Benevento, a meeting and an exhibition to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Pier Paolo Pasolini
Alessandro Rillo's exhibition, inspired by Pasolini's work
Benevento, an exhibition to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Pier Paolo Pasolini.
On Thursday 21 April at 17pm, on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Pier Paolo Pasolini, the meeting entitled "The Pasolini trial" will be held in the Sala Antico Teatro of Palazzo Paolo V and, to follow, the inauguration of the exhibition contemporary art “Introspections”.
The initiative, promoted by the Department of Culture of Municipality of Benevento in collaboration with the Bar Association and the moral patronage of the Gerardino Romano Foundation, was conceived by Alessandro Rillo and was created with the aim of celebrating the figure of one of the most important Italian intellectuals of the twentieth century and of remembering, at fifty from the sentence issued by the Court of Benevento, the relationship of Pier Paolo Pasolini with the city of Benevento.
Pasolini's trial
In fact, on 20 October 1972, the Court of Benevento, in the persons of judges Daniele Cusani, Bruno Rotili and Alfonso Bosco, issued a sentence of acquittal against Pasolini, accused of the crime of "obscene show", following the screening in national preview, on 2 September, at the Cinema Comunale of Benevento of the film "The Canterbury Tales", inspired by the literary work of Chaucer. Producer Alberto Grimaldi and Salvatore Iannella from Benevento, manager of the Cinema Comunale and personal friend of the director, were tried together with Pasolini, all acquitted on the grounds that "the act does not constitute a crime".
“The sentence, which captured the attention of the national press, in giving the film the value of a work of art, represented a hymn to freedom of artistic expression and, even today, deserves to be remembered because Benevento, characterized by historical tradition by widespread religious sentiment, a fundamental page was written, both from a legal point of view, but even more so from a social, political and moral point of view" explains the Councilor for Culture, Antonella Tartaglia Polcini.
The inauguration and exhibition of Alessandro Rillo
At the meeting, after greetings from the councilor Tartaglia Polcini and the president of the Benevento Bar Association, Stefania Pavone, the following will speak: the magistrate Simonetta Rotili; Alessandro Viola, author of the book "Fascism according to Pasolini" and the art historian Francesco Morante. The writer Tullia Bartolini will moderate.
At the end of the meeting, the inauguration of Alessandro Rillo's exhibition entitled "Introspezioni" will be held. In the exhibition itinerary, a selection of papers, picto-sculptures and installations find inspiration from Pasolini's concepts, in a continuous analysis of man in his deepest psychological and social aspects. Furthermore, some of the works on paper were created on the copy of the frontispiece of the trial file against Pasolini, with the aim of remembering both the figure of the great master and the judicial story and the other protagonists of the historic sentence.
The exhibition will be open to visitors until May 8th, every day from 9am to 30pm and on Tuesdays and Thursdays also in the afternoon from 13pm to 30pm.
Below is the event poster:
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