Piero Guccione
the monumental works
by
Francesco Gallo and Mario Ursino
25 February to 10 April 2011
Opening February 25, 2011
20.00
Friday, February 25, 2011, the Province of Palermo and The Swan GG edition, presents the exhibition "Piero Guccione monumental works."
The exhibition, organized with the contribution of Fondazione Mediterraneo Rome, and set up inside the main floor of Palazzo Sant'Elia in Palermo, for the first time gathers together the preparatory studies and the most important achievements of public Piero Guccione . This is the big oil, commissioned the artist by the then president of the Senate Marcello Pera, who stands in the Hall of Garibaldi Palazzo Madama in Rome, the so-called "transatlantic" of senators. The exhibition also features two blades that adorn the magnificent Chapel of the Baptistery of the official church of the Italian state, or St. Mary of the Angels and Martyrs in Rome, inaugurated by Antonio Paolucci, director of the Vatican Museums, which work he writes: " are a true masterpiece of our century should be able to use the figurative tradition with the same ease with which we use the literary language, a tool of communication that we know to be was built by Dante and Petrarch, Bembo, and by Manzoni and yet we need to express ideas and values, feelings and passions of our time. This is the difficult path he has chosen to walk Piero Guccione, in dealing with religious subjects. The risky operation, on the verge of rashness, yielded fascinating results. "
Finally, the work commissioned by the Region to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy and Autonomy, located in the hall of the Palazzo Abatellis Triumph of Death, is ideally part of this process, which should be connected to the fact Palazzo Sant'Elia Sicilian Regional Gallery. With this exhibition we understand how Guccione comes to paint these monumental canvases, with the exposure of the preparatory studies. It is also interesting because it can be seen, for example, the canvas of the Senate Guccione has used the creation of a recording on which he then battered the different variations that will deepen, and the work of building has been designed with Abatellis a work on canvas, of momentum.
Of great interest also l'esposizione di ingrandimenti dei luoghi in cui Guccione dipinge, e dell'artista stesso, con vari personaggi che lo frequentano.
La mostra è curata da Francesco Gallo Mazzeo ,critico e docente di storia dell'arte all'Accademia delle belle Arti di Roma e da Mario Ursino, Vice Soprintendente della Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna di Roma. Inaugurano il Presidente della Provincia Regionale di Palermo, Giovanni Avanti e l'Assessore Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell'Identità Siciliana, Sebastiano Missineo.
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