The 'Cultural Gymnasium' of Pompeii at the second appointment curated by Gennaro Carillo entitled "The Ghost of the Ancient. Dialogues on the Classical Tradition".
September 8 – Massimo Fusillo presents “Greece according to Pasolini”
New appointment at the Pompeii Excavations with the “Cultural Gym” in the garden of the Palestra Grande. The initiative is part of the Campania by Night program, a series of cultural and entertainment events promoted by the Campania Region through Scabec, a regional company for the enhancement of cultural heritage. A true cultural gym where you can train your mind and spirit through the beauty and history of Pompeii, but also through special meetings with writers and artists.
After the successful presentation of the book “La Fortuna” by the writer Valeria Parella held last July, the section of the review “il Fantasma dell'antico. Dialogues on the classical tradition”, project, curatorship and texts by Gennaro Carillo, continues with 4 appointments in the month of September.
The first meeting is scheduled for September 8th at 19,00:XNUMX pm with Massimo Fusillo who presents “Greece according to Pasolini”.
“Pasolini’s Greece would be unthinkable without Burckhardt and Nietzsche,” underlines the curator of the exhibition Gennaro Carillo, “without the reversal of that idealized, marble image of the ancient accredited by classicism, which makes Canova, in the opinion of Roberto Longhi (beloved by PPP), a “stillborn sculptor.” It is Medea’s cauldron, to quote Manganelli, which instead attracts Pasolini, a barbaric, feral, archaic Greece, in which the savage – the ungrammatical – looms and ultimately predominates over the Apollonian completeness of the forms.
Massimo Fusillo teaches Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of L’Aquila, where he is also the coordinator of the PhD in Literature, Arts, Media. Greece according to Pasolini. Myth and Cinema was published this year in a new edition by Carocci”.
Gennaro Carillo, curator of the project for this section of the review, is a full professor of History of Political Thought in the Department of Humanities at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples, where he also teaches History of Philosophy and Theoretical Philosophy. At the Department of Architecture at Federico II, he teaches Philosophies of the Polis. He has written on Vico, Greek tragedians and comedians, ancient historiography, Antiphon, Plato, Balzac, Simone Weil, and has long been involved in modern and contemporary rewritings of the myth of Diana and Actaeon. Co-artistic director of Salerno Letteratura, he is the curator of Gli Ozi di Ercole at the Parco Archeologico di Ercolano and of Fuoriclassico. The ambiguous contemporaneity of the ancient at the MANN in Naples.
At the end of the meeting it will be possible to take a guided tour of the exhibition “Art and sensuality in the houses of Pompeii”, set up inside the Palestra Grande and curated by the Director Gabriel Zuchtriegel and by the archaeologist Maria Luisa Catoni, professor at IMT Alti Studi Lucca, who explains the omnipresence of sensual images in the daily life of the ancient city.
Admission to the event and the visit to the exhibition “Art and sensuality in the houses of Pompeii” is free, subject to availability. Reservations recommended on www.ticketone.it (reservation fee €1.50, purchasing a free ticket).
For information on all appointments:
Pompeii Information Office +39 081 8575347
www.pompeiisites.org | www.scabec.it
Article published on 1 September 2022 - 13:10
