Pier Paolo Pasolini. Tutto È Santo. Il Corpo Politico
- When: November 16, 2022 - March 12, 2023
- this event is ended
- Place: Roma, MAXXI - Museo Nazionale delle arti del XXI Secolo
- Region: Lazio
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On the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Pier Paolo Pasolini (Bologna, 5
March 1922 - Rome, November 2, 1975), the MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts, the Palaexpo Special Company of Rome and the National Galleries of Ancient Art celebrate the figure of the poet with a large exhibition project coordinated and shared in their respective locations museums.
The choice of the title, Pier Paolo Pasolini. Everything is holy, is inspired by the phrase pronounced by the wise Chiron in the film Medea (1969), and evokes the mysterious sacredness of the world of the underclass, archaic and religious, in stark conflict with the heroes of a rational, secular and bourgeois world.
Each museum has declined the title-theme by deepening it according to different paths: the poetic body at the Palaexpo, the seer body at Palazzo Barberini and the political body at the MAXXI, where the voices of 19 contemporary artists evoke the political commitment of Pasolini, a prophet to whom many generations have looked to trace the guidelines of their research.
The exhibition Pier Paolo Pasolini, Everything is holy. The political body, at MAXXI from 16 November 2022 to 12 March 2023, curated by Hou Hanru, Bartolomeo Pietromarchi and Giulia Ferracci, sponsor Intesa Sanpaolo, is conceived as a close dialogue between the works of 19 artists both contemporary with Pasolini (Mino Maccari, Fabio Mauri, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali) and of more recent generations, for which Pasolini is still an essential reference today (Elisabetta Benassi, Marzia Migliora, Sammy Baloji, Claire Fontaine, Francesco Vezzoli). Over 200 documents on display including articles and original typescripts, audio and video interviews, his personal agenda, photographs including the extraordinary and intense portraits of Dino Pedriali, all dating back to his last period of activity.
In particular, attention is paid to 1975, the year in which Pasolini was particularly active: conferences, interviews, television appearances, articles in the most important and authoritative newspapers and magazines of the time (including Il Corriere della Sera, Il Mondo, Epoca , La Stampa Tuttolibri, the periodicals Tempo and Gente and many others) all characterized by his usual polemical charge and provocative accusation. His interventions touch on burning and current issues such as abortion, homosexuality, abuses of power, the destruction of Italian tradition and identity, the effect of the unchallenged affirmation of mass culture.
In the exhibition itinerary also the voice of the cousin and philologist Graziella Chiarcossi who in eight audio points accompanies the visitor in a profound and authentic reading of the poet.
Title: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Tutto È Santo. Il Corpo Politico
Opening: November 16, 2022
Ending: March 12, 2023
Organization: MAXXI - Museo Nazionale delle arti del XXI Secolo
Curator: Hou Hanru, Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, Giulia Ferracci
Place: Roma, MAXXI - Museo Nazionale delle arti del XXI Secolo
Address: Via Guido Reni, 4a - 00196 Roma
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