MAPPE PASOLINIANE – PASOLINIAN MAPS
8 facies of 200 cm each, in 4 cotton cloths, 2 canvases 400 x 40 cm, 2 canvases 400 x 50 cm.
Charcoal, sepia, sanguine, burnt sienna, black and turquoise watercolor pencil.
RESEARCH
I often reread the geographies of Pasolini’s northern childhood. Lights, details, of the written page that becomes transparent in the landscape and through its child body shapes the world. This cosmogony is embodied in writing in the light of Rome.
Traces of the passages remain on the canvases, as if these fragments are caught in the reflection of a train window or in the disorientation of an awakening from a sleep in the heatwave. These Pasolinian Maps, do not show a representation of the world for orientation, each one merely points to the entire world from a single point that I have magnified on the canvas as if it was in a lens. Some of the questions I continue to ask about the origin and distances of a northern childhood, the sense of loss and centerless longing, have found in Pasolinian poetic practice a possible model for research.
INSTALLATION
The installation consists of eight maps each on two meters long, of four cotton canvases, each is double in two opposite directions. Two canvases, four meters by forty centimeters, I bought two canvases four meters by fifty in the oldest haberdashery in Trieste and others two in an old store in the Ghetto near Piazza Mattei, where Pasolini had rented a room upon his arrival in Rome.In the middle of the exhibition space are Pasolini’s fragments chosen from Operetta marina, La lunga strada di sabbia, Petrolio, and Le ceneri di Gramsci, rewritten with Olivetti, Lettera 32 typewriter, on transparent sheets.
