The self-portraits of Fausto Pirandello, son of Nobel laureate Luigi, are on display.

From July 25 to Oct. 15, 2021, the Civic Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Anticoli Corrado, in the municipality of Rome, is dedicating an exhibition to the self-portraits of Fausto Pirandello, son of Nobel laureate in literature Luigi Pirandello.

Curated by Manuel Carrera, the exhibition brings together works from important public and private collections, including awatercolor from the civic collections of the city of Tarquinia, donated by Pierluigi Pirandello in 2007. A new self-portrait, donated by Giovanna Carlino Pirandello, will also enrich the collections of the Anticoli Corrado museum.

Over the course of his career, Fausto Pirandello produced more than one hundred self-portraits, both in oil and on paper, including drawings, etchings, watercolors, and pastels. From the first engraving of 1921, in which the painter self-portrays himself while painting a nude of a woman, to the last known self-portrait, dating from 1972, the exhibition traces the artist’s production through a single theme, allowing us to grasp its evolution: From the analytical sign of his formative years with Sigmund Lipinsky to the cubist decomposition of the postwar period, through the expressionism rich in tonal values of the “Roman School” period, to the return to an objective reality of his maturity. Alongside the works are period photographs, including famous portraits taken by painter and photographer Emanuele Cavalli, and unpublished documents from the archives of the Fausto Pirandello Foundation.

On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition, Manuel Carrera’s monograph dedicated to Fausto Pirandello’s self-portraits, published by De Luca Editori d’Arte and produced thanks to Mediatica - World Company Ideas, is presented to the public. With the support of unpublished works and documents (including excerpts from the diaries in which the artist noted the progress of his work), Carrera’s essay aims to propose a new reading of Pirandello’s figuration, while at the same time helping to review hitherto ambiguous data, such as the dating of some self-portraits, the chronology of interventions and retouches on important paintings and the reasons for the presence of several versions of the same painting.

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Hours: Tuesday to Friday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Tickets: Full 3 euros; reduced 2 euros.

Image: Fausto Pirandello, Atmosphere and Self-Portrait, detail (1956; private collection)

The self-portraits of Fausto Pirandello, son of Nobel laureate Luigi, are on display.

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