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Pier Paolo Pasolini by Ernest Pignon Ernest..

Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian film director, poet, writer and intellectual. Pasolini also distinguished himself as an actor, journalist, philosopher, novelist, playwright, painter and political figure.

He remains a controversial personality in Italy to this day due to his blunt style and the focus of some of his works on taboo sexual matters, but he is an established major figure in European literature and cinematic arts. His murder prompted an outcry in some circles of Italy, with its circumstances continuing to be a matter of heated debate.

Pier Paolo Pasolini that Ernest Pignon-Ernest immortalizes by mixing religious iconography with the profane world. In other words, Pasolini, as in Michelangelo's Pieta, holds in his arms his own tortured body. Ernest Pignon-Ernest sketched it on the very spot where the poet and director (from the popular neighborhood of Rome's Trastevere to the Ostia beach where he was murdered) lived, then photographed them, including Those that have been broken or torn, as if the figure of Pasolini, Catholic, communist and homosexual, always disturbed.

 

Paolo Pasolini qu'Ernest Pignon-Ernest immortalise en mêlant l'iconographie religieuse au monde profane. Autrement dit, Pasolini, comme dans la Pieta de Michel-Ange, tient dans ses bras son propre corps supplicié. Ce dessin, Ernest Pignon-Ernest l'a collé sur les lieux mêmes où a vécu le poète et réalisateur (du quartier populaire du Trastevere de Rome à la plage d'Ostia où il fut assassiné), puis il les a photographiées, y compris celles qui ont été raturées ou déchirées, comme si la figure de Pasolini, catholique, communiste et homosexuel, dérangeait toujours.

 

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