Carrara hosts exhibition on Pietro Pelliccia, master of postwar abstractionism

Opening Oct. 5, and running through Oct. 27, is the exhibition Pietro Pelliccia, Color and Form. Unpublished Works, dedicated to an interesting postwar Italian abstractionist, Pietro Pelliccia (Carrara, 1915 - 1980): the exhibition is held in Carrara, at Palazzo Binelli, and is curated by Nicola Ricci Contemporary Art. Pelliccia studied in his hometown, at the local Academy of Fine Arts: deeply scarred by World War II (he took part in the Russian campaign and was imprisoned), he returned to work only in 1948, in time to experience the debate (and later the rift) between abstractionism and realism. Approaching the Group of Eight, the group of artists born around critic Lionello Venturi and coming from the Fronte Nuovo delle Arti, he found himself sharing the positions of these eight painters (Afro Basaldella, Renato Birolli, Antonio Corpora, Mattia Moreni, Ennio Morlotti, Giuseppe Santomaso, Giulio Turcato, Emilio Vedova) who decided to be neither abstractionists or realists, but to overcome this opposition through the adoption of a free language that looked to the avant-garde and went beyond ideological conditioning.

Pelliccia’s work, “discovered” in 1955 by Lando Landini, was defined as “abstract-concrete” and “formalist”: Pelliccia was inspired as much by Kandinsky as by Klee and the Bauhaus, proposing original works that expressed themselves through a variety of techniques, from oil on canvas to fresco, from watercolor to collage. Director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara from 1963 to 1971, an attentive and modern artist who won several awards, Pelliccia is now on display in Carrara with 20 previously unpublished works, all of small and medium format. “So look at Pelliccia’s compositions,” reads the exhibition presentation, “are those fishermen with nets more abstract or more realistic, distributed around the edges of the paper, as if the sea were around the paper-and in which he enhances at the same time the white sheet: humble but real matter, to be taken into account?”

The exhibition opens Thursday, Oct. 5, at 5 p.m. and is free admission. Finestre Sull’Arte is a media partner of the exhibition.

Carrara hosts exhibition on Pietro Pelliccia, master of postwar abstractionism

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