The Exhibition on Pasolini in Rome: Everything is Sacred

The calendar of exhibitions in Rome for 2023 is packed. At any time of the year, Rome offers a rich cultural program, featuring exhibitions of contemporary art, modern art, and photography exhibitions.

There is truly something for everyone! To help you choose, we at Artsupp present the exhibition on Pasolini in Rome: “Pasolini Everything is Sacred The Seeing Body” at Palazzo Barberini, running until February 12. If you want to discover all the other exhibitions scheduled and ongoing in Rome, visit Artsupp.com and find the complete list of exhibitions in Rome 2023.

The exhibition on Pasolini in Rome

Pier Paolo Pasolini is on display in Rome at the three venues of Palazzo Barberini, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, and Maxxi. On the centenary of his birth (March 5, 1922), Rome celebrates his life and intellectual activity in three of the city’s most important museums.

Pasolini EVERYTHING IS SACRED The Seeing Body at Palazzo Barberini until February 12, 2023

Until February 12, Palazzo Barberini hosts Pasolini EVERYTHING IS SACRED The Seeing Body, one of the three sections of the exhibition project dedicated to one of the most significant intellectuals of 20th-century Italy, Pier Paolo Pasolini.

The Pasolini exhibition in Rome explores the decisive role of artistic tradition in the cinema and visual imagination of the intellectual, from the Primitives to the Baroque, up to the subversive realism of Caravaggio, and the theme of the sacred, which, as the title of the entire exhibition series reminds us, represents the common thread of this journey.

Pasolini EVERYTHING IS SACRED The Seeing Body, with its 140 works, investigates transversely through a “visual montage” the recurring themes in the research of the Italian intellectual: the body, the figure, and the images.

Pasolini and the Great Masters of the Past

Pasolini, since his time as a student at the University of Bologna, was literally struck by the works of the great masters of the past and their ability to represent the bodies: Caravaggio, Pontormo, and Michelangelo became for him a true source of inspiration.

The photographs, film stills, and even books by Pasolini are skillfully placed throughout the rooms of Palazzo Barberini and interact with the great masterpieces of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries preserved in the museum.

The epilogue of the exhibition coincides with the Narcissus by Caravaggio, as explained by the exhibition curator – Michele Mari – “If there was an author who was truly narcissistic in 20th-century Italy, it was Pasolini.”

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