An exhibition in Umbria featuring more than 80 works by Dario Fo, including drawings and works on canvas and board

From May 30, 2021 to January 9, 2022, the exhibition Dipingere Movimento. The Painting of Dario Fo, curated by Mattea Fo and Stefano Bertea, which features 82 works created by Dario Fo (Sangiano, 1926 - Milan, 2016) from 1940 to 2016. Not everyone knows that Dario Fo, in addition to being a great playwright (an activity thanks to which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997, the last Italian to do so) was also a respectable painter.

The exhibition displays pencils, watercolors, sketches on cardboard, large works on canvas or wooden panels, as well as playbills from theRame Fo Archive, reproductions of period photos’period and documents, stage costumes designed by Dario Fo and then made by Sartoria Pia Rame can be admired every day from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. in the exhibition spaces of the Umbrian village, brought back to life thanks to careful restoration work, as part of the Un Castello all’Orizzonte event.

The exhibition, organized and set up by C.T.F.R. srl - Compagnia Teatrale Fo Rame under the patronage of the Fondazione Dario Fo e Franca Rame is in collaboration with Castello di Postignano Servizi, under the patronage of the Region of Umbria, the Province of Perugia and the Municipality of Sellano, is open free of charge, in accordance with the security arrangements provided for by current regulations.

The exhibition also aims to be an opportunity to discover Postignano Castle, in the municipality of Sellano (PG), the medieval village in the heart of the Valnerina valley in Umbria, a few kilometers from Spoleto, which has been brought back to life thanks to the careful restoration by architects Gennaro Matacena and Matteo Scaramella, defined by Italia Nostra as an “exemplary restoration” and for which the Unesco Europe Club has issued the Certificate of Merit for the preservation and protection of the landscape and environment. It has been listed among the “Most Beautiful Villages in Italy,” defined by the American architect Norman F. Carver Jr. as “the archetype of Italian hillside villages” with its characteristic tower-houses jutting out one over the other. In the hamlet coexist residence, an Albergo Diffuso with its services and excellent food and wine offerings at the La Casa Rosa restaurant.

For all information you can visit the official website of Postignano Castle.

An exhibition in Umbria featuring more than 80 works by Dario Fo, including drawings and works on canvas and board

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