“I colori dell’ironia” – Eugenio Pieraccini

To mark the thirtieth anniversary of his death, the Forte dei Marmi Council Department for the Arts pays tribute to the artist Eugenio Pieraccini with the exhibition “I colori dell’ironia”, open every day from the 3rd to 31st of July, 2010 at the Fortino in Forte dei Marmi.

Eugenio Pieraccini was born in Viareggio on July 29th, 1922. His still lives and landscapes, but above all wet docks, highlight that dramatic power that was to become ever more refined through contact with Carlo Carrà, Alfiero Cappellini, Giovanni March, Arturo Dazzi and especially Moses Levy who always spurred him to develop satire and poetry as inseparable.
Winner of international painting awards such as the Premio Varenna and Premio Luzzara Di Cesare Zavattini, he was also a prominent gallery owner (the first in 1948 at the Capannina di Franceschi) who brought a number of important artists to Forte dei Marmi.
First gallery owner in Versilia to exhibit work by the then unknown artists Giuseppe Migneco and Salvatore Fiume.
Organizer of the “Lorenzo Viani” Art Award, in 1952, in Lido di Camaiore, and in 1962, creator of the Marguttiana in Forte dei Marmi.
Illustrator of a number of book and disc covers. Eugenio Pieraccini’s intense artistic career came to and an end with his death in August of 1980, in Pietrasanta.