Marcello Mastroianni stars in an Ara Pacis Museum exhibition.

From October 26, 2018 to February 17, 2019, the Ara Pacis Museum will hold an exhibition dedicated to the famous actor Marcello Mastroianni.
A life in parentheses. This is how Marcello Mastroianni liked to define his life. Parentheses between one set and another, between one stage and another, along a career made up of an endless number of films, shows, and characters. The exhibition traces Mastroianni’s extraordinary career. From his beginnings with Riccardo Freda in 1948 to his collaboration with Federico Fellini, whose alter ego he became. More than a hundred films between the 1940s and the end of the 1990s, and many international awards: threeOscar nominations for Best Actor, two Golden Globes, eight David di Donatello awards, two awards for Best Male Actor at the Cannes Film Festival and two Coppa Volpi awards at the Venice Film Festival.
An actor who has entered powerfully into the collective imagination, identified by his simple profile (think of the icon created by Fellini in 8 ½), but about whom in reality there is still much to discover. And to go deep into the discovery, as curator Gian Luca Farinelli observes, we must heel his filmography as a mirror of his own life.

And this is precisely the path that the Marcello Mastroianni exhibition will follow, starting with a distinctive trait of his personality: that humility that made him love other actors, figures in a pantheon that gathered Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn, John Wayne, Greta Garbo, Jean Gabin, Louis Jouvet, Vittorio De Sica, Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Amedeo Nazzari, Totò, Assia Noris, and in which triumphed, not surprisingly, Fred Astaire, an actor capable, as Marcello would later be, of acting with his whole body (we recall one of the key sequences played by Mastroianni: the one in which he goes wild in the dance in Le notti bianche, the Luchino Visconti film that would mark his recognition as an “important” actor).

Marcello Mastroianni’s entire life and career are recounted in this exhibition that brings together his finest portraits, memorabilia and traces of his films and performances, alternating images and stories and immersing the viewer in what was and still is the best-known face of Italian cinema. It is a journey through writings, testimonials, reviews, as well as a rare photographic apparatus that portrays the actor as we are not used to remembering him, on stage, next to the other great names that made the history of Italian theater, from Vittorio Gassman to Rina Morelli, from Paolo Stoppa to Eleonora Rossi Drago.

Cinema and theater, the two souls of one of the most important actors of our cinema, told in constant dialogue thanks to the materials preserved by the Cineteca di Bologna, Mastroianni himself and numerous other archives (from that of theIstituto Luce to that of the Rai) with which this privileged itinerary has been built, which will accompany the viewer through fifty years of Italian culture and costume. For information and reservations you can visit the official Ara Pacis website.

Pictured: one of Marcello Matroianni’s photos on display at the exhibition.

Marcello Mastroianni stars in an Ara Pacis Museum exhibition.

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