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06.12.2010
"THE FINAL ACT IF LOVE"
From 12 June to 30 October the MdM Museum in Porto Cervo will be presenting “The final act of love”.
The heart of this show is the mutual meeting of an unexpected triad: Alda Merini, Marilyn Monroe, and Mimmo Rotella. It summarizes the carnality and maternal understanding captured by the words of Alda Merini’s lyrics, and the fusion of her verses with the works by Mimmo Rotella and Giuliano Grittini: an act of reciprocal fecundation. “A top level meeting” is an expression usually reserved for the meeting of the greatest exponents-the “top” in fact-of a specific milieu. There is no better description of the intimate essence and the spirit of the show that we will be presenting. It will be exceptional in many ways, and will bring together Alda Merini, Mimmo Rotella, and Giuliano Grittini, each, in their own way, the channels for an intense and touching and, as will be seen, above all reciprocal, “final act of love”.
“Exceptional” is a highly abused word, however, in this case it is literally exact because the show can be considered, because of its content, “outside the rules”. And it could not be otherwise, having at its heart such a figure as that of Alda Merini, the greatest and most eccentric Italian poet of the past century. Documents and-photographs-by Giuliano Grittini, for twenty years the friend and supporter of the poet in a detached yet primary “act of love”-illustrate the final, most intense and fecund, phase of her life as an artist and as a woman. And it is Alda Merini who tributes the highest poetic “final act of love” to a genuine, luminous and sad, icon: Marilyn Monroe, who she also unexpectedly considered, with amazing intuition, to be a “poet”. Mimmo Rotella dedicated to the exceptional Marilyn-Alda Merini duo his own, no less exceptional, “final act of love”. He is an artist so well known that it would be superfluous to discuss him here. His is a tribute that was, sadly, to really be “final” in a literal sense because he died while creating the series of “décollages” inspired by the poems Alda Merini had dedicated to Marilyn: and so this “final act of love” of his has yet a further exceptional character.
Giuliano Grittini was also linked to Mimmo Rotella by a long collaboration; in this case his connection was also a “final act of love” which went far beyond the link of his profession of art printer, however magisterial it was. Between Alda Merini and Mimmo Rotella, Giuliano Grittini, we might well say, has the role of a presiding or even supreme priest for celebrating this many-sided and fully reciprocal “final act of love”. And this is not just because of the objective professional and friendly relationships that interwined his life with that of Alda Merini and Mimmo Rotella, but mainly because of his work as an artist. In fact Giuliano Grittini’s work as a painter sublimates and transfigures emotions and moods; he seals them with extreme elegance and fecund intensity, and they give further nourishment to the “top level meeting” which has already been mentioned.
The show will cover all the four levels of the museum with an extremely interesting documentary, iconographic, and multimedia part concerning Alda Merini and Mimmo Rotella seen through the lens of Giuliano Grittini. Then there comes the poetic account of the “myth of poetry” and the “myth of beauty” explained through the verses of Alda Merini, arranged almost as footnotes to Mimmo Rotella’s images in The final act of love. This is a gesture of closure to an act of love which for Rotella was represented by the back of a poster dating from 1954, and for Alda Merini by “La presenza di Orfeo”, her first collection of poems published by Schwarz Editore in 1953.
The emotive and empathetic meeting of two different interpretations of femininity and beauty is underlined by some thirty precious, unique, mixed-media works on canvas and panel by Giuliano Grittini; these act as a “balanced” counterweight to the art of Mimmo Rotella, represented on the last floor of the MdM Museum by drawings from the forties up to his final period.
