Leonardo Sciascia in family intimacy, with his wife Maria, for a walk in the countryside at La Noce. While being interviewed by a television station. When he drinks a coffee at the bar of his country with some friends. These are the shots that the photographer of racalmuto Peter Tulumello he “gives” us to tell the great Sicilian writer in his most private dimension. In Racalmuto in fact. Where Tulumello attended Sciascia for over a decade. The photographic exhibition “Leonardo da Regalpetra” opens today the celebrations for the centenary of his birth which occurs on January 8th.
An anniversary that does not want to be penalized by the Coronavirus. For this reason, despite the pandemic, today at 18.15 pm the events for the centenary (preceded by a conference last November) will open, however, with an online event. The inauguration of the “Leonardo da Regalpetra” exhibition by Pietro Tulumello will be visible on the Facebook pages of CasaSciascia, Strada degli Scrittori, Circolo Unione Racalmuto and the newspaper Despite everything.
Thirty precious photos taken by his friend Tulumello in Racalmuto
The exhibition, thirty precious photographs, many of which unpublished, was set up in the "Stanza dello scirocco". A large space of the ancient noble palace of Racalmuto, seat of the initiatives of CasaSciascia, who organized the event. It is curated by Salvatore Picone and Gigi Restivo. Alongside the photographic exhibition, an exhibition of the first editions of the books of the great Sicilian writer has been set up. With his texts that accompanied rare and precious Art Folders by Renato Guttuso, Edo Janich, Giacomo Porzano, Bruno Caruso, Felice Rognoni, Raffaello Piraino.
Leonardo Sciascia was born on January 8, 1921 (he died on November 20, 1989) and in fact another online event is scheduled for that date that will remember the writer on his 1979th birthday. In the meantime, however, we start with these rare and unknown photos that make us the image of a Sciascia immersed in the atmosphere of his Racalmuto. The more everyday and spontaneous ones that Pietro Tulumello was able to fix with the lens of his camera thanks to the friendship that bound him to the writer. In the background that Sicily always present in Sciascia's works, a kind of metaphor for the whole world. Because, in some way, emblematic of an infinity of Sicilian problems and contradictions but not only Sicilian ones. He talked about it himself in the famous novel-denunciation Sicily as a metaphor born from an interview with the writer, in XNUMX, by the French journalist Marcelle Padovani.
The exhibition opened this afternoon with an online event
During today's online event, links will be provided from the exhibition and from the Racalmuto house-museum where the writer lived as a child. They will intervene Happy Cavallaro, Pippo Di Falco, Ignazio Marchese, Salvatore Picone, Gigi Restivo, Lillo Sardo and Pietro Tulumello.
Also participating will be the president of the Nello Musumeci Region and the regional councilor for tourism Manlio Messina who sponsored this event. With the collaboration of the newspaper Despite everything and the Circolo Unione di Racalmuto. The exhibition is just the beginning of a rich program of events that will be coordinated by the director Francesco Catalano. Grandson of the writer, keeper of the memory of his grandfather and profound connoisseur of his works, he will collaborate with Professor Antonio di Grado, literary director of the Foundation.
