The exhibition on Pasolini

Until 2 October “Conscious Heart” at Palazzo Merulana, hosts original tables, sketches and unpublished prints of prestigious Ninth Art signatures dedicated to Pasolini

Poet, screenwriter, actor, director, writer, painter, novelist and playwright: Pier Paolo Pasolini he left an important legacy to artists and intellectuals who celebrated, studied and remembered him. Among these are also the pencils of Davide Toffolo, Giuseppe Palumbo, Gianluca Maconi and Elettra Stamboulis and Gianluca Costantini, authors of Pasolini, Pasolini 1964, The Pasolini Crime and Pasolini’s Secret Diary. The 4 graphic novels, released in the last 10 years, tell the protagonist under different interpretations: tender or raw, dreamlike or explicit, furious or spiritual, always exciting.

Original plates, cover illustrations, preparatory sketches, drawings and unpublished prints (granted exclusively) of these comic books are on display in Rome, at Palazzo Merulana, until 2 October. The exhibition set up on the occasion of the centenary of his birth, entitled ‘Conscious heart – Pier Paolo Pasolini told in the Comics’, is curated by Stefano Piccoli, produced by ARF! Festival, in collaboration with Coopculture, with the support of the Lazio Region, ABC Project, ATCL, La Città Incantata.

The extraordinary anthology through the language of comics traces the life and works of the great artist. On show 80 works from graphic novels, plus some short stories by Massimo Giacon and Danilo Maramotti and a series of illustrations and portraits by Milo Manara, Andrea Serio, Francesco Ripoli, Leila Mazzocchi and Alice Iuri. The care of the texts of the whole exhibition is instead entrusted to the pen of the same Elettra Stamboulis.

A review of weekly appointments is scheduled for the entire exhibition period, every Thursday afternoon, with a selection of the authors on display who will meet the public in presence.

“With Conscious Heart we have tried to collect in an anthological way all those comic books that Pasolini has told in the last 10 years – he explains Stefano Piccoli, curator of the exhibition and director of ARF! – Comics are a language that has a strength and immediacy that other media often do not have. We think above all of the very young audience who knows little or nothing about Pasolini, discovering this controversial character for example with an entire black and white film would perhaps be repulsive for them. Here then is that this language, more direct and perhaps more precisely because perhaps they read manga or Zerocalcare, can make known the points of view and moments in the life of this great intellectual “.

“After the success of ‘Women In Comics’ – she declares Letizia Casuccio, director of Coopculture- with ‘Conscious Heart. Pier Paolo Pasolini told in comics’ is the second time that CoopCulture has wanted to host at Palazzo Merulana, collaborating in its realization, an exhibition focused on comics, or on an art form that, with its expressive, visual and verbal language, manages to narrating the human condition with great intensity and above all in a direct way, without mediation. Just as Pier Paolo Pasolini did in every expression of his art, whose cultural heritage we celebrate with this exhibition on the anniversary of his birth. The Palazzo Merulana project is based on an intrinsic mixture of historical memory and contemporary representation, in the different facets and expressions that the term ‘culture’ embraces and which makes us choose to welcome productions that are always of great artistic and cultural value but also very different between They. As many as there are many audiences who experience the Palace every day, starting with the many young students who visit it and who study and meet here. Here, with the language of comics we also want to reach this type of public, making it a participant and protagonist of our museum, which confirms itself as a cultural square, a place of aggregation for everyone “.

OPENING DAYS AND HOURS

‘Conscious heart – Pier Paolo Pasolini told in the Comics’ can be visited from Wednesday to Sunday, from 12.00 to 20.00. Palazzo Merulana is in via Merulana, 121. The cost of the full ticket is 10 euros, while the reduced one has a cost of 8 euros.

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