Linguaglossa, from 10 December an exhibition on Piero Guccione

From 10 December and until 31 March 2024 the Francesco Messina Regional Museum - Salvatore Inorpora of Linguaglossa will host the exhibition “Piero Guccione. Pain and wonder ". Saturday 9 December, The exhibition will be open to the public from 11.30, the inauguration will be held.

A project of the Superintendency of Cultural and Environmental Heritage of Catania, led by the architect Donatella Aprile, conceived to promote and enhance the regional museum dedicated to contemporary art of Eastern Sicily. An initiative accepted, promoted and financed by the Department of Cultural Heritage - Regional Department of Cultural Heritage. The exhibition is created in collaboration with the Piero Guccione Archive and the Municipality of Linguaglossa. The installation was curated by Giuseppe Lo Magno Artecontemporanea.

Twenty-six works by the master from Scicli exhibited in Linguaglossa. These are eleven oils and mixed techniques 15 crayons, made by 1975 al 2008 and from private collections. The title is inspired by a quote by Aristotle that the painter makes his own, as a reflection and denunciation, to remember how "pain and wonder " are the basis of philosophy but also of painting.

Guccione's work

Guccione has been called the most "Leopardian" among the artists of the twentieth century for the echoes of solitude and infinity that evoke his works. A landscape, What Guccione transfers to the canvas, which is not even foreign Etna, the "mountains”, which the master recalls in a pastel on paper of 1995 with its snow-capped and visible summit, in the clarity of certain winter mornings, even kilometers away from the Hyblaean countryside plateau.

A documentary section completes the exhibition. Among the documents is a touching handwritten letter from Gesualdo Bufalino, addressed to his friend Piero, of whom he was a profound admirer. In a letter dated May 1995 – Bufalino would disappear in a tragic accident the following year – the writer from Comiso says: “This seems to me the meaning of your art, which combines pity together for a world offended by man and an insatiable thirst for innocence ".

If you want to visit Linguaglossa you can choose to spend a comfortable stay a Villa Maria. Our b&B is about Linguaglossa about 30 minutes by car. You can also reach the Pordemond municipality with the Circumetnea railway.