The Salce Collection National Museum in Treviso welcomes from December 19, 2025 to March 29, 2026 the third thematic monographic exhibition dedicated to Renato Casaro(Treviso, 1935-2025), Renato Casaro. Fantasy and Science Fiction, the master of film poster art who passed away last September 30.
With this new exhibition, the institution continues its permanent exhibition project, reaffirming the central role of Casaro’s work and artistic legacy. The continuity of the programming is made possible by the constant and fundamental collaboration with his wife Gabriella, who has been curating the artist’s Personal Archive for more than 40 years. Through the Archive, the curatorial vision of the Master, who had chosen to donate a significant part of his original works to the Museum, is preserved and transmitted. The vast set of preparatory materials, flanked by original sketches and sketches, constitutes the heart of the Archive and allows the Museum not only to present the finished works, but to reconstruct and narrate Casaro’s entire creative journey, from the earliest stages of study to the final realization of the posters.“After forty years spent curating the Archive, the Maestro’s variety and imagination continue to amaze me, especially in such a visionary genre as this exhibition,” says Gabriella Casaro. “Renato had a veritable reservoir of images and suggestions-even clippings from magazines, books, sometimes ripped out on the spur of the moment-that he collected and classified thinking they could be useful to him in creating his posters.”
Renato Casaro. Fantasy and Science Fiction is the first exhibition set up after the Maestro’s death and is part of the cycle of in-depth studies dedicated to his production by film genres, following the reviews focusing on Comedy and Westerns. The exhibition aims to highlight Casaro’s extraordinary ability to capture the essence of a film and translate it into posters that, going beyond their promotional function, are configured as autonomous works, capable of generating independent visual universes and transcending the cinematic narrative of reference.
The exhibition presents a selection of about forty original sketches and preliminary sketches, documenting the artist’s rigorous creative process applied to epic and visionary films. Visitors are taken on an itinerary through imaginary worlds, mythical heroes and intergalactic adventures, discovering how Casaro constructed the visual imagery of some of the genre’s most emblematic titles. Among the works on display are the sketches for Flash Gordon (1980), the evocative interpretations of The Neverending Story (1984) and Momo (1986), the fantastical atmospheres of The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), to posters for mythological action films such as Conan the Barbarian (1982) and Conan the Destroyer (1984).
The exhibition thus offers a privileged opportunity to take a close look at how Renato Casaro was able to shape dream, myth and science fiction with an unmistakable language, contributing decisively to the collective imagination of an entire era.
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