PETRILLO VIRTUAL MUSEUM

 

The biography
A testimony
The poetics

 

T H E   P O E T I C S

by Vito Apuleo

 

His historical desperation becomes the logical and natural solution of

the conflict between individuality and social life. His works are inter-          

woven with an expressionism similar to that of Caravaggio: a lay

reading of the human experience and of its passions finds lyrical repre-                      

sentation in his artistic universe.                                                  

Men and things meet each other, clash with each other, tear each   

other apart to finally find a romantic solution.                                                       

The reality which often humiliates the sentiments, the labyrinth of the 

memory (according to Petrillo decadent and romantic), the anguish   

of doubt is the imaginary stage on which Petrillo plays, with the

painbrushes, his "chorale".