world, to rediscover a way of life that we have forgotten.

by Lorenzo Fattori (expert and art critic)

Observing the two figures in the work Wandering Glances, one perceives a surprising realism and communicability that has as its focal point the expressiveness of faces and eyes that take the place of words.
This result makes use of a careful and meticulous research of the expressive language, which more than the verbal one manifests the motions of the human soul.
In the pictorial work, the concept of communication becomes an essential element, as there is naturalness in the two figures, emphasised by the dark background and the colours of the clothing, but above all by the headgear that reinforces the somatic features of a distant world.
SGUARDI VAGANTI certainly stems from the expert hand of an artist who strives for perfection and beauty.

edited by Giuseppe Manitta art critic

In his painting, the rhythm of the colours modulates between the folds of memory to rediscover new suggestions that find a mental space in the logical structuring of the images that rest, with precise expressive references to contingent reality, on luminous interiorised compositions.

curated by Dr. Teresa Rizzo