VENICE - The exhibition 'The Carnival breaks the fog.
Venice, Scaparro, La Biennale 1980, 1981, 1982, 2006 from the Archive of the Venice Biennale 'that the Historical Archive of Contemporary Arts (Asac) organizes as a tribute to the 90 years of Maurizio Scaparro, director of the Theater Sector from 1979 to 1982 and from 2006 to 2009, and on the occasion of the Venice Carnival 2022. The exhibition presents photographs, videos, posters, documents, objects and period articles, from the Biennale Archives, which tell and illustrate the memorable carnivals conceived and organized da Scaparro in the years 1980, 1981, 1982 and 2006. Among others, images and documents of the 'Teatro del Mondo', the
Costumes from the Oscar-winning film The Last Emperor by Bernardo Bertolucci will be exhibited, already at the center of the Carnival dedicated to China and the journey of Marco Polo, The Dragon and the Lion (23-28 February 2006).
"Forty years have passed since the Naples Carnival in Venice, which ended on February 23, 1982 - declares Scaparro - but still today I have the many images that make up the memory of something unique, if not unrepeatable. pulcinella who, with their masks, invaded an enchanted Venice or the elephant that, in the 1981 Carnival, walked the streets as if it were a habitual passer-by, are some of the strongest moments that echo in the collective memory of those who participated in those days of culture ".
For the president of the Biennale, Roberto Cicutto, "the Carnivals of Scaparro, in addition to marking a real cultural turning point of freedom in the Italian society of the time, spread a 'web' with other places in the world: Naples, Paris, China. all these reasons The Biennale welcomes him back and celebrates him in its headquarters and in the city of Venice, and by right - he concludes - inscribes him in the heritage of the history of the Biennale ".