Alfredo Pirri's 'Le Erinni' Installation Celebrates 70 Years of Accademia Nazionale di Danza
Alfredo Pirri's installation 'Le Erinni (secondo Jean Paul Sartre)' at Mattatoio La Pelanda in Rome celebrates the 70th anniversary of the Accademia Nazionale di Danza, founded in 1948 by Jia Ruskaja. The work reinterprets Sartre's 1943 play 'The Flies', which itself reimagined Aeschylus' 'The Libation Bearers'. Central to the installation are fifty female costumes from the Academy's archive, hung from the ceiling like empty shells, evoking the Furies of myth and the horrors of war. Alongside, fifty oil pastel drawings on photographs of the costumes from past performances are displayed. The exhibition runs until July 14, 2018, and follows Pirri's 2017 retrospective at Macro Testaccio.
Key facts
- Alfredo Pirri created the installation 'Le Erinni (secondo Jean Paul Sartre)' at Mattatoio La Pelanda in Rome.
- The installation celebrates the 70th anniversary of the Accademia Nazionale di Danza, founded in 1948 by Jia Ruskaja.
- The work references Jean-Paul Sartre's 1943 play 'The Flies', which was based on Aeschylus' 'The Libation Bearers'.
- Fifty female costumes from the Academy's archive are hung from the ceiling, symbolizing the Furies and war victims.
- Fifty oil pastel drawings on photographs of the costumes from performances are also exhibited.
- The exhibition runs until July 14, 2018.
- Pirri had a retrospective at Macro Testaccio in 2017.
- The installation combines music, dance, and poetry, echoing ancient Greek theatre.
Entities
Artists
- Alfredo Pirri
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Jia Ruskaja
- Aeschylus
Institutions
- Accademia Nazionale di Danza
- Mattatoio La Pelanda
- Macro Testaccio
Locations
- Rome
- Italy
- Paris
- France