Bernardo Bertolucci. Il Novecento

At the Palazzo del Governatore, in the historic center of Parma, from March 27 to July 26, the exhibition Bernardo Bertolucci. Il Novecento celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of Bernardo Bertolucci's film Novecento.

The extensive exhibition will unfold across twenty-five rooms arranged according to four major sections:

• the context. The Seventies and Bertolucci's Emilia, with original posters, first editions of books and historic records, photographs, newspapers, posters of the major battles of an era driven by gigantism, alongside private, intimate memories and artifacts of the brilliant Bertolucci family and their native land; 
• the filming, with unpublished videos, on-set materials, maps illustrating the inimitable life of a crew working together for an entire year, including the “legendary” soccer match 900 vs Salò;
• the film, conveyed through an innovative dialogue between significant works of art (Pellizza da Volpedo, Covili, Vallotton, Butti and others) and installations, in order to also tell the seminal “spiral” intertwining of cyclical time and linear time developed by Bertolucci in the film; 
• the Reception, inaugurated by the true pictorial “triumph” of the exhibition under the sign of red flags – with some of the greatest Italian artists of the twentieth century – and then followed by the lively, heated, passionate worldwide critique “for or against” the Twentieth Century.  

The visitor is guided through the genesis of the film and its artistic legacy, through unpublished materials – the archives are opened for the first time and hundreds of never-before-seen photos and working materials will be exhibited –, period testimonies, and pictorial masterpieces, including works by Lucio Fontana, Mario Schifano, Franco Mulas, Renato Guttuso, Salvo, Franco Angeli, Giulio Turcato, and Alighiero Boetti. All gathered in a single room, together, to remember the red flag of the final scene.

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