The exhibition “Il Centenario. Fellini nel mondo” (“The Centenary. Fellini in the world”), already exhibited in 8 countries, arrives in Barcelona. From today until 09 January, the Spanish public will be able to admire scripts, contracts, letters, drawings, photographs of sets and of the director’s private life, as well as posters, playbills, props, and costumes, accompanied by rare video documents including a number of interviews, some of which have not been seen before.
Promoted by the Italian Cultural Institute of Barcelona, with the patronage of the Embassy of Italy in Madrid and hosted at the El Born CCM (Centre for Culture and Memory) and curated by Vincenzo Mollica, Alessandro Nicosia and Francesca Fabbri Fellini, the exhibition was commissioned by the Directorate General for the Promotion of the Country System of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on the occasion of the centenary of Fellini’s birth (1920).
Barcelona is the final stop on a tour that has already taken the exhibition to Moscow, Sao Paulo, Vilnius, Tirana, Ljubljana, St. Petersburg, Buenos Aires, and Kiev. Inaugurating it, the Italian Consul in Barcelona, Emanuele Manzitti, accompanied by the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute, Lucio Izzo, said: “because of his creativity, the Maestro can be symbolically considered a true citizen of Barcelona , a member of the Italian community living here “. For the Ambassador to Spain, Riccardo Guariglia, the exhibition represents a “tangible signal” of the “the intention and the ability of Italian culture to be more alive and active than ever, even in the most critical periods”.