On october 9, 2010 under the 6th Day of Contemporary Art organized A M A C I
*M d M Museum present THE FINAL ACT OF LOVE - Alda Merini, Mimmo Rotella homage a Marilyn Monroe with Giuliano Grittini
Exibition and Catalogue by Enrico Badellino Printed by SKIRA - Italia
Direction and Assistance by Rosy Fuga De Rosa
Operative and Editorial Assistance A R T E S
Archive and Certification of the Works Swiss Stellage artdata.ch
* Project promoted by GOCIL Group - Promenade du Port
june 12 - october 30, 2010 since Tuesday from Sunday h 15 - h 22
FREE ADMISSION
ph + 39 339 425 86 62
email: segreteria@mdmmuseum.com
www.mdmmuseum.com
The heart of this show is the mutual meeting of an unexpected triad: Alda Merini, Marilyn Monroe, and Mimmo Rotella. It summarizes the carnality and maternal understanding captured by the words of Alda Merini’s lyrics, and the fusion of her verses with the works by Mimmo Rotella and Giuliano Grittini: an act of reciprocal fecundation. “A top level meeting” is an expression usually reserved for the meeting of the greatest exponents-the “top” in fact-of a specific milieu. There is no better description of the intimate essence and the spirit of the show that we will be presenting. It will be exceptional in many ways, and will bring together Alda Merini, Mimmo Rotella, and Giuliano Grittini, each, in their own way, the channels for an intense and touching and, as will be seen, above all reciprocal, “final act of love”.
“Exceptional” is a highly abused word, however, in this case it is literally exact because the show can be considered, because of its content, “outside the rules”. And it could not be otherwise, having at its heart such a figure as that of Alda Merini, the greatest and most eccentric Italian poet of the past century. Documents and-photographs-by Giuliano Grittini, for twenty years the friend and supporter of the poet in a detached yet primary “act of love”-illustrate the final, most intense and fecund, phase of her life as an artist and as a woman. And it is Alda Merini who tributes the highest poetic “final act of love” to a genuine, luminous and sad, icon: Marilyn Monroe, who she also unexpectedly considered, with amazing intuition, to be a “poet”. Mimmo Rotella dedicated to the exceptional Marilyn-Alda Merini duo his own, no less exceptional, “final act of love”. He is an artist so well known that it would be superfluous to discuss him here. His is a tribute that was, sadly, to really be “final” in a literal sense because he died while creating the series of “décollages” inspired by the poems Alda Merini had dedicated to Marilyn: and so this “final act of love” of his has yet a further exceptional character.
Giuliano Grittini was also linked to Mimmo Rotella by a long collaboration; in this case his connection was also a “final act of love” which went far beyond the link of his profession of art printer, however magisterial it was. Between Alda Merini and Mimmo Rotella, Giuliano Grittini, we might well say, has the role of a presiding or even supreme priest for celebrating this many-sided and fully reciprocal “final act of love”. And this is not just because of the objective professional and friendly relationships that interwined his life with that of Alda Merini and Mimmo Rotella, but mainly because of his work as an artist. In fact Giuliano Grittini’s work as a painter sublimates and transfigures emotions and moods; he seals them with extreme elegance and fecund intensity, and they give further nourishment to the “top level meeting” which has already been mentioned.
The show will cover all the four levels of the museum with an extremely interesting documentary, iconographic, and multimedia part concerning Alda Merini and Mimmo Rotella seen through the lens of Giuliano Grittini. Then there comes the poetic account of the “myth of poetry” and the “myth of beauty” explained through the verses of Alda Merini, arranged almost as footnotes to Mimmo Rotella’s images in The final act of love. This is a gesture of closure to an act of love which for Rotella was represented by the back of a poster dating from 1954, and for Alda Merini by “La presenza di Orfeo”, her first collection of poems published by Schwarz Editore in 1953.
The emotive and empathetic meeting of two different interpretations of femininity and beauty is underlined by some thirty precious, unique, mixed-media works on canvas and panel by Giuliano Grittini; these act as a “balanced” counterweight to the art of Mimmo Rotella, represented on the last floor of the MdM Museum by drawings from the forties up to his final period.
On october 9, 2010 under the 6th Day of Contemporary Art organized A M A C I
*M d M Museum present THE FINAL ACT OF LOVE - Alda Merini, Mimmo Rotella homage a Marilyn Monroe with Giuliano Grittini
Exibition and Catalogue by Enrico Badellino Printed by SKIRA - Italia
Direction and Assistance by Rosy Fuga De Rosa
Operative and Editorial Assistance A R T E S
Archive and Certification of the Works Swiss Stellage artdata.ch
* Project promoted by GOCIL Group - Promenade du Port
june 12 - october 30, 2010 since Tuesday from Sunday h 15 - h 22
FREE ADMISSION
ph + 39 339 425 86 62
email: segreteria@mdmmuseum.com
www.mdmmuseum.com