Figura, Paisaje & Marina

On the occasion of the 2020 edition of the Borgo Universo Festival we asked An Wei to remember and commemorate with his elegant and gentle style the figure of Angelo Vassallo, "fisherman mayor" of Pollica (a municipality in Campania with which Aielli is twinned), murdered in 2010 at the hands of the Camorra. Vassallo was a simple fisherman who cared about the priceless beauty of his land and who out of love for his sea decided to run in the 1995 municipal elections, which he won against all expectations. From then until 2010 Vassallo fought intensely in the name of legality and good politics for the environmental and cultural protection of a magnificent stretch of our Italy. In 2010 Vassallo was killed in a mafia attack of which the culprits are still unknown. An Wei recalls with great elegance and delicacy his face full of ethical and moral rigor: the bust silhouetted against the sky, which from afar seems marble, reveals itself upon closer inspection as being made of stars and celestial bodies. The amphora recalls his love for the sea. In the third panel, an ambiguous landscape acts as a point of union between these two lands, Aielli and Pollica, recalling both the sea of ​​Cilento and the Fucino valley with its mountains and the disappeared lake. The body of water brings to mind the crystalline sea of ​​Pollica while the mountain panorama in the background is extremely similar to the Marsican panorama that accompanied the artist during his days of work in Aielli.(cit. Borgouniverso.com)