The Salce Collection National Museum in Treviso presents the exhibition Renato Casaro from September 5 to November 9, 2025. Once Upon a Time in the Western. This is the second thematic monographic exhibition in the Renato Casaro Room (a permanent exhibition section named after him in the San Gaetano venue), dedicated to the master of international film posters, who will be present at the opening.
After the exhibition dedicated to comedy, the exhibition now focuses on westerns, the genre that more than others has consecrated Casaro internationally. The exhibition will feature drawings, sketches, posters, and playbills that reveal his extraordinary ability to render the epic, dusty, and heroic nature of western cinema, both Italian and Hollywood. Boundless landscapes, tension-filled close-ups and legendary shootouts emerge in the works on display, which include works that have entered the collective memory such as the posters for The Magnificent Seven and Dances with Wolves, along with the sketches that immortalized Sergio Leone’s famous Dollar Trilogy.
The exhibition, enriched by never-before-seen materials fromthe artist’s personal archive, allows the public to follow the creative process leading from the first sketches to the final version of the poster, revealing the intensity of Casaro’s dialogue with the directors and his ability to translate the atmospheres of cinema into images that became famous. Of particular interest is the core dedicated to the two posters created for the fictional films used as props in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (2019), which enshrine Casaro’s connection with Hollywood. Among the most striking pieces is also the saddle used by Terence Hill in the film My Name is Nobody, personally donated to the artist by the actor, evidence of a deep friendship and mutual esteem.
As Elisabetta Pasqualin, director of the Salce Collection National Museum, points out, the Renato Casaro Room offers the opportunity to “follow the entire creative process of his works, from the first sketches dictated by the meeting-confrontation with the directors, to the sketches, up to the final version and the different variants for foreign markets.” This second monographic exhibition confirms the Museum’s commitment to enhancing the legacy of an artist who signed the graphic image of films such as Rambo, Amadeus, The Name of the Rose, and The Last Emperor, collaborating with directors such as Sergio Leone, Francis Ford Coppola, Bernardo Bertolucci and Quentin Tarantino.
Casaro’s tribute will continue in the coming years with new thematic exhibitions dedicated to other film genres, from fantasy to horror, cult classics to war, and settings of Ancient Rome, adventure, action and science fiction.
During the exhibition period, Renato Casaro will also be present on several occasions to meet the public: Sunday, Sept. 14, in the afternoon; Saturday, Sept. 27, in the afternoon; Saturday, Oct. 4, in the afternoon; and Saturday, Oct. 18, in the afternoon.
The exhibition is open Friday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (last admission 5:30 p.m.). Opening on Friday, September 5, at 12 noon.
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| At the Salce Collection National Museum in Treviso, a monograph on the western by Renato Casaro |
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