Great Honor

SHAJIL
ANTHRU

GIACOMO
CUTTONE

litterateurs
REDEFINING WORLD
 Great Honor for Litterateur
Redefining World
Italian electronic notebook of literary criticism
RETROGUARDIA 3.0 , Itacanotizie and Tp24 features a review
by Antonino Contiliano appreciating Litterateur Redefining
World – the magazine from Kerala, India for featuring and
honoring Giacomo Cuttone as the Doue of the month in the
October issue.
RETROGUARDIA 3.0 - Miscellaneous electronic notebook of literary criticism edited by Francesco Sasso
and Giuseppe Panella (2008-2019).

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Giacomo Cuttone (Marsala, 1958) completed his studies at the Art School and the Academy of Fine Arts
in Palermo. He has participated in the artistic life since 1972 exhibiting, by invitation, in numerous
group exhibitions. He has to his credit several personal exhibitions held in the national territory. He
illustrated poetry books and literary magazines. In the 1980s he founded, together with other Sicilian
artists, the Cultural Center of Visual Arts of Marsala and, together with the Poet Antonino Contiliano,
as part of the cultural promotion of the Municipality of Petrosino, he gave life to a Review of
Contemporary Art and a Poetry Prize. He is the co-author of some collective poetry texts with
intersemiotic editing. In 2013 he published, together with Gianmario Lucini, Song of lost children,
Edizioni CFR, Piateda (SO). He lives in Mazara del Vallo and teaches Art and Image in lower secondary
schools.

Shajil Anthru (Kerala, 1968) is a writer in English and Malayalam who published seven books of
different genre. He is the writer of the shortest story EY published in the world ever which transcends
the boundaries of language and with a universal language and befits the writing of “Beyond meta post
modernism” epoch.

Rightly said by Antonino Contiliano, “And it is no coincidence that the cover image of the Indian
magazine "Litterateur Redefining world / October 2020", in differential allegorization, emblematizes -
according to the writer - the overall meaning of the co-operation of the two artists (the Indian Shajil
Anthru and the Sicilian Giacomo Cuttone) with the painting “The enigma of the hand” (acrylic on
canvas 80 × 80 of 2028) by the Sicilian artist Giacomo Cuttone”

The translation of the review by di Antonino Contiliano titled “L’artista G. Cuttone in India. Non solo
“tra” noi.” is reproduced here.

The artist G. Cuttone in India. Not just "between" us

Antonino Contiliano

Not only between us (neighbors) but "between" us and others (even far away), the pictorial instances
of Giacomo Cuttone's canvases, like ferried sails (in terms of common semio-cultural and political
transduction), arrive between the pages of Indian magazine "Litterateur Redefining world / October
2020" and return to their homeland, the Mediterranean routes. Redefine the world - "Redefining
world" - in fact it is the common idea that the voice and letter of "Litterateur" (by the writer and
publisher Shajil Anthru, Trivandrum Kerala - India) and the signs and semiosphere of the researches
and expressions of painting by Giacomo Cuttone intend to translate and carry on in a historical
reality which is completely different for shared purposes and ends. And it is no coincidence that the
cover image of the Indian magazine "Litterateur Redefining world / October 2020"
, in differential allegorization, emblematizes -subjects and authors known and frequented
according to the writer - the overall meaning ofby him. Among these there is a photo in
the co-operation of the two artists (the Indian company with Leonardo Sciascia. It cannot be
Shajil Anthru and the Sicilian Giacomo Cuttone) said that Giacomo Cuttone's painting
with the painting “The enigma of the hand” remained “among us”. Thanks to traditional
(acrylic on canvas 80 × 80 of 2028) by the newspapers and magazines (we remember
Sicilian artist Giacomo Cuttone.In the semioticsStefano Lanuzza's “Molloy” and Salvatore
of signs of different geo-etho-political origins,
Vecchio's “Spiragli”), it was already
the "differences" between the worlds of origin circulating outside the home. Today, without
do not in fact prevent cultures (proximate and borders, he travels through the pages of
distal) from "translating" the common need to electronic newspapers ("Spiragli",
"redefine" the "meaning" of co - the existence "Retroguardia", "Argo", "The Dreaming
of forms of life in an alternative, plural worldMachine" ... Even the historic Roman (paper)
(there are in fact several voices and magazine "Fermenti"). The latter, signed by
translations that enliven the pages of the writer, trying to grasp the est-ethical-
"Litterateur Redefining world / October 2020" political commitment and together with the
artistic invention, by our artist Cuttone,
The first pages of the magazine are dedicated hosted several works.
to the works of Cuttone, to his exhibitions
("Lavatoio Contumaciale" by Tomaso Binga, Extrapolating from a recent critical note of
Rome), to the works, such as the graphics, ours (for the catalog of the National
which intertwined art and poetry (as a single Exhibition "Researching contemporary art" in
verb-visual), or paintings that, interpreting / Agrigento, in which he participates with "The
translating) accompanied poems (by the writer) Satyr and his reflection", "Portrait of Sicily 4",
and collective poetic texts (edited by the "The slow passage of time" , “Good luck”), the
writer), or by Giacomo Giannone, or by fact that the painter Cuttone dialogues and
Francesca Incandela, or the book with translates the events of our time is
Gianmario Lucini ("The song of children lost ", unavoidable in order not to remain a
Ed. CFR, Piateda, 2013). The magazine also prisoner of the pockets of dominant powers.
reports photos that show him with different The chromatic pulsations of the works of the
Sicilian artist, Giacomo Cuttone, in fact,
establish critical thrusts and a logic that
filters and mixes the high, the low and the
infra-medium of the expressions that tell us
the reality in processual movement. "The
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