Director of films such as ‘Teorema’, poet and critic of the bourgeoisie, he is the subject, until August, of photos and texts at the CCBB
Pier Paolo Pasolini was a singular figure. Influential in many arts, such as cinema, poetry and theater, he was nevertheless a great thinker. Controversial, political and important name of the culture of the mid-twentieth century, he is the protagonist of the exhibition Along a long sandy roadwhich is at the Banco do Brasil Cultural Center in Rio until 2 August.
With 70 black and white photographs by photographer Paolo Di Paolo, as well as films, texts, reportages and documentaries by Pasolini, the exhibition is curated by Silvia Di Paolo, daughter of Di Paolo, and is presented in the year in which Pasolini will make 100 years. Before arriving in Brazil, the show visited Denmark and Portugal. According to Lívia Raponi, director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Rio de Janeiro – who brought the exhibition to Brazil – Pasolini’s art arrived in Brazil mainly through cinema. The director is known for films such as Theorem (1968) and Medea, the sorceress of love (1971).
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A controversial figure, Pasolini also attracted the attention of Italy for being a great critic of the Italian Economic Miracle, between the end of the Second World War and the beginning of the 1960s, when the country experienced strong economic and cultural growth.
“Pasolini was a strong critic of the founding principles of capitalism, of bourgeois society … What for others was progress, for him was a decay of traditional and global values”, adds Raponi to Estadio. “The photos were taken during a trip along the Italian coasts, seaside resorts … Along with the photos there are texts by Pasolini, which refer to the same places as the photographs. This is an exhibition by two authors.”
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