2016 / People / Life Style (Non-Pro)

Nazareno

  • Photographer
    Marco Scintilla

Nazareno is an Italian-Argentine painter 82 years old. In the '70s, after teaching at the Academy of Art in Buenos Aires, he joined a collective of artists and turned to long years in South America, having as a house a small tent. In 1992 he arrived in Italy, and after living five years in Genoa, he moved to Sicily, Santa Elisabetta, a small town in the province of Agrigento, the country of origin of parents.Here he found its ideal size, where to find inspiration for his paintings and where he could live his great love for the art. Every day he takes the bus and went to painting and exhibiting his paintings in the center of Agrigento, managing to charm with its simplicity all passersby. Nazareno died March 23, 2016.