Gilda Gubiotti was born in Palermo. A student of Michele Dixit Domino
 and Albano Rossi, she began to work as an artisan jeweler and costume
 designer for the theater at a very young age. By 1978, she was studying
 with Lilloni and Michele Cascella in Milano. Inspired by their work and their
 ability to express the harmony of nature, she began to paint not only
 landscapes but also Sicilian scenes and gardens, emerging herself in
 nature and the portrayal of Mother Earth.
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 Mario Schifano (Homs, September 20, 1934 -
 Rome, January 26, 1998) is considered by many
 as a leading figure in the Italian Pop Art and as
 Andy Warhol's heir, even if he himself did not
 wish to be framed by any artistic movement,
 and is one of the originators of Italian and
 European Contemporary Art. He is mostly
 remembered by many of his students and fans
 in his exhibited performances in which he
 created large scale paintings in acrylic and
 enamel. Schifano was a passionate student of
 new pictorial techniques and among the first to
 use the computer for creating works. He
developed his images on the computer and then transferred them on emulsified canvases which he called,
"computerized canvas". He was one of the many artists who answered the call by Luigi Corrao, at that time
Mayor of Gibellina, for the reconstruction of the town that was destroyed along with other villages of Belice
Valley by the earthquake of 1968. In 1984, he made and donated to the Gibellina's Contemporary Art Civic
Museum theCycle of Naturevcomprising of ten large canvases. He prophetically said: "Perhaps I had given
the people of Gibellina something that in time will become their own." More...

Mario Schifano (Homs, 20 settembre 1934 – Roma, 26 gennaio 1998) è stato ritenuto da molti l'esponente
di spicco della Pop Art italiana (sebbene lo stesso Schifano preferiva non essere inquadrato in alcuna
corrente artistica), fu considerato l'erede di Andy Warhol. Rappresentò un punto fondamentale dell'Arte
Contemporanea italiana ed europea; restano memorabili le sue esibizioni tra centinaia di allievi e
appassionati con la creazione di dipinti di enormi dimensioni realizzati con smalti e acrilici. Appassionato
studioso di nuove tecniche pittoriche, fu tra i primi ad usare il computer per creare opere e riuscì ad
elaborare immagini dal computer e riportarle su tele emulsionate (le "tele computerizzate"). Fu uno dei
numerosi artisti che risposero all’appello dell’allora sindaco di Gibellina Ludovico Corrao, intellettuale
illuminato e poi Senatore della Repubblica Italiana, per la ricostruzione della cittadina, distrutta assieme ad
altri paesi della Valle del Belice dal terremoto del 1968. Nel 1984, dopo aver realizzato le dieci grandi tele
che compongono il Ciclo della Natura, disse profetico: “forse ho dato alla gente di Gibellina qualcosa che
resterà loro nel tempo”. Continua…