Slovakia – Travelling around Italy and its cinema with the Centro Cinema Cesena
After the success of the exhibition on Fellini’s 8 ½ with Paul Ronald’s unpublished photos, the Italian Cultural Institute in Bratislava organizes another exhibition with the Centro Cinema Città di Cesena and the images from its rich and precious archive: Italy – Landscape, Film, Photography, open from February 23 to March 8.
The exhibition on Fellini was set in last June in Bratislava and Kosice in an ‘open-air gallery’, displaying large-format images in citylights in the streets of the city centre and at public transport stops.
This original setting in spaces normally used for advertising has been chosen also for the exhibition Taliansko - Krajina, film, fotografia, curated by Centro Cinema Cesena director Antonio Maraldi and made in collaboration with Emilia-Romagna Region.
The exhibition is composed of 50 images testifying a story and a 70-year journey in Italian cinema.
It starts from the post-war period – when, inspired by Neorealism, Italian cinema moved out on to the streets and squares all over Italy – and goes on to the present time. Thanks to the excellent work done by set photographers, the entire country is represented, in a fascinating album of places and images, sensations and characters, starting from Ossessione (Obsession) by Luchino Visconti (1943) to The Traitor by Marco Bellocchio (2019).
Italian cinema and its actors are very popular in Slovakia and many films from which the photos come were screened in the festivals organized by the Italian Cultural Institute in Bratislava, Cinevitaj and MittelCinemaFest, presenting classic and contemporary Italian cinematography. Also on the occasion of this exhibition, the Institute proposes a series of Italian movies (online, on Kino Doma platform).