It is from the end of the 60s that the Michelangelo Gallery begins its journey in the cultural activities of Trani. At that time a courageous art lover, an enthusiast, laid the foundations for what today is a cultural and artistic heritage of great value. His name was Michele Ladogana. It is to him that this event is dedicated, organized by his family and his two friends as well as creatives, artists on display: Mario Colonna and Michele Paloscia.
In our century the mass media, advertising and economics applied to art are downgrading the role and value of painting. Mario Colonna and Michele Paloscia, on the contrary, enhance its emotional and aesthetic qualities, trying to reconcile the relationship between Man and Nature, between chromatic virtuosity and maritime views. Hence the theme of the sea presented today in the Pelagus exhibition: a sense of freedom, strength, calm, beauty, infinite sensations for infinite interpretations.
The objective of the event is therefore to bring the visitor closer to the true sense of art, to that desire for the sublime that only naturalistic mimesis can give. Artists such as Colonna and Paloscia help us to recognize and receive that love for art that Michele Ladogana had and that he passed on to his family.
