He had Giotto and Pontormo in his eyes. Pasolini director and painting
Professor Riccio, next Thursday will there be a further event – a sort of appendix – still linked to the Pasolini Festival “one day in autumn (Siena 7-24 November)?”
“Yup. The appointment of Thursday 15 December he is fully enrolled in the Festival that you mentioned. On the other hand, the complexity of the human and artistic figure of Pier Paolo Pasolini is such and so great that for every aspect beyond that there is another that remains excluded”
“Thursday’s meeting focuses on Pasolini’s pictorial passion?”.
“Yup. Pasolini was not only a talented painter, but also a great lover of art history, so much so that at first he had thought of graduating in this discipline. Giotto, Masaccio, the sixteenth-century mannerists are the artists that Pasolini loved most, starting as early as his university years, where in Bologna he was able to follow the masterful courses of Roberto Longhi “.
“On Thursday, Luca Verdone will talk about Pasolini at the Giuliano Briganti Library”.
“Yes, and for me it is a great honor. We will talk about the presence of the great masters of Italian painting in Pasolini’s films, also trying to clarify the reasons for Pasolini’s conversion to cinema, in 1961, when he was by then a much appreciated writer and poet “
“One last question, Professor. You were the Artistic Director of the Festival “one day in autumn”. What is the advisory?
«It went beyond any rosiest forecast that commissioner Pasquale Colella and I could have made on the eve. The success is both in the quality of the conferences, the concerts, the one-act play “Come tanti fili d’erba”, with the Friulian actress Tiziana Bagatella, and in the numbers.. the total attendance was 689: 285 at the cinema, 254 in the Library, 150 at concerts. Not only have we introduced the public, which included many young people, to the work and personality of Pasolini, but we have introduced them to splendid environments, such as the historic room of the Biblioteca degli Intronati and the Sala Sant’Ansano of the Santa Maria della Ladder . And the Briganti Library is no different.