Santa Giulia Museum continues with contemporary art: illustrations by Lorenzo Mattotti

From September 14, 2023 to January 28, 2024, the Santa Giulia Museum in Brescia will host a major exhibition dedicated to illustrator, cartoonist, artist, and filmmaker Lorenzo Mattotti. Curated by Melania Gazzotti and promoted by the Municipality of Brescia and Fondazione Brescia Musei, the exhibition Lorenzo Mattotti. Stories, Rhythms, Movements, presents for the first time the three worlds that have most influenced his work, namely music, cinema and dance, to explore his production from new perspectives.

The exhibition path starts by analyzing Mattotti’s intense and vital relationship with music, evidenced by two important nuclei of works: the illustrations collected in Lou Reed’s The Raven (2011) and the large ink plates drawn for the staging of Engelbert Humperdinck’sHänsel und Gretel (2009) at the Paris Opera.

The section devoted to cinema, along with a series of works related to the interludes for the three episodes of the film Eros by Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh and Wong Kar-wai, includes excerpts from his many animations with related preparatory drawings. A focus is also devoted to his famous feature film The Famous Invasion of the Bears in Sicily (2019), based on Dino Buzzati’s novel of the same name.

Finally, to tell the story of Mattotti’s relationship with the world of dance, some of the drawings collected in the book Carneval (2005), born from the artist’s immersive experience at the carnival in Rio de Janeiro, and three large unpublished canvases, painted especially for the Brescia exhibition and belonging to a cycle of works on collective dances, will be exhibited.

The exhibition dedicated to the work of contemporary artist Lorenzo Mattotti is part of the path of enhancing Brescia’s cultural heritage through contemporary art that the Foundation has undertaken with the project Archaeological Stages, which has featured Emilio Isgrò and Fabrizio Plessi, among others, in recent years.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalog published by Skira.

Image: Lorenzo Mattotti, Drawing for the cover of René Aubry’s Play Time CD (2010; pencils and pastels on paper, 50 x 33 cm; Collection of the artist)

Santa Giulia Museum continues with contemporary art: illustrations by Lorenzo Mattotti

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