Hugo Pratt's imagery on display in Recanati, with more than 60 original plates and reproductions

From August 25, 2023 to January 7, 2024, the halls of the Villa Colloredo Mels Museum in Recanati will host the exhibition From Ulysses to Corto Maltese. Journey into the Imaginary of Hugo Pratt, on the occasion of the opening of the Recanati Comics Festival.

On display are more than sixty original plates and reproductions intended to take visitors on a journey in which Hugo Pratt ’s characters dialogue with the authors and reference works of the Venetian master.

It starts with the twenty-six integral plates of theOdyssey, created in 1963 for Il Corriere dei piccoli: Ulysses was the first sailor drawn by Hugo Pratt, who called theOdyssey “a kaleidoscope of all the situations of the adventure novel.” The exhibition tour continues with a recounting of the many journeys and exotic characters that characterized Pratt’s rich comic book production and Corto Maltese’s sailings: to Rapa Nui to sail the seas in the company of La Perouse and to Apia to meet Robert Louis Stevenson, to land in Baron Corvo’s Venice and again in A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the company of William Shakespeare or to Ethiopia to embrace Arthur Rimbaud.

It then continues with Parzival, Hermann Hesse and Moby Dick, Rasputin and Jack London, and continues in flight with Saint Exupéry. There will be no shortage of literary references toAmerica: from the South with Jorge Luis Borges, Robert Arlt and Leopoldo Lugones to the North with James Oliver Curwood, Zane Grey and Kenneth Roberts who were so influential in the creation of Wheeling, a masterpiece that engaged Pratt for almost his entire artistic life.

Hours: Daily from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Hugo Pratt's imagery on display in Recanati, with more than 60 original plates and reproductions

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