NAPLES - Del Verdone, a missed doctor, capable of diagnosing and recommending drugs to friends, almost everything is known. Few were aware of the Roman actor and director's passion for photography. A passion kept hidden from the general public by Verdone and that now Elisabetta Sgarbi, director of 'La Milanesiana', festival of arts and knowledge now in its twenty-first edition, has decided to bring to light by setting up an exhibition, 'Carlo Verdone, clouds and colors' , whose preview will be held tomorrow evening at the Madre museum in Naples where it will remain on display until November 1st.
In the shots of the photographer Verdone, all turned towards the sky, mostly taken from the terrace of his Roman house after a storm or at sunset, it is not difficult to see that touch of melancholy that peeps out even in his most comic films. "All natural atmospheres, real spontaneous paintings" specifies the actor who will be present at the first. The exhibition, curated by Paolo Mereghetti and Elisabetta Sgarbi, sees 42 shots exposed: a color story of the sky, which becomes a poetic journey in real and fantastic shapes that the artist's eye captures in the apparent randomness of nature.
"My camera - Verdone explains - always points up, towards the sky. It always amazes me, fascinates me, cheers me up, it worries me. It attracts me because it is never the same. Sometimes it seems to me the mood of God. Other times an immense page where I find mysterious phrases and drawings written from the clouds. But you have to hurry up, catch the meaning in an instant before everything disarticulates and extinguishes. Before the sun, sinking into the horizon, turns off the light on the divine ceiling ".
"Carlo Verdone points the camera into the sky. And it is his 'secular prayer' - remembers Elisabetta Sgarbi - and it is as if we entered into its clouds. His is an encyclopedia of the inner gaze in constant evolution".
The exhibition also marks the debut of the collaboration between 'La Milanesiana' and the Museo Madre di Napoli chaired by Laura Valente. "The first time in Naples of Elisabetta Sgarbi's La Milanesiana - Valente says - confirms the line taken by the Mother in the last two years, that of an institution increasingly oriented towards making the different languages and cultures of the contemporary dialogue. This appointment is part of in our summer dedicated to Gianni Rodari, and to his grammar of fantasy ".
