Genoa celebrates Gassman, the centenary exhibition at the Ducale

GENOA - Photographs, posters, costumes, props, models and a room where you can recite the Divine Comedy together with the great actor.

Walking through the rooms of "Vittorio Gassman", the great exhibition 100 years after its birth, which after Rome will be at Palazzo Ducale in Genoa until September 18, is a journey into the culture of the last century, played by those who have known how to walk it. through excellence, with the ability to pass from classical theater to Italian comedy with a truly unique versatility, charisma and talent.

«The red thread that unites everything on display is excellence - says Alessandro Nicosia, who curated the exhibition together with Diletta d'Andrea Gassmann and Alessandro Gassmann - because Vittorio everywhere puts his head has an extraordinary success.

Gassman does everything with extraordinary professionalism and with an innate talent, which allows him to alternate dramatic parts like Othello with the characters of Italian comedy in the space of a few days ».

A dutiful homage from Genoa, where the actor was born in the Struppa district and where he was the protagonist of memorable shows such as Ulysses and the white whale, on the occasion of the Colombiadi in 1992, whose scenes were curated by another illustrious Genoese, Renzo Floor.

"This is an exhibition, as his son Alessandro would say, in life and not in death - explains Serena Bertolucci, Director of Palazzo Ducale - extremely rich, full of surprises. There is also a substantial part linked to the memory of Genoa, with Moby Dick and the collaboration with Renzo Piano, a

monumental work which is one of the cornerstones of contemporary dramaturgy.

He had a very strong relationship with the city, his son Alessadnro told us that when he got angry he spoke in Genoese, as well as for Genoa, in an interview he defined himself as Genoa but with no satisfaction. "But the tribute from Genoa. a Gassman is not limited to the exhibition, since the entire Palazzo Ducale celebrates it, with a film review and with Casa Luzzati which recalls the relationship between the two great Genoese artists.