Stefania Puzzovio: Painting the Energy of Parabita

Some collaborations begin with a shared idea. Others begin with a place, a colour, or a rhythm.

Stefania Puzzovio is an artist from Parabita whose work is deeply connected to the town’s history, atmosphere and energy. Working primarily with abstract painting, she creates pieces guided less by literal representation and more by instinct, movement and emotion.

The work now exhibited at Palazzo Piccinno is part of her exploration of blue. It is an abstract painting created while following the rhythm of music, allowing sound, gesture and colour to shape the composition almost as one continuous movement.

There is something especially fitting about this process for the Palazzo. Music becomes colour, rhythm becomes form, and blue becomes something more than a shade: an atmosphere, a feeling, perhaps even a memory. The result sits naturally within our idea of Puglia Surrealista, where familiar elements are viewed from a less expected angle and the identity of a place is expressed through emotion as much as through landscape.

For us, this collaboration is also part of a wider conversation we continue to explore through Puglia Surrealista: a way of looking at Puglia beyond its familiar images. A Puglia made of ancient histories, unexpected details, strong personalities and places suspended somewhere between memory and imagination.

When Blue Follows the Music

The painting displayed at Palazzo Piccinno is part of Stefania’s research into blue, but its story begins with sound.

Created by following the rhythm of music, the work captures a process in which painting becomes almost performative. The brush responds to tempo, pauses and changes in intensity, while the colour develops through movement rather than through a fixed image or predetermined composition.

This makes the piece especially resonant within the Palazzo. It does not try to describe Puglia directly. Instead, it evokes it through rhythm, instinct and atmosphere. Its blue can suggest the sea, the night, distance, calm or something more elusive, leaving each guest free to discover a different meaning.

That openness is central to Puglia Surrealista: a Puglia that is not explained all at once, but felt slowly, through fragments, sensations and unexpected encounters.

A Painting Becomes Part of the Palazzo

The presence of Stefania’s work at Palazzo Piccinno feels especially meaningful because it was created by someone who knows Parabita not only as a place, but as a source of creative energy.

Her painting does not sit inside the Palazzo simply as decoration. It becomes part of the story of the house and of the town around it: a meeting point between contemporary abstraction, local memory, music and the quieter, more unexpected side of Puglia.

A piece of Parabita, painted in blue and set in motion by sound.

you can find Stefania's work going straight into her studio in Parabita - Via Padre Serafino 4 or checking her work on Instagram: stefany.art__