From Pimpa to Cipputi: Altan stars in a major exhibition at MAXXI in Rome

Altan is the protagonist of a major exhibition at MAXXI, co-produced with Fondazione Solares and Franco Cosimo Panini Editore, curated by Anne Palopoli and Luca Raffaelli. Entitled Altan. Pimpa, Cipputi and Other Thinkers, the exhibition, scheduled from October 23, 2019 to January 12, 2020, is a comprehensive reconnaissance to recount, in an articulated path, all of his work among original drawings, posters, illustrations, paintings, sketches, plates, books and films.

Altan’s is a world in which doubt is revealed as the only possible great certainty, in which the great myths of history are overturned and humanity tries to float in the messy sea of life. We are saved by a little dog who, strong in her desire for knowledge, smiles in the face of the wonders of the universe.

Altan’s characters are all free thinkers, so free that they can confess to themselves and to the world even their desire for self-destruction. But their thinking is always a revelation; it is what we were going to say, what was on the tip of our tongues. Altan reveals it to us with surprising lucidity. As if he is always one step ahead of us.

Here at last is the complete exhibition of an author capable of moving nimbly between drawings devoted to childhood and adventure comics, between illustrated novels and animated films, between cartoons and screenplays.

A catalog published by Franco Cosimo Panini accompanies the exhibition.

For all information you can visit the official MAXXI website.

Ph. credit: Altan, Quipos, Franco Cosimo Panini Editore

From Pimpa to Cipputi: Altan stars in a major exhibition at MAXXI in Rome

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