LEONCILLO NEL CENTENARIO DELLA NASCITA

conference sponsored from Department of Humanities - University of Perugia, City of Spoleto, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Spoleto

under the patronage of the Foundation Festival dei due Mondi of Spoleto

to Edited by **Stefania Petrillo **and Anna Leonardi

coordination Office of Culture of the City of Spoleto

communication and pr Gisella Zanmatti

Technical setup of the exhibition Coo.Be.C. Cooperative Cultural Heritage, Spoleto

graphic design and conference set-up Mario Brunetti, Stefano Bonilli, Emaki image and communication

lighting design and realization** Graziano Albertella, S.P.to.N. Ensemble**

we thank Bernardino Campello and the Civil Defense Group of the Municipality of Campello sul Clitunno

On the occasion of the centenary of Leoncillo Leonardi's birth, Spoleto-his hometown-and the Festival dei 2Mondi, which hosted an unforgettable anthological exhibition of his work in 1969, one year after his sudden death, are promoting, to starting in June 2015 until 2016, a series of events supported by the City of Spoleto, the City of Campello and the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Spoleto. Two appointments in the 58th Festival to remember an extraordinary figure of an artist who, through his works and diary, offers one of the most acute, original and intense testimonies of 20th-century Italian art.

The meeting brings together art historians, critics, artists and collectors to reconsider the great sculptor'sopera . to Nearly fifty years after the conference organized by the Festival in 1969, to side of an unforgettable anthological exhibition in the same San Nicolò complex, it seems essential to have the witnesses of that time confront the new generations of critics and historians, retracing Leoncillo's artistic itinerary from the first expressionist experiences to the postwar years - inflamed by the controversy between realists and abstractionists - up to the intense season of the Informal. A necessary reinterpretation to confirm Leoncillo's centrality in the history of sculpture not only in Italy and to measure the breadth of his research, the density of a tormented path but rich in courageous developments as well as the ability to move reflections and questions even today. tracks visible of the Artist's presence - four particularly significant sculptures - will mark the spaces and the path of the meeting.

program

Thursday, July 9, at 5 p.m.

Greetings

Fabrizio Cardarelli, Mayor of the City of Spoleto

Catiuscia Marini, President of the Region of Umbria

Giorgio Ferrara, Artistic Director of the Festival dei 2Mondi

Francesco Scoppola, Director General of Fine Arts and Landscape of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism

Franco Moriconi, Chancellor of the University of Perugia

Mario Tosti, Director of the Department of Humanities - University of Perugia

Leoncillo on the centenary of his birth

coordinated by Bruno Corà

Critics, witnesses and fellow travelers Giorgio Bonomi, **Stefano Di Stasio, Giancarlo Limoni, Mariastella Margozzi, Gianluca Marziani, Fabio Sargentini, Vittorio Brandi Rubiu **

**Anna Leonardi **Leoncillo's "interrupted dream."

Renato Barilli Coherence of Leoncillo

friday July 10, at 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

From the "Comet" to "under the stars of '44"

Italo Tomassoni coordinates

**Francesca Romana Morelli **The concept of non-naturalness in Leoncillo's early works.

**Chiara Fabi **1935-1945: the primacy of portraiture in Italy. Marini, Manzù, Leoncillo

**Claudia Terenzi **From the war years to Neocubism.

From neocubist suggestions to the 1957 turning point

coordinated by Caterina Zappia

**Stefania Petrillo **The art from (of) exhibiting (1948-1954)

**Bruno Mantura **A Leoncillo privatis- simo

Alessandro Del Puppo One thousand nine hundred and fifty-four

**Francesco Mariani **Around the Partisan Found.

**Luca Bochicchio **Albissola's war memorial: crisis and change

at 15.30-19.00

The Landing to the Informal

Maria Grazia Messina coordinates

**Enrico Mascelloni **Leoncillo: the horizontal sculptures.

**Italo Tomassoni **Between Informal and Baroque

Maria Ida Catalano The Writings of Leoncillo

Alberto Boatto The creativity of matter

**Enrico Crispolti **A "colorful sculpture": Fontana and Leoncillo

Bruno Toscano The meeting with Arcangeli

**Claudio Spadoni **Leoncillo and the Informal: some considerations.

**Marco Tonelli **Materia prima: Leoncillo's legacy in Italian sculpture.