A leading figure in twentieth century art

The exhibition held at the Gallery of Modern Art in the Pitti Palace wants to pay tribute to one of the greatest artist of the twentieth century Tuscan art; Enzo Faraoni. He was a painter and engraver from Florence.

The exhibition offers a good selection of works by Enzo Faraoni which testify his artistic career. He expressed the poetic everyday life of simple and concrete things throughout a delicate chromatic range.

A chronological and thematic journey makes the visitor discover the artist, one of the most important of the twentieth century, and his artistic work. Sixty-four paintings and twelve drawings, from the early 1930s to the last experiments in November 2004 when a serious eye disease forced Faraoni to give up his artistic career, are on display in the exhibition.

Through the images which create the different sections of the exhibition, the dominant motifs of Faraoni’s pictorial and graphic art are reconstructed, from self-portraits and female subjects to still lives and his interest in the plant world. Faraoni’s brushstrokes changed over the years, as well as the use of colours, depending on whether he painted female portraits or still life and vegetation, a subject to which he devoted himself consistently throughout his career.

 

Enzo Faraoni (Santo Stefano di Magra 1920 – Impruneta 2017), Autoritratto di Enzo Faraoni, olio su cartone. Firenze, Galleria degli Uffizi, Depositi
Enzo Faraoni (Santo Stefano di Magra 1920 – Impruneta 2017), Autoritratto di Enzo Faraoni, olio su cartone. Firenze, Galleria degli Uffizi, Depositi
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Nature and reality in the painting of Enzo Faraoni

Gallery of Modern Art, Pitti Palace, Florence

04 February – 01 May 2011

Exhibition curated by Mirella Branca

Exhibition catalogue published by Edizioni Polistampa (available only in Italian)

Soprintendenza Speciale per il Patrimonio Storico, Artistico ed Etnoantropologico e per il Polo Museale della città di Firenze; Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Palazzo Pitti