<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>[vc_column_text css=”” el_class=”testo-giustificato” el_id=”info”]If, as a thought experiment, one were to imagine that Isgr\u00f2\u2019s entire visual oeuvre had never existed, his literary and poetic production alone would suffice to justify this and many other exhibitions and to leave an indelible mark on the cultural landscape.<\/p>\n

Isgr\u00f2\u2019s first poems<\/b>, published by Schwarz in 1956, drew the attention of Pier Paolo Pasolini, who wrote about them in his article La Poesia e il Sud <\/i>(\u00abIl Punto\u00bb, May 25, 1957).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A close friendship with Eugenio Montale followed, though the poet famously ceased speaking to Isgr\u00f2 in 1966, after his provocative statement \u201cThe word is dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

A collection of his poems was published by Vittorini and Calvino in Einaudi\u2019s Menab\u00f2<\/i>, while his novels<\/b> were printed by Feltrinelli, Mondadori, and Sellerio. Among them, L\u2019avventurosa vita di Emilio Isgr\u00f2<\/i>\u2014recently reissued by Interlinea\u2014was shortlisted for the Premio Strega.<\/p>\n

He worked as a journalist<\/b> for Il Gazzettino, in Venice, editing, among others, articles by Giovanni Comisso. The story goes that, while revising one of Comisso\u2019s texts\u2014removing what he considered superfluous\u2014, Isgr\u00f2 conceived the idea of exploring the expressive and poetic power of Cancellatura<\/b> (Erasure)<\/b>. He later served as an editor at \u00abOggi\u00bb under Enzo Biagi and continues to contribute to \u00abCorriere della Sera\u00bb and \u00abLa Lettura\u00bb.<\/p>\n

Isgr\u00f2 was invited by Ludovico Corrao to Gibellina, where he was commissioned to create a work inspired by Aeschylus\u2019s Orestea<\/i> for the reconstruction of the city destroyed by the 1968 earthquake. His theatrical trilogy L\u2019Orestea di Gibellina<\/i> was staged among the ruins of the town on three occasions between 1983 and 1985.<\/p>\n

This multifaceted body of work highlights the impossibility of separating Isgr\u00f2\u2019s literary production from his visual art.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is therefore the \u201cword<\/b>\u201d\u2014far from dead\u2014that serves as the unifying thread<\/b> between these two parallel paths<\/b>. It is the word that \u2013 when erased \u2013\u00a0 <\/span>transcend its literal meaning to become a metaphor for the essential.\u00a0 <\/span>And it is still the word, or rather, a multitude of words that composes his writings.<\/p>\n

Rosso Shakespeare<\/i> seeks to explore the boundary where word and image converge.<\/p>\n

<\/b>The exhibition brings together theatrical texts, poetry collections, and novels<\/b> alongside visual works<\/b> with literary or writing-related subjects. It opens with pieces from the 1970s, including VItale <\/i>(1972), followed by Odyss\u00e9u<\/i>s (2018), a reinterpretation of the Odyssey, and Ala italiana, Corriere<\/i>(2013), based on the front page of \u00abCorriere della Sera\u00bb.<\/p>\n

The final two rooms are devoted to William Shakespeare<\/b>. Here, Isgr\u00f2\u2019s Red Erasure\u2014a signature motif of his most recent production\u2014becomes a monumental presence in Romeo e Giulietta <\/i>(2022) and Othello\u00a0 <\/span><\/i>(2019), made up of 38 and 36 volumes respectively.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1762511710762{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;}” el_id=”video”]<\/p>\n

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