Painter Piero Guccione has disappeared in Modica. He was 83 years old

Painter Piero Guccione passed away at the age of 83 on Oct. 6 in Modica, in the province of Ragusa, in the Ospedale Maggiore where he had been hospitalized for a few days.
Born in Scicli on May 5, 1935, Guccione studied at theArt Institute of Catania and then at theAcademy of Fine Arts in Rome, where he moved in 1954 and where he held his first solo exhibition in 1960. From 1966 to 1969 he was Renato Gattuso ’s assistant for the chair of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, and from 1979 he held the chair of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania.

He participated in the 10th and 12th editions of the Rome Quadrennial, more precisely in 1972 and 1992, and was invited to several editions of the Venice Biennale, including 1988, when a personal room was dedicated to him in the Italian Pavilion. In 1984 he was invited by theHirshhorn Museum in Washington for international exhibition "Drawings 1974-84," while the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York invited him the following year for an anthological exhibition of graphic works.

Guccione was also the leader of the “Gruppo di Scicli” of which Gattuso spoke in an interview with Tempo: “In the desert of Italian painting there is the purity of intent of a group of artists who work in the extreme periphery, far from the dynamism of the metropolis, from the art biennials, from the consumerist speed from which not even the work of art can escape.” With Piero Guccione, Italian art loses one of the great protagonists of the second twentieth century and the early 2000s.

Painter Piero Guccione has disappeared in Modica. He was 83 years old

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