ROME - One hundred works by Pericle Fazzini are on display from March 25 to July 2 in Rome at the Villa Borghese Orangery, now home to the Carlo Bilotti Museum.
The exhibition, curated by Alessandro Masi in collaboration with Roberta Serra and Chiara Barbato, presents a selection of sculptures, sketches, drawings, works and graphics by the artist, whom the poet Giuseppe Ungaretti called "the sculptor of the wind".
The art of Fazzini returns to Rome thirty years after the last exhibition, on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of the artist's birth - on May 4, 1913 - with works that retrace the entire creative life of the master from the Marches.
The exhibition brings together small and large works in wood, bronze and plaster: from the first works from the 1930s and 1940s such as the "Young Man declaiming" and the "Sybilla" to the original sketches of the famous "Resurrection" in the Pier Luigi room Nervi in the Vatican, the artist's last construction site.
Of particular interest are also 'Portrait of Anita', 'Portrait of Sibilla Aleramo', 'Man who screams' and Prophet', the latter rarely exhibited.
Pericle Fazzini, who died in Rome in 1987, is one of the highest examples of sacred art of the 20th century.
His longing for beauty as the revelation of the Divine marks a turning point in the plastic research that translates the sacred text of the Scriptures into a dialogue between Faith and Art.
The artist became famous thanks to the poet Mario Rivosecchi who introduced him to the circles of great Roman artists such as Mafai, Scipione, Mazzacurati and the gallery owner Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt who gave his art an expressionist and anti-rhetorical turn.
Fazzini's sculptures are kept in the major museums of the world, from the Moma in New York to the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome, from the Guggenheim Collection in Venice to the Center Pompidou in Paris and at the Momat in Tokyo.
Sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and the Vatican Department of Culture and Education, the exhibition is promoted by Roma Culture, the Capitoline Superintendence for Cultural Heritage and the 'Pericle Fazzini' Foundation and Historical Archive, accompanied by a catalog (De Luca Editore ) and free admission.
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