Palermo: Exhibition of 27 gouaches by Salvatore Quasimodo at the Riso Museum
Thirty years after the last exhibition, the Riso Museum hosts the visual works of the Sicilian poet, a rare foray into art alongside the Nobel Prize winner's poems.
Palermo: Exhibition of 27 gouaches by Salvatore Quasimodo at the Riso Museum.
A precious exhibition at the Riso Museum in Palermo to reunite, after more than thirty years from the only exhibition, the 27 gouaches, or tempera drawings, created by the Sicilian poet Salvatore Quasimodo. The Nobel Prize winner's only foray into the world of visual arts, the works have been kept in a German bank vault for fifty years. The opening is scheduled for Friday 6 December at 17,30 pm in the Regional Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Riso, in Corso Vittorio Emanuele.
Salvatore Quasimodo (Modica 1901– Naples 1968) was fascinated by the visual arts but his only experiment in the field was the series of 27 gouaches created in 1953 almost by chance. In 1993 the poet's son, Alessandro Quasimodo has gathered them in a precious book, associating them with as many poems by his father. After the only Roman exhibition in 1994, the heirs of Alberto Lùcia, a friend of the poet, have granted the loan of the precious collection for the exhibition entitled “Beyond Quasimodo. The 27 gouaches. I already knew everything, and I wanted to sin”.
The inauguration will be attended by the regional councilor for Cultural Heritage and Sicilian identity, Francesco Paolo Scarpinato, the director of the Riso Museum, Evelina De Castro, and the other members of the scientific committee, Carola Arrivas Bajardi, Cristina Costanzo and Rosaria Raffaele Addamo.
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