The Carmine convent of Marsala hosts the exhibition “until 19 October 2025”Piero Guccione – Leonardo Sciascia. Pictorial Chronicle of a friendship”, Edited by Sergio Troisi. A production of theExhibition of contemporary painting “City of Marsala “ born from an idea of ​​thePiero Guccione Archive.

On display will be one fifty works of the master of Scicli-of which the 90th anniversary of the birth (1935-2018) resorts next May 5-accompanied by A selection of letters Which, exchanged between the two intellectuals over twenty years, document the feelings of esteem and the profound friendship.

Introduced by preface Written by Sciascia (1921-1989) For some exhibitions and publications by Guccione in the seventies and eighties, they are on display in Marsala Oli, pastels and drawings from private collections from all over Italy. To animate the exhibition itinerary, they are then a dozen autographed letters selected by the rich correspondence between the two authors: rods by hand or dictiloscripts, as well as introducing visitors into the fascination of now lost epistolary formulas – not to mention missed meetings or failed appointments – allow you to enter the plots and feelings of their friendship and to investigate the thought of one and the other also in relation to the historical-political context of timeof which the writer of Racalmuto was one of the protagonists as a city councilor in Palermo and then as a deputy in Rome.

Explains the curator Troisi: “The friendship between Piero Guccione and Leonardo Sciascia winds through just under twenty years, Accompanied by a correspondence and marked by meetings, visits to Racalmuto or Scicli, exchanges of gifts, not only autographed copies of books, by Sciascia, or drawings and paintings, by Guccione. The two of the rest, the painter and the writer, shared many things, as well as a shy temperament and a taciturny nature: friendships, cities – Rome and above all Paris, frequented and loved by both -, obviously Sicily, its controversial historical condition as well as the landscape that unfolds from Agrigento to the Ibleo plateau, which Guccione and Sciascia cross in one direction or in the other, partnership“.

Ten black and white shots of black and white Giuseppe Leone (1936-2024), the great photographer Ragusano disappeared a year ago and the architect of the friendship between the two. Images that portray the iconic landscape of the Iblei and the Baroque architecture that were the subject of the “Guccione – Leone” exhibition (Palermo, 1984) dedicated to the relationship between the painting of one and the photography of the other.

Carlo Franza