At the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome a major exhibition on Pasolini the painter, 100 years after his birth

On the occasion of the centenary of his birth, the Galleria d’arte Moderna in Rome will host the exhibition Pasolini pittore, curated by Graziella Chiarcossi, Silvana Cirillo, Claudio Crescentini and Federica Pirani, from October 14, 2022 to April 16, 2023. A major exhibition that aims to highlight the painting skills of Pier Paolo Pasolini by contextualizing them in the history of twentieth-century art.

Promoted by Roma Culture, Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali, Università la Sapienza di Roma, Gabinetto Scientifico Letterario G.P. Vieusseux of Florence, Centro Studi Pier Paolo Pasolini of Casarsa della Delizia and Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, with the organization of Zètema Progetto Cultura, the exhibition will present to the public about two hundred works mostly coming from the Gabinetto Scientifico Letterario G.P. Vieusseux in Florence, which preserves the most important collection of the writer and director’s pictorial works: it will start from his pictorial beginnings, which coincide with his first poetic proofs in Friulian, and will continue with paintings and drawings that intend to reconstruct his artistic path, thanks also to the exhibition of an important nucleus of works from the early 1940s made in Casarsa della Delizia. Portraits, still lifes and landscapes from the intimate and familiar character to the series of young boys portrayed sitting, lying down or with flowers that document the young Pasolini’s artistic experimentation.

A special focus will be devoted to the Bolognese creative environment of Il Setaccio, the monthly magazine of the Gioventù Italiana del Littorio (November 1942 and May 1943), in particular on the drawings by Pasolini and Fabio Mauri, made for the magazine. Still in Bologna, a strong interest arose around the pivotal figure of Roberto Longhi, from whom the writer asked for a dissertation focusing on 20th-century Italian painting, from Carlo Carrà to Giorgio Morandi and Filippo de Pisis, artists he himself loved.

From the 1950s onward, his arrival in Rome, writing and film became for Pasolini the time for an increasingly fervent melting pot of artistic and creative experiences that would only partly distance him from painting as a practice but not as a conceptual progress and technical interest.

There will then be portraits of Ninetto Davoli, Maria Callas, Laura Betti, Andrea Zanzotto, and the series of drawings dedicated to Longhi. All works date from the 1950s-1970s.

A series of cultural meetings, readings and screenings on the issues addressed will be organized during the period of the exhibition: they will be held in various venues, including the Gallery of Modern Art, La Sapienza University of Rome and others to be defined. In this context, the University will also organize a major conference on the relationship between writing, painting and cinema.

At the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome a major exhibition on Pasolini the painter, 100 years after his birth

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