About sixty works will document one of the artist's personal and stylistic junctions objectively among the most relevant in a timely manner for the first time.
About thirty paintings from public institutions and museums and from jealous private collections, especially from Rome and Sicily, and as many works on paper (sanguines, pastels, watercolours), mostly unpublished, from the collection of Antonio Pirandello's heirs.
In the aftermath of his father's death (1936), Pirandello's most questioning and suspended period came to an end, influenced together by Etruscan art, by de Chirico's metaphysics, by the example of Picasso need Braque and from surrealism – approached the latter directly in the late twenties spent by the artist in Paris.
And a cohesive time opens up, characterized by the sense of an obscure pain and an intense drama: a time in which the image enters a torn expressionism, which is in harmony with the most advanced points of contemporary Roman research (of Possible and the young man Guttuso), almost sensing the drama of war in advance.
This exhibition reconfirms how Fausto Pirandello was one of the greatest Italian painters of the century. This is now finally recognized also in Europe, and in France in particular, where he received yet another consecration in the exhibition 'Les Réalismes' by Pontus Hulten and Jean Clair.
Fausto Pirandello (1899-1975) emerges as an author devoted to a harsh vision of reality, and together with a dream capable of transfiguring it, transporting it into a dimension where rituals, myths and hallucinations dwell.
His figure has been revisited by important studies which have, among other things, led to the recent general catalog (Electa, edited by Claudia Gianferrari) and to an exhibition dedicated to his early maturity years from National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome.
Now, when theFausto Pirandello Association (AFP) promoted by the heirs Dora, Fausto and Silvio Pirandello, this exhibition on the time of the Second World War and Pirandello's dense industriousness in those years is ordered; exhibition intended to further promote his work in the birthplace of his father Luigi – Sicily, and Agrigento in particular”.
