The weirdness - Lia Pasqualino exhibition
The exhibition is a selection of photographs taken by Lia Pasqualino during the shooting of the film The Oddity. With twenty-two photographs, the artist captures the atmosphere of the shoot, the situations depicted in the film and the characters.
The Strange is a film about the process of creation and inspiration, balancing on the border between real and imagined events in the life of the great Argentine writer Luigi Pirandello. At the heart of the film is the relationship between Pirandello and Sicily, which reveals the writer-genius's own obsessions and his life in rural Sicily in the 1920s. The film includes some real stories with real characters. Pirandello returns to Sicily for an official celebration of Verga's eightieth birthday, when he learns of the death of his beloved nurse Maria Stella. The shaken writer decides to organise a fitting farewell in her memory, but bureaucratic red tape delays the date for the final tribute. While waiting for the formalities to be sorted out, the writer becomes acquainted with the two funeral assistants he has hired, Nofrio and Bastiano, who are also keen amateur actors. While attending a performance gone wrong by the two actors' troupe, Pirandello understands the curiosity and dramaturgical idea he has been searching for years, which was missing in the completion of the mysterious text he was working on. The film is the prequel to the six-character play In Search of an Author, staged at the Teatro Vallé in Rome.
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He has published two books, Il manoscritto del principe (The Prince's Manuscript), published by Federico Motta (2000) and Intorno a Viaggio segreto (In the Footsteps of a Film on the Road of Memories), published by Contrasto (2006). In 2008, an exhibition of portrait photographs taken during his twenty years of work, presented by Ferdinando Scianna, was shown for the first time to the public at Adi Corbetta's Corso Magenta 10 Gallery in Milan. In 2009, the Angeletti Studio in Rome hosted an exhibition of his work, curated by Incontri Internazionali d'Arte. In the same year, he participated in the collective exhibition La camera dello sguardo (The Focus of the Gaze) in Palermo, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva. In 2013, the city of Rijeka hosted an exhibition dedicated to the artist entitled Prove di memoria (Evidence of Memory). In 2017, the Galleria del Cembalo in Rome hosted a cycle of photographs entitled Attraverso (Through the Glass) and his work was included in the collective exhibition Segreto (Secret), organised by the National Photographic Institute of Palermo under the care of Letizia Battaglia. In 2021, a retrospective exhibition entitled Il tempo dell'attesa (The Time of Waiting), curated by Giovanna Calvenzi, was held at the Capodimonte Museum as part of the Campania Theatre Festival. On this occasion, a volume of the same title, published by Postcart, was presented by Roberto Andò, Letizia Battaglia, Giovanna Calvenzi, Salvatore Silvano Nigro, Dacia Maraini, Li
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The Italian Institute of Culture in Budapest (Istituto italiano di cultura per l'Ungheria) is an Italian state institution, established in 1937 to develop cultural relations between Italy and Hungary. It offers the opportunity to learn the Italian language, visit the library and temporary exhibitions, Italian-language films, and also offers grants, scholarships and job opportunities.
