Matera celebrates cinema and comics with two exhibitions dedicated to Diabolik and Renato Casaro

The Museum of Palazzo Lanfranchi in Matera opens on Sunday, October 2, 2022, two exhibitions dedicated to the world of cinema and comics: Diabolik: Enigma at the Museum of Palazzo Lanfranchi and My Name is Renato Casaro.

It is due to the creative genius of sisters Angela and Luciana Giussani that the Diabolik comics were born. The first Diabolik film by Manetti Bros. is loosely based on the third episode of the saga released in 1963, in which the first meeting between Eva Kant and Diabolik was narrated. It was not a linear transposition from comic book plates to film, but an interpretation enriched with new scenes, settings and dialogues, which deserved, in turn, to become a comic book story, moving from paper to film and from film to paper. At the Palazzo Lanfranchi exhibition, original plates of the graphic novel based on the film by Manetti Bros will be presented, thanks to the Matera Film Festival, in collaboration with the National Museum of Matera and the Astorina publishing house.

The opening will be attended by illustrators Giulio Giordano and Salvatore Cuffari, Matera National Museum director Annamaria Mauro and Matera Film Festival creative director Silvio Giordano. The exhibition will be open daily until Nov. 7, 2022.

Until March 31, 2022, on the other hand, the exhibition Il mio nome è Renato Casaro (My Name is Renato Casaro), the result of a collaboration between the National Museum of Matera, the Veneto Regional Museums Directorate, the Tapirulan Association and the Matera Film Festival, will be on view at the same venue. Curated by Chiara Matteazzi and Fabio Toninelli, the exhibition aims to celebrate Renato Casaro (Treviso, 1935) through one hundred works including originals and posters made from the 1950s to the present.

Casaro was also the author of the poster for Mario Bava ’s film Diabolik shot in 1968, and for this occasion the artist has re-presented a new version of that famous original sketch that has been lost. Considered among the most important, influential and innovative Italian film poster artists, Casaro has created thousands of works dedicated to the seventh art during his long career, becoming very popular abroad as well. He has worked with the world’s greatest directors, such as Quentin Tarantino, Bernardo Bertolucci, Sergio Leone, James Cameroon, and David Lynch.

The exhibition and catalog were conceived as a tour through which the public is accompanied by Casaro himself through the history of his art and professional activity. The narrative, enlivened also by the use of anecdote, intersects with levity and pleasure with themes such as the relationship between the artist and the patron, between the processes of artistic creation and industrial rhythms and strategies, new technologies, and the evolution of public taste.

For info: www.museonazionaledimatera.it

Matera celebrates cinema and comics with two exhibitions dedicated to Diabolik and Renato Casaro

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