Palazzo Pigorini’s Exhibitions
Periodo:
04 Feb 2018 - 11 Mar 2018
“Zhdat’ from the Alps to Siberia” in the photographs of Fabio Pasini and “The faces of alienation” of Roberto Sambonet on display in Parma. The Dolomites and Siberia, mountains and an ice desert that seem to annihilate any possible form of rebellion, both physical and intellectual. The project Zhdat’ tells the story of these places through the vision of the photographer Fabio Pasini.
The exhibition shows and investigates the complex phenomenon of mental disease through the portraits (40 drawings and 70 studies) that Roberto Sambonet made between 1951 and 1952 at the mental hospital of Juqueri, fifty km from San Paulo in Brazil, where he’d been invited by the director Edu Machado Gomes. Sambonet spent six months at the hospital, conducting personal research, portraying patients in some very touching works, in Indian ink and pencil drawings, which are all capable of going beyond the face and showing thoughts, emotions and feelings. In this exhibition, the artist pulls together portraits of patients and lyrics of authors who have faced and have narrated of insanity in their works, such as Allen Ginsberg, Dino Campana, Gaetano Donizetti, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Edgar Lee Masters, William Shakespeare, Voltaire Friedrich Holderlin, and Edgar Allan Poe.
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Location:
Palazzo Pigorini, Parma