Le donne di Kabul. Nello sguardo del fotografo Pino Settanni
27 May 2024
Salvatore Ferragamo 1898-1960
3 June 2024When you think of Fellini, the mind runs to a long series of extraordinary film sequences, true dream visions that have made the history of Italian and world-wide cinema. From the appearance of the transatlantic Rex in Amarcord to the grotesque masks of Satyricon, the Fellini epic is a continuous overlapping of images and contents that link art to literature, the most elitist surrealism to the most everyday reality.
Few people know, however, that the dream vision underlying these magnificent stagings is the fruit of meticulous work, more intimate but no less visionary: tempera and chalk panels on cardboard, capable of evoking the physical and character traits of the actors, the variously domestic, foreign or surreal atmospheres of the environments.
With Federico Fellini behind the scenes, Fondazione Cirulli offers an in-depth look at the stage works of Danilo Donati, an internationally renowned set and costume designer, winner of two Oscars and a David di Donatello, who, through his collaborations with Pasolini, Fellini and Benigni, wrote fundamental pages in the history of twentieth-century Italian cinema.
Divided into a journey that examines three important films - Amarcord, Satyricon and Casanova - the exhibition includes a dozen original studies by Danilo Donati, a difficult selection from a corpus of over 100 works, capable of catapulting the visitor into the atmosphere of the film set to offer a fresco of the extraordinary relationship between visual arts, cinematographic art and artistic craftsmanship that are at the basis of the fortune of Italian cinema.
