Thursday, July 4 at 17:30, at Palazzo Collicola’s piano nobile, the books Leoncillo. Materia radicale 1958-1968 and Piccolo Diario, published by Skira and Galleria dello Scudo, will be presented.

Leoncillo Leonardi, one of the most important sculptors of the twentieth century, was born in Spoleto in 1915 and died in Rome in 1968.

The books are the result of almost two years of work and were published by Skira on the occasion of the anthological exhibition held between December 2018 and April 2019 at Galleria dello Scudo in Verona: Materia Radicale 1958-1968.

The first of the volumes, the real catalogue of the exhibition, the most documented, extensive and exhaustive monograph that has appeared so far on the artist, includes numerous critical interventions and bio-bibliographic texts (including Enrico Mascelloni, Martina Corgnati, Marco Tonelli, Fabio Sargentini, Lorenzo Fiorucci, Laura Lorenzoni, Elena dalla Costa). The second is a precious publication of exceptional scientific and bibliographical interest: the complete, transcribed, revised and annotated anastatic copy of the Piccolo diario, the most important poetic text by Leoncillo.

The presentation of the volumes, introduced by Marco Tonelli, Artistic Director of Palazzo Collicola, includes speeches by the curator of the exhibition Enrico Mascelloni, Fabio Sargentini, owner of the Galleria L’Attico in Rome, who worked with Leoncillo from 1957 to the year of his death, and art critic Lorenzo Fiorucci, who edited an unpublished study on Leoncillo’s correspondence with some of the most successful critics of the time, including Longhi, Arcangeli, Brandi.

After the presentations that took place in May at the Galleria dello Scudo in Verona and L’Attico in Rome, this one in Spoleto, third and final, represents the homage that Leoncillo’s hometown pays to his most famous and worldwide appreciated artist.

The presentation will also be enriched by readings from the Piccolo diario performed by actress Elsa Agalbato.