The return of Fausto Pirandello: at Villa Aurea the exhibition on the masterpieces of the twentieth century

There is an invisible thread, made of light and memory, that connects the Valley of the Temples to the great painting of the twentieth century. That thread will be re-tied on Friday, March 20, at 4:30 PM, at Villa Aurea, where the exhibition “Fausto Pirandello. The Magic of the Everyday” will be inaugurated.

This is not a simple exhibition: it is a return home. After the success of the Roman stop at the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, the works of Fausto Pirandello arrive in Agrigento, rediscovering those colors and that atmosphere that the son of Nobel Prize winner Luigi absorbed during the long summer days spent in Sicily. If his father revolutionized world theater, Fausto managed to break the rules of Italian painting, becoming one of the most tormented and significant protagonists of the last century.

A journey through masterpieces and unpublished pastels

Curated by Fabio Benzi and Flavia Matitti, the exhibition is the result of a prestigious synergy between the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca di Roma, the Archaeological Park of the Valley of the Temples, and the Fausto Pirandello Association.

The exhibition path is an intimate and powerful journey through about thirty paintings, selected from the artist's greatest masterpieces. Alongside the canvases, a precious core of works on paper stands out, with a particular focus on pastels, the technique that Pirandello favored in the post-war period to capture, with an almost feverish stroke, the density of reality.

From the Capital to the Valley: the value of return

If Rome was the city of his training and maturity, Sicily was for Fausto the golden reserve of his poetics. The chronological path proposed at Villa Aurea allows visitors to admire the evolution of a style that has never settled, marked by a “continuous innovative tension” and a unique ability to transform the everyday into a magical and, at times, ancestral vision.

The inauguration on Friday thus represents an unmissable event for the public and critics alike: the opportunity to observe the genius of Pirandello the son right there, just a few steps from Caos, where the family name has become legend, but where his painting today firmly claims its autonomous and extraordinary greatness.