“Marine Atmospheres”: Exhibition by Sicilian artist Stefania Vanni at Palazzo Butera 

November 22-28, 2025

Sicilian artist Stefania Vanni’s new exhibition in Bagheria, Palazzo Butera, on the Piano Nobiliare, is an event curated by Pina Castronovo, with the patronage of the Municipality and the Bagheria Pro Loco, “The City of Villas and Taste.” In this refined setting, “ATMOSFERE MARINE” opens on Saturday, November 22, 2025, with a collection of 10 works that will remain on display at Palazzo Butera until Friday, November 28, in the prestigious municipal headquarters.

“I have a decades-long friendship with Stefania Vanni,” explains curator Pina Castronovo, “consisting of the art she has always loved and produced! With this tenth exhibition (the third I have personally curated), we return to the city of Bagheria, presenting to the local community a series of projects on the sea, those same transparencies that brighten the horizon of her own home. Indeed, from her unique historic residence, Solanto Castle, Stefania Vanni captures the atmosphere of the spectacle offered by the blue planet in its different seasons and at various times of the day. These MARINE ATMOSPHERES, translated onto canvases of various sizes with both interpreted and authentic colors, constitute the eponymous painting exhibition of 2025.” “I have a decades-long friendship with Stefania Vanni,” explains curator Pina Castronovo, “consisting of the art she has always loved and produced! With this tenth exhibition (the third I have personally curated), we return to the city of Bagheria, presenting to the local community a series of projects on the sea, those same transparencies that brighten the horizon of her own home. Indeed, from her unique historic residence, Solanto Castle, Stefania Vanni captures the atmosphere of the spectacle offered by the blue planet in its different seasons and at various times of the day. These MARINE ATMOSPHERES, translated onto canvases of various sizes with both interpreted and authentic colors, constitute the eponymous painting exhibition of 2025.” “Stefania Vanni’s art,” comments art critic Massimiliano Reggiani, “has now reached a level of serene and luminous maturity. By family tradition, as well as by her own sensitivity, her paintings speak the language, both symbolic and narrative, of the great Romantic school of continental landscape painting. They are images anchored in reality but not descriptive, capable of transforming the personal experience of beauty into a sum of seemingly free veils, where the sea loses its physicality to sublimate in a whirlwind of emotions.”