Antonio Nasuto - The three Graces, 2099

Oil on jute canvas, 60x80.

Antonio Nasuto graduates in Architecture from the University of Naples, where he subsequently earns a three-year specialization in Design. This multidisciplinary training has a decisive influence on his visual language, characterized by compositional rigor and attention to the structure of the image.

He is currently a professor of Artistic Anatomy at the Academy of Fine Arts in Foggia, combining his teaching duties with ongoing painting research focused on the human body and the narrative dimension of the figure.

He has exhibited in solo and group shows at national and international levels. Among the highlights: solo exhibitions at the Palazzetto dell’Arte in Foggia (2002, 2003), the group exhibition dedicated to P. P. Pasolini at the Tribunale della Dogana in Foggia (2007), 150 Souvenirs d’Italie at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea “Atelier degli Artisti” in Rome (2011), Il filo di Arianna. Labyrinth of the physical and mental at Palazzo delle Arti Beltrani in Trani (2011), the solo show at Palazzo Ducale Paternò Caracciolo in Pietramelara (2013) and L’ospite inatteso at Villetta Barrea (2016).

In this context, the painting The Three Graces 2099 comes into play, which does not merely evoke a classical myth but becomes a reflection on the climate crisis and humanity’s future. The emblem of beauty, fertility, and harmony is transposed into the future on an apocalyptic horizon, where the arid and desertified landscape becomes a metaphor for the loss of balance between humankind and nature. The three female figures transform into the last witnesses of a world already at sunset, guardians of a lush past that risks disappearing.

The choice of 2099 is not accidental: the end of the century appears as a symbolic threshold, the point at which the consequences of our actions will be irreversible. Through this rereading of classical themes, the painting aims to shake the viewer’s conscience, forcing them to a tight confrontation with the fragility of our time. Because art, like history, is never merely an image of the past, but a troubling reflection of our present.