The photographic exhibition in Genoa on Pier Paolo Pasolini
A century after the birth of the critic, novelist, poet, thinker and filmmaker, the exhibition “Pier Paolo Pasolini. I do not let myself be moved by the photographs ”at the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa
The exhibition Pier Paolo Pasolini. I do not let myself be moved by photographs, through a selection of 260 photographic shots and historical documents, it aims to bring the new generations closer to the figure of one of the most brilliant and complete thinkers of the twentieth century. Just behind the centenary of the birth of Pier Paolo Pasolini (in 1922), the exhibition a Palazzo Ducale in Genoa, which will be open until March 13, 2022, portrays a very large selection of photographs, in particular. Because? The goal is to use the fabric sewn by the faces of the critic, only novelist, filmmaker, attentive investigator of the Italian and non-Italian political, social, cultural reality, to talk about his studies and interests.
THE EXHIBITION ON PIER PAOLO PASOLINI IN GENOA
By making use of the empathic element and his magnetic gaze, curiosity and comparison with the heterogeneous intellectual legacy are desired. “Metaphorically, his skin becomes a privileged space to understand, with closeness, the professional path of that elusive man called Pier Paolo Pasolini “, explains the curator Marco Minuz. At the root of the exhibition operation there is the observation that he is one of the most photographed public figures of his time, despite the ambivalent relationship with the photographic medium: “all photos are enough to take a look. I never observe them more than a moment. In an instant I see everything “, Pasolini argued. The feeling with the moving image was instead completely different: “nothing like making a film forces you to look at things “ and his answers Accattone, Mamma Roma, The Gospel According to Matthew, Oedipus the King, Theorem, Porcile, Medea, The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales, The flower of a thousand and one nights, Salò or the 120 days of Sodom they are giants difficult to forget, sometimes to digest. Only Pasolini was able to remove the heavy veil of a stereotyped vision to show the naked truth, the most sincere and raw, also through cinematographic fiction, literature and mythology.
THE PASOLINI EXHIBITION IN GENOA: INVOLVED ARCHIVES AND EXHIBITION ROUTE
The exhibition is produced by Suaze and Palazzo Ducale, with the collaboration of the Pier Paolo Pasolini Study Center of Casarsa della Delezia. The itinerary presents itself without a defined chronological scan, in such a way as to encourage the visitor to follow his own inclinations, favoring associations and suggesting his “vastness of thought”. The thematic sections are: the city of Rome, the boys of the suburbs, the concept of the body, the passion for football, the acquaintances, the public commitment, the figure of the mother, the Roman houses in which he lived, the photographic portraits , a recurring object, the iconography of Christ, the experience of cinema, the early years, the funeral celebrations in Rome and Casarsa della Delizia. There are over fifty photographers and archives involved in this project, including: Letizia Battaglia, Carlo Bavagnoli, Elisabetta Catalano, Mimmo Cattarinich, Diovio Cavicchioli, Elio Ciol, Mario Dondero, Gabriella Drudi Scialoja, Aldo Durazzi, Claudio Ernè, Toti Scialoja, Federico Garolla, Giovanni Giovannetti, Vittorio La Verde, Massimo Listri, Cecilia Mangini, Nino Miglior, Domenico Notarangelo, Angelo Novi, Salvatore Tomarchio, Mario Tursi, Roberto Villa and Italo Zannier. If it is true that photography cannot give us back an individual, giving us only his image, it is nevertheless capable – through what Roland Barthes defined point “The fatality that stings the observer, to the point of wounding him” – of arousing in us an emotional and intellectual start. Thus Pier Paolo Pasolini, thanks to his words, his films, but the photographs themselves, manages to break through the common imagination, instilling in people the unstoppable desire to know reality and apply individual critical thinking to it.
– Giorgia Basili
Pier Paolo Pasolini. I am not moved by photographs
Palazzo Ducale in Genoa
Loggia degli Abati
November 30, 2021 – March 13, 2022
Curated by Roberto Carnero and Marco Minuz
www.palazzoducale.genova.it