Arturo CASANOVA was born in 1966 in Caserta, Italy. He is a painter, sculptor, photographer, video artist and designer. Casanova belongs to the generation of artists who broke the rules between different disciplines up to that time in the visual arts. His focus as a creative artist is on the sacred dimension of art as opposed to any superficial decorative appeal.

He is a participant in many exhibitions such as: the Venice Art Biennale (2011); XIV Quadriennale d'Arte of Rome; Royal Palace; Naples; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia; Madrid Collection Roberto Polo; Centro de Arte Moderno y Contemporaneo de Castilla-La Mancha; Toledo; Reggia di Caserta, Caserta (IT) - Palazzo delle Esposizione; Rome; Museo Victoria Memorial; Mumbai; Masedu Centro Arte Contemporanea, Sassari; Museo di Capodimonte, Naples; Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Madrid; Stadt Museum, Weimar, Museo della Permanente, Milan; Galleria Allegretti Arte Contemporanea, Turin; and Fondazione Scanderbeg, Gott Leiden, Tirana.

The mystical tower
Oil on canvas and ink on paper (polyptych), 230 x 210 cm, 2021

The mystical tower
Oil on canvas and ink on paper (polyptych), 221 x 202 cm, 2022

The conceptual approach:

The mystical tower is a truncated pyramid-shaped structural arrangement of works on canvas made with different techniques and sizes using only one color and its variants. Large, square or rectangular installation, deliberately interrupted/formed in the center to allow possible positioning in an imaginary/virtual gateway, which tapers upwards to emerge as an altar or retablo (from the Spanish) of 14th century. His iconographic program is absolutely free of images marked only by a particular texture and dynamic, concentric, cross lines, which try to evoke territories of transcendent visions of mystical synthesis. A call to never lose sight of. With its mechanism of undulating movements and energy flows, abstract expressions of inner landscapes, the mystical tower aims to be a meditation tool for the contemporary man of the 3rd millennium, ever more enamored with the process of being eternally, thus defying the boundary that separates him from his consciousness. The peculiarity of the work is the composition, which provokes two sounds and a double choreography, giving a real sense of displacement. It is the application of the dual principle, perhaps where Everything resides.