‘Pasolini, Our Next,’ pays tribute to late Italian artist

TIRANA, May 9 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, one of the most courageous and influential Italian artists of the 20th century is being featured in an exhibition at the Miza gallery in Tirana . His oeuvre, which spans poetry, film and painting, stands in the van guard of mid-century and beyond debates on inequality, violence and the alienation of human beings in modernity will be on display from may 9 to June 2. Interpreted by many as perverse and radical, Pasolini’s critique of modernity is also romantic: his films frequently present us with alternative, pre-modern realities, where people live without religion, government or technology.
The artists of “Pasolini Prossimo Nostro” [Pasolini, Our Next] have been influenced by and refer to different elements of Pasolini’s vast body of work, but especially his views on power and its effects on the social and individual body, which have been thoroughly articulated also in Giuseppe Bertolucci’s documentary with the same title (2006). As we see in the works of Adrian Paci, Blerdi Fatusha, Endri Dani and Leke M Gjeloshi, who coincidentally or not are all from Shkodra and have lived and worked in Italy, Pasolini’s social critique is highly relevant even today, in Albania and elsewhere.
Born in 1922 screen writer, essayist, poet, critic and novelist, Pier Paolo Pasolini was murdered violently in 1975.