Full Description
This volume is one of three companion catalogues to an exhibition taking place simultaneously at three venues in Rome on the large-scale projects of Pier Paolo Pasolini. They explore a theme dear to Pasolini — sacredness — with a multidisciplinary approach that will shed a light on his main characteristics as a poet, writer, director, and artist and on the cultural influence he wielded. This is the catalogue for the exhibition at Fondazione MAXXI, which explores the many facets of Pasolini's political engagement. Texts, images, movies, notes, and documents will narrate the beginning of a protest that has endured to this day, with interpretations of Pasolini's work is seen through the voices of contemporary artists.
An essay by Anne Violaine Houcke analyses Pasolini's final period, while Ara Merjan's text explores his aesthetics. Marco Belpoliti explores the 1975 timeline, giving special attention to the political events most closely connected to Pasolini.
Incudes contributions by Eleonora Cardinale, Roberto Chiesi, Silvia De Laude, Fabio Francione, Giuseppe Garrera, and Vincenzo Trione.
Text in English and Italian.
Contents
8 Foreword
Giovanna Melandri
10 Pier Paolo Pasolini. Everything is Sacred.
The Political Body
Bartolomeo Pietromarchi
20 "It Was Indeed a Firefly, in the Crack
of a Wall." 1975 - 2022
Giulia Ferracci
58 Pasolini and the Inferno of the Present:
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Roberto Chiesi
64 Pasolini. Volgar'eloquio
Fabio Francione
70 Lutheran Letters
Eleonora Cardinale
76 Pasolini the Lutheran and the Apostle
Exercises in Sanctity
Giuseppe Garrera
84 Beast of Style
Eleonora Cardinale
92 Petrolio
Silvia De Laude
105 Works on Display
106 Noor Abed
108 Sammy Baloji
110 Elisabetta Benassi
112 Paul Chan
114 Alvin Curran
116 Dante Ferretti
118 Claire Fontaine
120 Jorge Fuembuena Loscertales
122 Aziz Hazara
124 Huang Yong Ping
126 Nalini Malani
128 Fabio Mauri
130 Marzia Migliora
132 Giulio Paolini
134 Pino Pascali
136 Francesco Vezzoli
138 Ming Wong
140 Yan Pei-Ming
144 Let's Imagine It, Together!
Notes on Pier Paolo Pasolini's Influences
on the Global Contemporary Art World
Hou Hanru
158 Pasolini and the Metaphysical
Experience
Paul Chan
166 Hieratical Empiricism:
On Pasolini's "Technical Sacrality"
Ara H. Merjian
180 Pasolini and the Form of the Revolution
Anne-Violaine Houcke
196 The Glorious Body. Pasolini and Soccer
Vincenzo Trione
206 1975: The Final Year
Marco Belpoliti
