Factory Melilli

Mellili, Italy

"Living the body and dressing the house"

Eugenio Vazzano, born in Melilli (SR) in 1958. "Last of the emigrants", at the age of just 14 he is in the United States where he works in various places to support his art studies. He then returned to Italy where he worked for years in fashion. But the call of his Sicily and its colors, it gets stronger. Hence the return to Melilli and the beginning of his expressive research that leads him to deepen aspects unusual, ancient and very current, of traditional, regional art and to take an interest in other productions related to scents and flavors of the earth.

From 1990 Eugenio begins with personal exhibitions in various cities of Italy (Syracuse, Taormina, Palermo, Milan, Munich, Rome, Berlin) In 1992 he created the Cooperative Society Factory Melilli.

The multiethnic personality of Eugenio Vazzano is the result of multiple experiences that during his artistic life they enriched him; at the basis of his training there is no break with his past people in the name of "modernity", but rather a union or even a skilful fusion of a highly original one innovative spirit that dresses in internationality what is the tradition of a civilization. This style in continuous ferment leads to a copious production of textile artifacts that reflect faithfully the eclecticism of their creator.