Patrizia Cavalli, Exhibition MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome

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Patrizia Cavalli:

The suspicion of paradise

From 30 May to 25 August 2024

MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art

Via Nizza, 138, Rome

Opening soon: at 10:00

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The suspicion of paradise is the first exhibition that a museum institution dedicates to the poet Patrizia Cavalli (Todi, 1947 - Rome, 2022), a key figure in Italian poetry of the second half of the 20th century, whose Roman home was an important meeting place for the cultural environment of the capital. Patrizia Cavalli made her debut in 1974 with the first collection My poems will not change the world published by Einaudi. Her literary debut was favored by the encounter during her philosophy studies with Elsa Morante, who recognized her poetic vocation and introduced her to the artistic world of those years: she became friends with, among others, Giorgio Agamben, Ginevra Bompiani, Alfonso Berardinelli, Bice Brichetto, Carlo Cecchi, and Angelica Ippolito. Biancamaria Frabotta included her in the anthology "Women in poetry - Anthology of female poetry in Italy from the post-war period to today" (Savelli, 1974). Subsequently, the volumes of poems "The Sky" (Einaudi, 1981) and "My own singular self" (Einaudi, 1992) were published, which were later combined with the title of the debut in the collection "Poems. 1974-1992" (Einaudi, 1992). This was followed by the publications "Always open theater" (Einaudi, 1999), "The guardian" (Nottetempo, 2005), "Lazy deities and lazy fate" (Einaudi, 2006), "The homeland" (Nottetempo, 2011), "Climbing stairs is good for the heart" (with Diana Tejera, Voland, 2012), "Datura" (Einaudi, 2013), "Flighty matters" (Quodlibet, 2017), "With Japanese steps" (Einaudi, 2019) and "Wonderful life" (Einaudi, 2020). The exhibition project allows you to get to know, through over 200 photographs by Lorenzo Castore, the house on Via del Biscione near Campo de' Fiori, where Cavalli lived for almost 50 years. The color and black and white film photographs were taken over the course of a week, two months after the poet's death and shortly before the house was dismantled. They document for the last time the uninhabited interiors in a sequence of shots that, from an environmental scale, focus on objects, furniture, portraits, manuscripts, works of art, often collected by Cavalli over time from artist friends. Her domestic world is thus returned through a detailed photograph with material quality.

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Patrizia Cavalli:

The suspicion of paradise

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