At Palazzo Ducale in Genoa, the whole world of Hugo Pratt on display with more than 200 original works

From October 14, 2021 to March 20, 2022, the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa’s Sottoporticato will host the exhibition Hugo Pratt. From Genoa to the South Seas. On display are more than two hundred original pieces, including plates and watercolors, created by Hugo Pratt, also dating back to the rarer Argentine period; accompanying it all is an original multivision to immerse oneself in the stories of the famous adventurer.

It was in Genoa that Corto Maltese, his most famous character, was born, and it is from here that he resumes his journey to the South Seas. It was July 1, 1967 when a new comic book magazine, Sgt. Kirk, came out on newsstands, bringing together some of the finest strips created by Hugo Pratt during his Argentine period. The magazine’s editor was Florenzo Ivaldi, a Genoese with a great admiration for Pratt, and in addition to the story published in Sgt. Kirk, Ivaldi in 1967 had also chosen to publish another unpublished adventure, A Ballad of the Salty Sea, starring Corto Maltese.

The exhibition presents the entire Prattian world of rebels and revolutionaries, seductive women, Indians, Venice, the woods and prairies of Wheeling and Ticonderoga. All the literary references that were part of his upbringing, such as Kenneth Roberts, Fenimore Cooper and James Olivier Curwood and the Indians of the American Northeast of the 18th century, underlie his imagery. There is the Africa of The Desert Scorpions, In a Distant Sky, Baldwin 622 as well as the famous episodes of Ethiopics starring Corto Maltese. There is Venice, also present in the stories far from the lagoon, and Argentina, where Pratt definitively established himself as an author and illustrator. Thanks to Argentine collectors also, the exhibition catalog features a story previously unpublished for Europe, The Justice of Wahte, published by Super Misterix in 1955.

The exhibition is promoted and organized by Fondazione Palazzo Ducale per la Cultura and CMS.Cultura in collaboration with CONG - Hugo Pratt Art Properties and curated by Patrizia Zanotti, director of CONG and responsible for Pratt’s publishing work.

For info: mostrapratt.it

Hours: Monday from 2 to 7 p.m.; Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Friday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Tickets: Full 14 euros, reduced 12 euros. Reduced youth 5 euros (iI Monday afternoon up to 27 years of age), reduced children 5 euros (children aged 6-13 years).

At Palazzo Ducale in Genoa, the whole world of Hugo Pratt on display with more than 200 original works

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