"1974 was a year of that fervent is a painting titled "The bird of the night," which, among others, well exemplifies some bearing sections of the poetics of Zotti, the artist Trieste - and Venetian and European - had long reached the maturity, and, after the onset accents excited prepared the calculations to come in the vast canvas giving a sort of demonstration of method". 
With these words Giuffrè introduces the exhibition at Palazzo Sarcinelli Carmelo Zotti, the first retrospective dedicated to the artist Trieste.