A sunset, a night, a sunrise in Capri, with artist Giovanni Ozzola

Three days of self-discovery in Capri: at the end of May, a select group of guests gathered at Jumeirah Capri Palace to explore the poetics of artist Giovanni Ozzola, who created site-specific works for the temporary exhibition “Colore Luce”, promoted in collaboration with Galleria Continua.

In a collective initiative, presentations, talks and landscape studies contributed to the assimilation of the artist's philosophical research behind his works. Giovanni Ozzola feeds on human immersion in the landscape, returning to the primordial traces of his soul to allow himself to flourish and develop an artistic practice dense with the “here and now”: by overcoming the friction between inside and outside, between body and landscape, he experiences his own essence at the point of conjunction. Through the investigation of light at key moments of the day, he attunes to the emotional tones of fleeting moments: Ozzola translates this inner journey into his photographs from the Bunkers. In these photographic works, contemporary ruins are in dialogue with the landscape, and the light that floods the dark environments is a living force that accompanies the gaze beyond the buildings, towards infinite nature, opening up passages of silence and meditation for the viewer, concretely suggesting an inner journey that reveals worlds hidden within and beyond us. In this process of studying opposites, art becomes a tool for approaching one's inner self through the perception of the world.

In support of this study, experts in the field took part in the initiative, guiding guests on a journey of discovery: Angela Tecce, president of the Madre museum in Naples, contributed with a lecture on the colour of sunset and sunrise in art. In particular, through the study of Diefenbach's paintings, it was understood how light can be a tool for self-discovery. Philosopher Aurelio Andrighetto discussed the perception of colour from a scientific point of view, investigating how the retina is able to absorb light and use it as a means of understanding reality.

At the end of the meeting, inspired by the words of the most beautiful poems in literature, the guests gathered at the Punta Carena lighthouse, a symbolic location on the island and a source of artificial light that nevertheless embellishes Capri's starry nights.