Santa Croce sull'Arno digitizes Gustavo Giulietti's archive

The municipality of Santa Croce sull'Arno, in the Pisan area, has been selected as a winner of the PAC2021 grant from the Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea of the Italian Ministry of Culture, receiving approximately €21,000 to digitize and publish online the artistic heritage of Gustavo Giulietti (1935–2003). The project involves 127 works including drawings, engravings, lithographs, and prints, plus a selection of personal works donated to the town in 2018 by the artist's family, now part of the Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe at Villa Pacchiani. Curated by Ilaria Mariotti, director of the Centro di Attività Espressive at Villa Pacchiani, the initiative will create a web application to improve conservation, management, and public access. The public has already engaged with Giulietti through a workshop and a study day held in June and July. The web app will be accessible from Villa Pacchiani's homepage. Giulietti, born in Petralia Sottana (Palermo), trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, later becoming a professor and director. His practice spanned informal gestures in the 1950s–60s, large figures and vivid colors in the 1970s in dialogue with intellectuals like Ettore Spalletti, Pietro Santi, and Franco Solmi, frottage and artificial landscapes in the 1980s–90s, and formal dissolutions with charcoal in his final years. Despite his significance in Italian graphic art, a major retrospective at Palazzo Pitti in 2005 remains a rare highlight.