SHORT DESCRIPTION:
In his artistic research he was influenced by the German expressionist artists George Grosz and Otto Dix, making an original “symbolist Expressionism” which also recalls the style of the European satirical graphic of the 20th Century. He uses a variety of techniques, from design, to tempera, pastels and mixed media, and his graphic production is significant: etchings, lithographs and serigraphs. The artist has had numerous personal shows organized in Italy, (especially in Palermo and Rome) and abroad. He was a friend of writers such
as Thomas Mann and Salvatore Quasimodo, as well as Leonardo Sciascia to which he was tied by a great friendship.
For his works Caruso drew inspiration from nature, history (especially the Sicilian history) and from the impact with some social tragedies (as the drawings on the patients of a mental hospital in Palermo or on the war and hunger in the Third World). The work, preserved in the collection of the Museum of Castelbuono, was acquired after the personal show dedicated to the artist and represents a bust of a woman in the foreground with a still life composed of a vinegrape branch and two bunches of grapes. In the background, it is possible to see the quadrangle mole of the Castle of Ventimiglia on the left in reference to Castelbuono itself and its symbolic monument.