Nature seen without banality, the symbol more than the reality of the tree, the landscape given by hints. In this way, Carlo Monastra exhibited images of his world in a series of rapid sequences at the «Ai fiori chiari» gallery. For a couple of years now, he has remained loyal to these signs, he insists without skid. Of course it is a proof of consistency, which is not always found in young people who want to say something in their own way and then, by the way, let themselves be pulled by the sleeve from the first siren.

Monastra believes in the need for feeling and is not ashamed to even suggest it in words. Then, on the canvas, look for a harmony of spaces and colors and tackle the climbs without stopping at the first hint of big breath. More than the certificate of registry office is young in this tenacity of research. Even when the solutions remain imprecise, it continues to have confidence in the ideal values ​​and takes up the interrupted topic again. It is useless to look for formal and aesthetic data in his painting: they jumped on foot in favor of an even cosmic investigation. And in this there is the demonstration of a limit, but also of a passion that could lead him on the path of authentic painting without thereby renouncing himself.

"Giornale di Sicilia", November 21, 1969 Giuseppe Servello

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The revaluation of nature with the mediation of sentiment, the position of antithesis to the new barbarity of industrial civilization, do not remain pure ideological aspiration but are effectively expressed through the work of the young artist from Palermo, in fluid color, in the forms felt like life in his move. L'Ora », November 14, 1969 Franco Grasso

The revaluation of nature with the mediation of sentiment, the position of antithesis to the new barbarity of industrial civilization, do not remain pure ideological aspiration but are effectively expressed through the work of the young artist from Palermo, in fluid color, in the forms felt like life in his move.

  L'Ora », November 14, 1969 Franco Grasso