In Brescia, great photographers tell the private face of Pier Paolo Pasolini

From March 31 to July 24, 2022, Mo.Ca - Center for New Cultures in Brescia presents the exhibition Pier Paolo Pasolini. To be a poet, one must have a lot of time, curated by Renato Corsini and Gerardo Martorelli.

The exhibition aims to show the public, on the occasion of the centenary of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s birth, the private face of theFriulian intellectual through sixty shots by important Italian photographers such as Gianni Berengo Gardin, Federico Garolla, Elio Ciol, Sandro Becchetti, Aldo Durazzi, Ezio Vitale, Vittorio La Verde and Rodrigo Pais.

The exhibition intends to focus on the loving relationship with his mother Susanna, an important reference in Pasolini’s life through the gaze of Vittorio La Verde, who portrayed them together in 1965 in the living room of the director’s house in Rome, on his passion for soccer, which he called “the only sacred representation of our time,” with images from the Dufoto agency during a match between former soccer players and show business personalities, in the company of a young Gianni Morandi, and on hisapproach to the world of filmmaking, with his search for the places and characters that made his directorial output unmistakable. Also, photographs with his friends, companions in private and professional life: from Bernardo Bertolucci to Ninetto Davoli, from Anna Magnani to Laura Betti, from Alberto Moravia to Maria Callas.

“To separate the figure of Pier Paolo Pasolini as a poet, storyteller, essayist and filmmaker from that of his private life is impossible,” explains curator Renato Corsini. “The exhibition dedicated to him on the centenary of his birth is proposed as a testimony of moments of private life told by authors who, even before being photographers, were his friends. The relationship with his mother, his passion for soccer, posing and relationships with friends are the pivot of the exhibition.”

"For Fondazione Brescia Musei it is a matter of great pride to produce with Ma.Co.f. an exhibition dedicated to the genius of Pier Paolo Pasolini on the centenary of his birth," says Fondazione Brescia Musei director Stefano Karadjov. “Not only because Pier Paolo Pasolini transformed the concept of culture with his incredible modernity by anticipating by at least three decades the major issues and contradictions of the culture industry, in which museums are largely enrolled, but also because Fondazione Brescia Musei animates the teeming vitality of Nuovo Eden cinema, the city’s art house dedicated to arthouse cinema and the audiovisual language and art of filmmaking. This is why Nuovo Eden is participating of the Brescia Photo Festival with the Pasolini 100 exhibition, featuring the greatest masterpieces, starting in March, and why organizing an exhibition dedicated to Pasolini’s most intimate side will allow us to create that symbolic bridge between his art and our institutional task of animators of a critical discourse on dominant cultures.”

The exhibition is part of the Brescia Photo Festival, promoted by the Municipality of Brescia and Fondazione Brescia Musei, in collaboration with Ma.Co.f - Center of Italian Photography, which for its fifth edition will delve into The Forms of the Portrait in World Photography.

As already mentioned, at the Nuovo Eden cinema is presented the Pasolini 100 review, from March 16, with a selection of his masterpieces in restored version, in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna. Nine appointments, from March to June, and three scheduled for the fall season, to cover the entire filmography of the poet and director on the big screen.

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Image: Vittorio La Verde, Pier Paolo Pasolini with his mother Susanna Colussi, in the house on Via Eufrate 9 in Rome (1965)

In Brescia, great photographers tell the private face of Pier Paolo Pasolini

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