Exhibition
Renato Guttuso
26.11.1977 — 06.01.1978
Show introduction
After the anthology at Palazzo della Pilotta, Parma in 1963, and at the Palazzo dei Normanni, Palermo in 1971, the exhibition dedicated to Renato Guttuso, which will be open at Galleria dello Scudo from November 26, 1977, is the first to bring together, according to an articulated critical project, a selection of paintings chosen from among the most significant to document the pictorial commitment of the Sicilian artist over a wide span of time.
After his first studies in 1935 and 1937 related to the movement of Current", the exhibition presents still lifes of the '40s, portraits of artists companions, such as Pietro Consagra and Giulio Turcato, paintings realized between 1945 and 1946, in addition to canvases, even large format, partly from public collections such as Boscaiolo of 1950, on loan from the civic collection of the Contemporary Art Gallery in Suzzara, Zolfara of 1955 from the Galleria d’Arte Moderna "Mario Rimoldi" in Cortina d'Ampezzo, La vucciria of 1974 owned by the University of Palermo, or the large canvas Comizio di quartiere of 1975 coming from a private collection.
In the catalog the artist publishes some notes of appreciation for the exhibition in Verona, that confirm the intention of the Gallery to make merit, through a coherent and organic exhibition project, to an artist who in thirty-five years of activity has kept faith with his own feelings and convictions.
Artist
Renato Guttuso was born in Bagheria, in the province of Palermo, in 1912. Son of an agronomist with liberal ideas, from his earliest youth he loved painting which he explored by frequenting in his hometown the studio of the naturalist painter Domenico Quattrociocchi and the workshop of the decorator Emilio Murdolo. In Palermo, instead, where he studied at high school, he frequented the studio of the painter Pippo Rizzo. He made his debut in 1928 at the Sicilian Mostra Sindacale. After his high school diploma in the classics, 1930, he enrolled at the law faculty but soon abandoned it in order to devote himself completely to painting.
