Procida pays homage to Troisi. The bicycle from Il postino returns for exhibition curated by the great actor's grandson

Twenty-eight years after the shooting of Il Postino, an Oscar-winning film, the bicycle ridden by Massimo Troisi in his last performance returns to Procida for an exhibition dedicated to him.

In fact, the Officine dei Misteri of the Palazzo d’Avalos Monumental Complex is hosting until January 6, 2023 the exhibition Il Postino dietro le quinte. The Faces of Massimo Troisi, a contemporary art group showcasing sixty-six works created by forty-nine established and young talented artists. Also on display is a work by Troisi himself, dated 1992, from which the exhibition path originated.

“It all started from that abstract work by Massimo, the first one I collected starting in 1996,” said Stefano Veneruso, Troisi’s nephew and curator of the exhibition. “From there came works by people who spontaneously gave them to me, until there was a magnificent work by the very great Armando De Stefano, made for a lucky compact disc of poems by Paolo Neruda read by great artists, including Arbore, Foa, Amendola and many others. And then there is the work of works, which is the bicycle of Il Postino.”

Welcoming the public at the beginning of the exhibition is precisely the famous bicycle and a photo of Troisi from the famous film.

“I am bound to this island by a very strong memory, painful even,” Veneruso continued, “because Massimo at the time of filming was not well. But he, with his stubbornness and obstinacy, wanted to carry out the film. He told my mother, ’’O voglio firnì co’ ’o core mio.’’ He didn’t give his life for this film, but in my opinion he thought somehow he could change the world, because at that time making a film about poetry was difficult, you wondered who could go and see it. Instead, it was a worldwide success, awarded an Oscar. The exhibition is a narrative, a telling of Massimo through excerpts of his memorable interviews, but above all the works of 49 artists: I also asked each one to tell in a few lines about ’their’ Massimo; so, in addition to the work, there is also the artist’s thought.”

“Scabec is happy and honored and to have organized this exhibition,” said Pantaleone Annunziata, Sole Administrator of Scabec. “When Il Postino came out in theaters, I remember studying Philosophy in college and came across this definition: ’both animals and angels do not laugh, but only man laughs. So the trace of the human is in laughter, in tragic laughter’. Troisi represents (unfortunately only symbolically today) and has represented the trace of the human. Troisi belongs to us: when a symbol can express its full force as he did, it belongs to each of us.”

The works on display were created by Yolanda Antal, Alessandro Avolio, Maria Luisa Bertoni, Filippo Bragatt, Totò Calì, Sebastiano Cannarella, Benjamin Carminio, Luca Celletti, Monica Conforti, Marina Corso, Ornella De Rosa, Armando De Stefano, Prisco De Vivo, Stefano Di Loreto, Mattia Di Mattia, Carlo Draoli, Lello Esposito, Filippo Farruggia, Maria Ferrara, Alba Folcio, Margaretha Gubernale, Miriana Lallo, Lady Be, Gianna Liani, Gorizio Lo Mastro, Federica Marin, Vincenzo Mollica, Marco Monopoli, Antonio Murgia, Loria Orsato, Gennaro Percopo, Vincenzo Pinto, Amedeo Punelli, Rancho (pseudonym of Ilario Ranucci), Rolando Rovati, Cristiano Sagramola, Omar Sandrini, Massimiliano Sbrescia, Luciano Simeoli, Stefano Solimani, Pietro Spadafina, Carlo Szeya, Gabriella Tolli, Antonio Toma, Massimo Troisi, Enrico Tubertini, Nicoletta Valler, Nicole Veneruso, Walton Zed.

Procida pays homage to Troisi. The bicycle from Il postino returns for exhibition curated by the great actor's grandson

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