On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s birth, the Instituto Italiano de Cultura in Madrid presents from 17 June to 10 September the project Pasolini. Hipótesis de figuración, an Italian-Spanish exhibition in which artists from the two countries ideally dialogue with each other around the profound and enigmatic figure of the Italian writer and film director.
Over the years, this Institute has dedicated many initiatives to the figure of the great intellectual; with this exhibition, it has asked itself about the Pasolini of today, to find together an answer to the question of the extent to which Pasolini’s words, his work, his imaginary – 100 years after his birth and 47 years after his death – are still capable today of impressing and inspiring intellectuals, artists and ordinary people.
With this interpretative key, Marco Delogu, together with Andrea Cortellessa and Silvia De Laude, has elaborated a journey built around Pasolini’s themes such as locations, self-representations, eternal fascism, intermediate lands and peripheries, where the traces of the great intellectual are glimpsed and deciphered through the “lenses” of nine extraordinary contemporary artists: Jordi Barreras, Elisabetta Benassi, Jacopo Benassi, Marco Delogu, Jorge Fuembuena, Alberto García Alix, Pino Musi, Sabrina Ragucci and Giovanna Silva.
