Self-taught painter but trained in the studios of well-known Catanese masters, Connie Sciacca entrusts to her pictorial skill and sensitivity of mind an arduous but successful task: what we could define as "making visible the invisible". In all her pictorial production, constantly based on stylistic and technical evolution, the common denominator is, in fact, the ability to visually represent what is normally hidden from view, but which moves and invisibly drags our lives: emotions, energies, inner paths, physiological and psychological mechanisms that we do not perceive, but that regulate the processes of our entire existence, and that the pictorial ability of Connie Sciacca reveals us, chromatically and figuratively, in an exciting journey guided by her strong introspective capacity As Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote: "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye".

 

 

In the first pictorial productions of Connie Sciacca, the subjects are only apparently abstract: a mosaic of swirling and enveloping colors, which depict the invisible forces that move the creation and the soul, the infinitely small, imperceptible to the human eye but essential to the life itself. Thus in "Human Genome", "Drop of Ice in Polarized Light", "Emotional Intelligence", "Energy Wave".

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From this experience, thanks to the marked inventiveness and constant desire to experiment and learn, Connie Sciacca easily moves on to hyper-realistic figurative depictions, characterized not only by the technical ability to reproduce the detail, but above all by the ability to use "new", more vivid and inner colors, where the canvas becomes a filter that emphasizes lights and reflections, amplifying emotions. The themes are those of nature, of its magical and incorrupt atmospheres, in which the spectator, traveling in the infinite spectrum of light and colors, drawn by the pawing of colors, finds himself and the path to inner peace.

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But still Connie Sciacca surprises us, transmuting the technical expertise of hyperrealism in surrealist painting that relies on a floating symbolism between dream and reality to depict - once again - what is hidden: interiority, what we do not show to others and sometimes not even ourselves. We find, for example, the theme of the mirror, which no longer reflects the external reality and stops being a narcissistic tool, to become a symbol of introspection, the "looking inside" that brings out the hidden and denied aspects of our identity, inevitably passing for the mask of Pirandellian memory, which hides them from the view of society, spectator of the theater of life in which the individual seems to aspire only to self-satisfaction, remaining chained to the materiality of the world and to the fiction of the game of the parts.

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Finally, in the constant search for full expressive awareness, Connie Sciacca arrives at metaphysical painting, in which the objects portrayed, arranged without an apparent logical connection, in geometrically unusual shapes and within magical and enigmatic atmospheres, lead the observer to wonder and new sensations and unknown, who break the common the logical thread of things to lead to doubt and reflection, in a new and unprecedented dimension of reality. It is in fact going beyond the limits of reality as we know it that we come to its "metaphysical" meaning, that which, as Giorgio De Chirico maintained, "cannot be seen but by rare individuals in moments of clairvoyance, as well as certain concealed bodies from impenetrable matter to the solar rays they cannot appear that under the power of artificial lights which would be X-rays ".

In this representative form, great importance is given to the archetypes that refer to classical art, to the history and myth of our land of Sicily, as ancient symbols but at the same time still very modern and current. The atmosphere is that of the dream, populated by silhouettes of pensive and melancholy figures, ready to soar into the incorrupt and magical landscape, where the logical relations of space and time are now broken.

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And it is thanks to the overcoming of these limits, and to the knowledge of our past and our history, that we arrive at the true meaning of things, whose ultimate goal is the attainment of the freedom of the body, soul and thought, overcoming the yoke of instincts, abuses, meanness and violence inherent in human nature itself, to reach that difficult, perhaps almost impossible balance between reason and heart.

Then, perhaps only art can restore this conflict, in a process in which aesthetics is reflected in ethics, and in the kaleidoscope of the canvas, which filters and decomposes colors and subjects, the duplicity of aspects and opposites is transformed and it vanishes in beauty, 

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Since 2012, Connie Sciacca has set up numerous personal exhibitions in Sicily and abroad: at galleries in Paris and Brussels, in Catania at "Le Ciminiere", at the "Arte Civita 28" Gallery and at Palazzo della Cultura, at the Municipality of S Giovanni La Punta, Parco Aniante in Viagrande, Palazzo Santonoceto of Acireale, Cellar of the Municipality of Aci Bonaccorsi. There are also numerous group exhibitions: the annual exhibition of modern art "Arte Padova", Municipality of Aci Castello, Gravina, Catania, Belpasso, Ragalna, S. Tecla, Viagrande at the Palazzo Partanna, the bipersonal one at the civic gallery "Pippo Giuffrida" by Misterbianco, organized by the "Etrusca" art academy, the exhibition at the Iazzo Art Gallery in Rome during which she was awarded a special mention of the jury, the collective and "Vernissage" competition at the Emilio Greco Museum in Catania who saw her as winner of the First Prize, and numerous other exhibitions.