Pericle Fazzini's works return to Rome after 30 years. For the 110th anniversary of his birth

From March 25 to July 2, 2023, the Museo Carlo Bilotti, Aranciera di Villa Borghese hosts the exhibition Pericle Fazzini, the Sculptor of the Wind, curated by Alessandro Masi, with Roberta Serra and Chiara Barbato, and catalog contributions by Bruno Racine, Claudio Strinati and Salvatore Italia.

Promoted by Roma Culture, Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali and the “Pericle Fazzini” Foundation and Historical Archives, the exhibition presents a selection of about one hundred works by the artist including sculptures, sketches, drawings and graphics.

The works of Pericle Fazzini,"the sculptor of the wind," as Giuseppe Ungaretti called him, return to the exhibition in Rome after 30 years, on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of the artist’s birth. The exhibition traces the entire creative life of the master from the Marche region, through small and large-scale sculptures - including woods, bronzes and plaster casts - drawings and graphic works: from the first tests of the 1930s and 1940s such as the Young Man Declaiming (1937-38) and the Sibyl (1947) to the original sketches of the Resurrection of the Pier Luigi Nervi Hall in the Vatican. Of particular interest are Portrait of Anita (1933), Portrait of Sibilla Aleramo (1947), Screaming Man (1949-50) and Prophet (1949), the latter rarely exhibited.

The career of the artist, among the most highly regarded of the “Roman School,” who was born in Grottammare (AP) on May 4, 1913, and died in Rome on December 4, 1987, ranks among the highest examples of 20th-century sacred art. His yearning for beauty as the unveiling of the Divine marks a turning point in contemporary plastic research, translating the sacred text of Scripture into a dialoguing form between Faith and Art. Pericle Fazzini knew his fame thanks to the poet Mario Rivosecchi, who introduced him to the circles of the Rome of Mafai, Scipione, Mazzacurati, Ziveri and the gallerist Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt (Galleria La Cometa), who impressed a turning point in art in an expressionist and anti-rhetorical sense against all forms of regime art and celebratory of fascism.

A rich and informed catalog (De Luca Editore d’Arte) carries texts by Alessandro Masi, Bruno Racine, Claudio Strinati, Salvatore Italia, Roberta Serra and Chiara Barbato. Linked to the exhibition event and soon to be published is a second volume, dedicated to Fazzini’s writings, edited by Italian language historian Giulio Ferroni.

For info: www.museocarlobilotti.it

Image: Pericle Fazzini, Sketch for the Resurrection (1970-1975; 68.5 x 150 x 20 cm; Fazzini heirs collection)

Pericle Fazzini's works return to Rome after 30 years. For the 110th anniversary of his birth

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