Food in the drawings by Federico Fellini

Exhibitions

Federico Fellini made thousands of drawings, drawing was an almost maniac compulsion for him, he started doing it at the age of 15 and never stopped.
The exhibition is composed by 19 drawings made by the Maestro in different moments of his career, almost all splattered at the table –made on paper and on cloth napkins- and coming mostly from his “Libro dei sogni” (the Book of Dreams), a dreamlike journal kept for about thirty years.
And we can say that food is at the root of all Fellini’s work, just like childhood and dreaming, an extraordinary world that the exhibition fully reflects.

Two screenings accompany the exhibit:
“Long Journey”, a very peculiar animated short film based on the Maestro’s drawings realized by Andrej Khrzhanovskij in 1997
the documentary by Giuseppe Ricci “Food in the cinema by Fellini”, a patchwork of scenes taken from Fellini’s films related to food.
Screening on 3rd July at 10:00am and on 5th July at 12:30am
from 29/06/2017 to 09/07/2017
The exhibition is part of “FELLINI, FOOD & GIULIETTA”, a celebration of the great Italian director inside the National Art Festival, which also includes the screening of:
"La strada"  (1st July h 11:30am and 4th July h 10:00am)
“Night of Cabiria” (2nd July h 12:30am and 6th July h 10:00am)
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