On the seventieth anniversary of the death of Paride Pascucci, who died in 1954 after a long life, the multi-venue exhibition “Paride Pascucci. Faces and Stories of Maremma” (Saturnia, Polo Culturale Pietro Aldi; Grosseto, Polo Culturale Le Clarisse; Manciano, church of San Leonardo) celebrates the other great art glory of Maremma, who came after Pietro Aldi and is akin to him in their total devotion to art, their similar training, and even family ties.
Thanks to important loans from public and private collections, the show delineates the entire course of the artist’s career, in particular the years of his formation as a painter and of his public success on the national scene. These large canvases, painted with sure brushstrokes and skilful colour combinations, reveal crude and sometimes dramatic aspects of daily life in Maremma around the turn of the twentieth century and present the original creative contribution of a provincial Italian artist, still little known because of his precise life choices, to the vaster and more significant panorama of European realism and naturalism. The intense emotion that springs forth from the works of Paride Pascucci reveals his deep, heartfelt participation in the rhythms and customs of his land and his people, which still live for us through his eye, focused on discovering the poetry, beauty, and even heroism in hardworking poverty.