Guerrricchio Fund
Luigi Guerricchio was born on 12 October 1932 in Matera, where he died in 1996, descending from a maternal bourgeois family. Performing classical studies, he enrolled at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Florence; but, attracted to the Florentine artistic environment, leaves university studies and returns to Matera. He then moved to Naples by enrolling at the Nude School at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. At that time, the meeting was held in Portici, with Rocco Scotellaro, who will influence his ideological formation and the characterization of his artistic figure.
After living in Naples, Florence, Salzburg, Milan where he attends the Accademia di Brera, he participates in various national and international exhibitions, on which he is awarded several prizes: the lithography prize at the Venice Biennale of Venice 1964; awards for the Woodcut at the Biennale in 1968; national prize for the engraving of San Giovanni Valdarno; national prize of Posillipo painting in Naples. There are many illustrations on books, magazines, envelopes, lithographs, and sirographs.
The Biblioteca di Storia dell’Arte of Superintendence for the Historical, Artistic and Ethnoanthropological Heritage of Basilicata receives, in 2005, a donation from the heirs of the mathematician, a bibliographic fund consisting of about 1,500 art volumes (including brochures and magazines) and a private archive of the same painter. The archive includes no. 39 envelopes and n. 871 files relating to the years 1944/1998 and contains various newspaper clippings related to his exhibitions, drawing pictures, sketches of drawings of the teens, graduation thesis on Luigi Guerricchio, postcards, various invitations related to exhibitions made in Italy , catalogs of exhibitions and personal documents.