Building from Scratch

The founder, Lorenzo Reina, dedicated 30 years to creating this special place

Octagonal museum view by Lorenzo ReinaTeatro Andromeda

It all started from "Fattoria dell'Arte".

Octagonal museum by Lorenzo ReinaTeatro Andromeda

Path to the theater by Lorenzo ReinaTeatro Andromeda

It is a rural architectural complex, where a museum, a stable...

View from above the theater by Lorenzo ReinaTeatro Andromeda

... and a stone theater coexist in a happy symbiosis between art and nature.

Lorenzo Reina, the founder by Lorenzo ReinaTeatro Andromeda

Lorenzo is, in fact, a poet and a farmer, a sculptor and a shepherd.

Work, final idea by Lorenzo ReinaTeatro Andromeda

Stone after stone, for thirty years, he built what is now one of the wonders of Italy.

An architectural work that has very little to envy to the Roman amphitheaters that are jealously guarded.

Theater building, architectural detail by Lorenzo ReinaTeatro Andromeda

At Teatro Andromeda, he not only had an idea, but he carried out the work by himself.

Mother's house, top view by Lorenzo ReinaTeatro Andromeda

His creation is perched on a hillside within his 300-acre property that also houses donkeys and sheep.

Natural basin of the statues by Lorenzo ReinaTeatro Andromeda

His exhibition activity began in 1979 in Naples at Gabriele Zambardino's "La Spelonca" Gallery. Among the most recent exhibitions, we mention: Mabay, Palazzo Sant'Elia; Parva Naturalia, Bibliothèque de Caen; Winds of News, Modern Art Gallery Le Ciminiere Catania; Signals of Time

Enki gaze, detail by Lorenzo ReinaTeatro Andromeda

Agrigento's Palacongressi, Municipal Library in Casa Professa, Palermo; 54 "Venice Biennale, Italian Pavilion; Nervi Hall, Turin; Artists of Sicily, Ursino Castle Catania 2015. Italian Art Expo, Milan.

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