Camilleri and Guccione: two Sicilian visions meet through the gaze
The Andrea Camilleri Foundation places the writer’s words in dialogue with six works on paper by the painter.
Rome’s Andrea Camilleri Foundation has dedicated Racconti dello sguardo to Piero Guccione, creating the encounter the two artists never had in life. Six works on paper—sea, sky, trees and fragile plants—were shown alongside a pastel Guccione made for a Camilleri story and a video section on the painter’s work. Organised with the Piero Guccione Archive and supported by Intesa Sanpaolo, the initiative grew from a wish expressed by the Sicilian writer. It brings together two ways of turning the island into memory and language: Camilleri’s literary Vigàta and Guccione’s attentive view of the Mediterranean landscape. The exhibition also begins a wider programme exploring the relationship between Camilleri’s writing and other art forms.