Siena, October 12 (askanews) – Pier Paolo Pasolini's painting dialogues with the Siena area. The Antica Grancia in Serre di Rapolano, in the province of Siena, hosts the exhibition "Pasolini. Paintings, Landscapes, People," a project curated by Daniela Ferrari and Riccardo Maria Balzarotti to explore one of the lesser-known aspects of the Friulian writer's work. "Here we are inside the Antica Grancia, which for a long time housed the Oil Museum," explained Carolina Taddei, coordinator of the Fondazione Musei Senesi, "and precisely because of the history of this building.
Meanwhile, on the first floor of the Grancia there is a section of temporary exhibitions and so, together with the administration, which had chosen to organize a move dedicated to Pasolini the painter, we found a way to connect Pasolini's work both to the role of the Grancia but also to the landscape of the Sienese countryside."
Paintings that are like poems in images, but also a Pasolinian library and many suggestions that intertwine alongside and around what was perhaps the most important Italian intellectual of the second half of the twentieth century. "The idea," added Giulia Russo, Councilor for Culture of the Municipality of Rapolano Terme, "was born from the desire to bring a giant of the twentieth century to our territory in Serre di Rapolano, which is a hamlet of the Municipality of Rapolano-Terme, to reveal a previously unknown Pasolini in his painting.
Painting, which for Pasolini was not seen as a secondary discipline, but precisely this connection with everything around him, and it is then the connection we have within the Museum of the Ancient Grange and Oil with the Sienese clays, with the land, with the rural world." The exhibition remains open to the public until January 10, 2027.
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