19 October 2022 – 26 February 2023
Three-year and two-year visual arts students worked on the staging of Fabio Mauri’s intellectual work, together with the Fabio Mauri studio.
On the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Pier Paolo Pasolini (Bologna, 5 March 1922 – Rome, 2 November 1975), the Azienda Speciale Palaexpo in Rome, the Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica and the MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo celebrate the figure of the director, writer and artist.
The common title, Pier Paolo Pasolini. EVERYTHING IS HOLY, is inspired by the phrase uttered by the wise man Chiron in the film Medea (1969), evoking the mysterious sacredness of the world: the archaic, religious world of the sub-proletariat, a world without classes and without ideological affiliations, as opposed to that of modernity ordered according to rational, secular, bourgeois principles.
The intellectual performance was proposed at the inauguration of the new Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna in Bologna in 1975 with the participation of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Fabio Mauri’s fraternal friend. On that occasion, the film ‘The Gospel according to St. Matthew’ was projected over Pasolini. The high volume of the sound, excessive compared to the small size of the image, increased the disorientation exerted by the action on both the audience and Pasolini himself.
Working with Studio Fabio Mauri were the students: Lorenzo Cappella, Alice Santarelli, Eleonora Favale, Federica Griesi, Giulia Bergantino, Giulia Di Pasquale, Giulia Romolo, Giulia Vitiello, Matteo Baccino, Sara Antonellis, Serena Stefanini, Viktoria Cardarelli.
