Edited by Giovanna Mori, with Carlo Catturini and Ilaria Torelli

The exhibition  «And Sciascia, what does he say?» Tribute to Leonardo Sciascia and Mino Maccari, 30 years after their death, is part of the cycle The Passions of Sciascia and was inaugurated on the occasion of the Leonardo Sciascia Amateur D'estampes Prize.
The prize, created in 1998 by Francesco Izzo and Gian Franco Grechi and promoted by the Friends of Leonardo Sciascia association together with the Civic Collection of Prints "A. Bertarelli", is an international biennial competition established to commemorate the attention given by the writer Leonardo Sciascia to original art engravings.
On February 7th, the award ceremony for the 3 finalist works and the 3 special mentions of the jury took place at the Sala della Balla of the Sforza Castle in Milan:
1st prize: Stefano Luciano, Furbizia che genera sgarbo, 2017; 2nd prize: Sayuri Nishimura, Stepness of Daying, 2017; 3rd prize: Elisabetta Diamanti, Animus Re - Signum, 2017;
3 special mentions of the jury ex aequo: Devorah Boxer, Retenue II, 2012; Mehdi Darvishi, The end of the game, 2017; Gérard Diaz, Le passage, 2017.
 
For this edition, twenty-nine works were presented, created by artists from fifteen countries. All engravings are exhibited from February 9th to February 29th, 2019, at the new exhibition spaces of the Federica Galli Foundation, a Lombard artist who was a member of the Sciascia Prize Jury and was particularly appreciated by Leonardo Sciascia. All the works will eventually become part of the heritage of the Civic Collection of Prints "A. Bertarelli", of which the Friends of Sciascia have become regular donors over time, earning the recognition of Benefactor of the city of Milan since 2004.
 
The exhibition is dedicated to the intense friendship between the Sicilian writer and the Tuscan artist and is organized by the Municipality of Milan (Culture Department - Soprintendenza Castello, Archaeological Museums and Historical Museums) - Collection of Prints "A. Bertarelli" in collaboration with the Friends of Leonardo Sciascia Association.
The exhibition gathers drawings, engravings, photographs, books, magazines, diary pages, as well as letters and other unpublished, rare, and scattered documents, for the first time arranged in a path that helps to reconstruct, thirty years after their passing, the friendship between two heretical and eccentric storytellers, each in their own way, of our twentieth century: Mino Maccari (Siena 1898 - Rome 1989) and Leonardo Sciascia (Racalmuto 1921 - Palermo 1989). The exhibition is completed by a selection of sixteen works by Maccari present at the Collection, purchased by the Municipality of Milan between 1950 and 1961, which aim to offer a significant sample of the vast graphic production of the artist, carried out in the years immediately before the birth of the friendship between Maccari and Sciascia. The exhibition is accompanied by the booklet-catalog «And Sciascia, what does he say?». The catalog is edited by Francesco Izzo for the Friends of Sciascia (Leo S. Olschki, 2019, series "Smara",1) with writings by Leonardo Sciascia and Mino Maccari, and contributions by Luigi Cavallo, Fortunato Grosso, Francesco Izzo, Giovanna Mori, Marco Vallora. The catalog will be available for purchase.