Your Mark in Time
Group Exhibition
within the framework of the project Together for the Art Village in Sicily
Fondazione Effetto Arte, Palermo
April 18–24, 2026
Second exhibition featuring a new group of artists
Opening: Saturday, April 18, from 6:00 pm
From April 18 to 24, 2026, Effetto Arte Gallery in Palermo hosts the second phase of the Your Mark in Time – Art, Memory and Cultural and Civic Responsibility Prize, following a first group exhibition held in March.
Promoted by Fondazione Effetto Arte, the project is part of Together for the Art Village in Sicily, an initiative dedicated to the revitalization of the Danilo Dolci Village in Trappeto — a place emblematic of culture, civic engagement, and nonviolent thought. Here, the artistic gesture takes on a concrete dimension: artists are invited to leave a permanent mark — their signature — destined to become part of the physical memory of the site.
The “mark in time” thus assumes a dual nature: an individual expression and a shared responsibility, a trace that inscribes itself into space while contributing to a collective construction of memory.
Exhibiting artists
Piera Bachiocco, Anna Maria Bastia, Catia Bellati, Gianni Bini, Francesco Biondo, Gianni Boattini, Maria Rita Bordonaro, Donatella Bucchieri, Michele Gaetano Calamita, Adriano Cassè, Lia Chia, Anna Colaiacovo, Vermiglia Concetti, Antonietta Contini, Serena Contino, Eleonora Dell’Acqua, Alessandra Dell’Atti, Oriana Di Luciano, Susanna Dore, Barbara Droghini, Tania Frisani, Angelica Ausilia Giadone, William Giacomini, Constantin Hangu, Gaia IMI^ Vicenti, Marina Lebro, Egidia Lentini, Uber Leoni, Laura Lotti Castiglioni, Antonio Costas Lucia, Annibale Mancinelli, Rodolfo Maretti, Antonietta Marroccoli, Mirko Monti (MaunZ), Rosa Raffaella Montuori, Carlotta Musacchia, Antonietta Natalizio, Vania Nicolasi, Rosario Oliva, Cristina Passarella (Cris), Alessandro Pellegrini, Claudia Pietralunga, Lucia Ronchieri, Vittoria Rubin, Serena Sabbatino, Ivan Sangiorgi, Elisabetta Saraga, Adriana Stella, Nicola Sutti, Danilo Teagano, Elio Terreni, Claudio Tonelli, Gabriela Trimoska, Iva Tufo (Kamala), Micol Turco, Maria Felice Vadalà, Arianna Vetrugno, Alessandro Villanucci, Bernarda Visentini, Ruudt Wackers.
Among the participating artists, Francesco Biondo presents Words Burn, Words Burn – May 10, 1933, Opernplatz Berlin (Homage to Bertolt Brecht), a work that engages deeply with memory as an active and ethical act.
The pictorial surface is dense and stratified, marked by tension and incision. Writing — a central element — appears as a fragile yet resistant trace, suspended between survival and erasure. A face emerges and withdraws, barely held within the matter of paint.
The reference to the book burnings of May 10, 1933, in Berlin extends beyond its historical dimension, opening onto a reflection on the present: the vulnerability of language and its necessity. The painting does not represent the event — it preserves its wound.
Within this liminal space between image and document, painting takes on a further role: beyond representation, it becomes preservation; beyond description, resistance.
In this sense, Biondo’s work resonates directly with the vision of the Danilo Dolci Village. If the Village stands as a place of renewal and shared cultural construction, the artwork recalls what must be preserved in order for such renewal to be possible: the memory of what has been destroyed, silenced, or erased.
The mark requested of the artists — engraved, lasting — thus moves beyond symbolism and asserts itself as an ethical gesture. Not a signature, but a stance. Not a decorative trace, but a declaration of presence.
Effetto Arte Gallery
Via Ludovico Ariosto 19 – 90144 Palermo
Opening event
April 18, 2026 – 6:00 pm
Speakers
Sandro Serradifalco, curator
Alberto Castiglione, Fondazione Danilo Dolci
Alberto Biondo, Centro Sviluppo Creativo Danilo Dolci
and members of the Scientific Committee of Fondazione Effetto Arte
Opening hours
Monday–Friday: 9:00 am – 1:00 pm / 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Saturday and Sunday: by appointment
Free admission
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