Dante exhibition in Forli (which closes with 40,000 visitors) becomes a film

It closed yesterday with 40,000 visitors in two months the great exhibition Dante. The Vision of Art organized at the San Domenico Museums in Forlì(here is our review), and not only: soon it will also become a film. In fact, the exhibition, organized by the Fondazione Cassa dei Risparmi di Forlì together with the Uffizi Galleries to narrate, will be transformed into an art documentary that will be broadcast starting in September. It will be made as a virtual guided and commented tour in the mammoth exhibition that has seen more than 300 works gathered in Romagna. The aim is to make the exhibition available to the general public, thinking in particular of those who were unable to visit it live, starting with schools and students, who have been severely penalized in their activities by the pandemic.

The project, the brainchild of Eike Schmidt, director of the Uffizi Galleries, and Gianfranco Brunelli, vice-president of the Fondazione Cassa dei Risparmi di Forlì and director of the major exhibitions it organizes, was assisted by Professor Antonio Paolucci and Professor Fernando Mazzocca, with a numerous and prestigious scientific committee. The choice of Forlì as the setting for the exhibition aimed to reaffirm the centrality of Forlì and its territory in Dante’s historical-existential journey. Not, therefore, a city of passage, Forlì, but a Dantean city. “We bravely challenged the unimaginable,” declares Gianfranco Brunelli, “to be able to realize and open an exhibition of this size and quality. The scientific project was fully realized. The works all present. The Forlì exhibition on Dante has also given us back a vision of normality, which we would like to hasten.”

“This exhibition,” Schmidt comments, “is a great success, starting from the scientific point of view. This is documented by the catalog itself: for generations to come, a handbook for the university but also for middle and high schools. This exhibition is really a milestone, illustrating not only all of Dante, his work, but the immense cultural influence he exerted from his time until the 1900s. We can say that Dante. The Vision of Art is comparable in breadth to the exhibition on Raphael held last year by the Uffizi with the Scuderie del Quirinale. But at the same time it is also a courageous exhibition, organized at the height of the pandemic: it will remain a beacon in the years to come, and this is an achievement that will bring visitors to Forlì and Romagna for years to come. This was a major European event: we had reviews of this exhibition in all the major foreign newspapers. And thanks to this exhibition, in Forlì, symbolically halfway between Florence and Ravenna, Dante has been celebrated as a national and international figure. The Uffizi will continue the celebration of Dante again this summer with the Uffizi’s diffuse exhibitions, in Poppi where he wrote part of the Divine Comedy, and in San Godenzo, the last Tuscan place where the supreme poet paused before leaving his homeland forever to escape the death sentence hanging over his head. With last night’s great victory, Italy has taken on the role of fighting and speaking for the whole of Europe, and Dante is the right character to do so on a cultural level, not least because no other character has been as important in other European languages and literatures as the Supreme Poet.”

Dante exhibition in Forli (which closes with 40,000 visitors) becomes a film

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