ITALY 2022
EXHIBITION
“INTERVIEW WITH PASOLINI” By Davide Toffolo
To commemorate the centenary of the birth of writer and director Pier Paolo Pasolini (Bologna, 5th March 1922 - Rome, 2nd November 1975), the Italian Embassy in Belgrade, the Italian Cultural Institute in Belgrade and the Viva Comix association present an exhibition entitled Interview with Pasolini, by Davide Toffolo.
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he exhibition will include over 70 comic art pages of the homonymous graphic novel also known as “Pasolini”, in the 2015 Rizzoli Lizard edition - that Toffolo first created in 2002 and which has also been published in French and Spanish. Also on display will be a selection of drawings created by Toffolo on the occasion of the live performance Pasolini, L’incontro, as well as covers of the book’s various editions. The book sees Toffolo establish an imaginary conversation with Pasolini’s alter ego (a double, perhaps a ghost). The words spoken by Pasolini in the comic are actually derived from essays, interviews and authentic speeches of this intellectual, thus creating an original and captivating introduction to his critical reflection and non-fiction production. The exhibition project was conceived by Paola Bristot, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and president of the Viva Comix association. As the curator explains, “Pasolini loved comics and in his artistic research used them for the screenplay of the storyboard of the film La terra vista dalla luna [The Earth As Seen from the Moon]. For a writer who creates comics like Toffolo, this was one of the “hooks” from which to start addressing the works of this Friulian poet. The choice of imagining a character, Mr Pasolini, who introduces himself and, above all, who speaks like the Friulian poet, was a fictional solution that allowed him to continue still active reflections while simultaneously remaining consistent. “The topics that Pier Paolo Pasolini took on with great intellectual clar-
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