Lorenzo Mattotti. Storie, ritmi, movimenti

Mattotti’s pastel illustrations immediately stand out for their vibrant tones. If the artist handles colour as a narrative theme with verve, his talent also lies in the sensitivity with which he knows how to reinvent a formal vocabulary of emotions.

The exhibition starts by analysing Mattotti’s intense and vital relationship with music, as witnessed by two important nuclei of works: the illustrations collected in Lou Reed’s The Raven (2011) and the large ink plates drawn for the staging of Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel (2009) at the Paris Opera.

The section dedicated to cinema, together with a series of works related to the interludes for the three episodes of the film Eros by Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh and Wong Kar-wai, includes excerpts from his many animations with their preparatory drawings. A special space is dedicated to his highly acclaimed feature film La famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia (2019), based on the novel of the same name by Dino Buzzati.

Finally, to narrate Mattotti’s relationship with the world of dance, some of the drawings collected in the book Carneval (2005), the result of the artist’s immersive experience at the carnival in Rio de Janeiro, and three large unpublished canvases, painted for the Brescian exhibition, and belonging to a cycle of works on collective dances, will be exhibited.