Teodoro Agricola
Teodoro Agricola, born in Syracuse in 2001, earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Painting from the Accademia di Belle Arti Catania (2024), where he is currently completing a two-year master’s program in Painting and Contemporary Languages.
He lives and works between Catania and Syracuse.
He bases his artistic practice on a multidisciplinary language, incorporating sculpture, painting, photography, and digital animation. His research focuses primarily on the investigation of matter, through a comprehensive reconsideration of materialism, in which even matter commonly defined as inert is recognized as “alive”: it is not a passive element, but an active subject that dynamically participates in natural cycles.
This translates into works that constantly examine the microscopic and macroscopic, a practice in which scientific research dialogues with material experimentation, designed to bring to light what lies in the invisible and the dense network of natural connections.
Specifically, he identifies the ecosystem as his field of investigation, observing it as an open and constantly evolving system: a fluid structure in which every single entity, from the most obvious to the most hidden, proves crucial to maintaining the delicate balance of the whole.
In 2026, he presented the work Olobionte [Holobiont] in the group exhibition “Ctonio” (Isola Catania, 2026), organized by the Accademia di Belle Arti Catania as part of the Painting and Contemporary Languages course.
Olobionte [Holobiont] project is also part of the CARE & ACTION Symposium at Reallabor FASSFABRIK, Vienna [AT] on October 23-25, 2026.
