Artist Alessandro joins Art Destinations Sicily to reflect on his childhood in a remote fishing village on the south-west coast of Sicily. He decribes Torretta Granitola as an “island within an island” marked by fragments of migrant boats, and the unspoken presence of the Mafia. He discusses how these formative experiences shaped his shift from architecture to art, and how drawing became both a meditative practice and a democratic tool.

Today, Alessandro’s work flows across mediums—murals, stop-motion, and fluid drawings. His artworks resist borders, tracing connections between figures from his childhoood memories while also drawing on Sicily’s Baroque architectural history.

We travel to Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean, rich with layers of history, myth, and volcanic soil. We'll be exploring how artists live, work, and create here — interviewing some of the most compelling voices in contemporary art working through residencies and site-specific projects.