Set up at the Royal Palace, in Naples, from 7 July to 27 August.
"Pasolini was probably an intellectual who lived in a more profound, acute and lucid way the contradiction that opened between the human and modernity. It will be nice to remember Pasolini for having introduced a principle of truth into the public and intellectual life of our country". This was said by the president of the Regional Council of Campania, Vincenzo De Luca, presenting today in the council hall the exhibition 'Host. Pier Paolo Pasolini” which will be set up in the Palatine Chapel of the Royal Palace in Naples from 7 July to 27 August.
These are 9 sculptures and 9 paintings that were made by the artist Nicola Verlato. The exhibition was presented by the president of the MetaMorfosi association, Pietro Folema and one of the curators, Lorenzo Canova.
The other curator is the current Undersecretary of Culture, Vittorio Sgarbi, whose presence had been announced in Naples. The exhibition arrives in Naples after a first exhibition at the Baths of Diocletian in Rome and at the national headquarters in Matera, on the occasion of the celebrations for the centenary of Pasolini's birth.
But an exhibition in Naples could not be missed precisely because of the special bond, as Folena remarked, that existed between Pasolini and the city of Naples and the Neapolitans. Pasolini, De Luca said again, “he spoke a language of truth. Today he would be in his element to explain how much fiction and charlatanism there is in some apparently left-wing but essentially petty bourgeois and vulgar petitions. He denounced the elements of mystification present in that political tradition, when he found more humanity in the policemen who came from the South than in the rich boys who were full-time protesters”.
Article published on 3 July 2023 - 16:20
