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 _ Paper dreams in the cinema of Bernardo Bertolucci
Paper dreams in the cinema of Bernardo Bertolucci
Rovereto  2007
In collaboration with “Future Present”, the Festival of contemporary arts, Rovereto town council and the Autonomous Province of Trento
Curated by Maurizio Baroni. Catalogue by esaExpoedizioni
The exhibition is available for new showings

This exhibition was presented at the MART museum in Rovereto, as part of the “Future Present” Festival of contemporary arts put on by the Cultural office of the Autonomous Province of Trento. It surveyed the landmarks of the professional career of Bernardo Bertolucci (Parma, 1941), a great Maestro and leading figure in the history of cinema over the last forty years. Although influenced by the poetry of Pasolini at the start of his career when very young, Bertolucci quickly developed a signature style of his own, through intense involvement with the figurative arts, musical tradition and literary culture. Indeed, striking features of his cinema are the collaborations with musicians such as Ennio Morricone, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Gato Barbieri and David Byrne, his encounters with literary influences from Alberto Moravia and Stendhal to Jorge Louis Borges and Paul Bowles, and his dialogue with its highly intense figurative traditions. The “Paper dreams” exhibition, which was opened in the presence of the Maestro himself, is an original rereading of Bertolucci's career as an artist, seen through the publicity material for his films – posters, film covers, original sketches, and artwork for the soundtracks – sourced from the Maurizio Baroni Archive. The work of some of the best Italian commercial artists (Renato Casaro, Piero Ermanno Iaia and Sandro Symeoni) has brought the official images of the films back to life, documenting all sixteen of Bertolucci's films, from “The Grip Reaper” (1962) to “The Dreamers” (2003).