Five Contemporary Artists Engage with Pasolini's Legacy in Taranto

The exhibition 'Pier Paolo Pasolini: tempo presente ‒ cinque presenze nell’arte contemporanea' at CRAC Puglia in Taranto presents works by Fernando De Filippi, Giulio De Mitri, Gianluca Murasecchi, Pippo Patruno, and Lino Sivilli. Curated by Cecilia Pavone, the show addresses themes from Pasolini's artistic, literary, and cinematic oeuvre on the centenary of his birth. De Filippi's photographic fragment quotes Pasolini's line 'nella tenerezza eroica d’un immortale stagione,' linking political and aesthetic struggle. De Mitri explores human and moral freedom through cobalt blue figurative and dreamlike imagery inspired by butterfly wings. Murasecchi's site-specific 'Paradiso perduto' for the church of Sant'Andrea degli Armeni critiques consumerism and postmodernity suffocating social revolution. Patruno's triptych 'Quelli sognati sono tutti salvi, quelli raggiunti sono già svaniti' uses found materials and fragments to dialogue with Pasolini's 1955 novel 'Ragazzi di vita.' Sivilli's 'Appunti per un altro film' presents four images referencing Pasolini's cinematic narrative, bridging urban and rural dynamics.