news release Italian Cultural Institute 686 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10012 Tel. 212.879.4242 Fax 212.861.4018 email: [email protected] ITALIAN FICTION IN NEW YORK I COLORI DELLA GIOVENTÙ – THE COLORS OF YOUTH MARCH 20, 2006 - 6:00 p.m.
The Italian Cultural Institute of New York in collaboration with RAI Fiction is honored to present the Italian TV Film, I colori della gioventù (The colors of youth), directed by Gianluigi Calderone, starring Andrea Di Stefano, Christiane Filangieri, Emilio Bonucci, and Valentina Sperli. This is a first of a series of three events, which will take place also at Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò with Edda (March 21, 6:00 pm) and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York with Bartali (March 22, 6:30 pm). I colori della gioventù was produced by Goodtime Enterprise for RAI Fiction. The screening will be in Italian with English subtitles, lasting 100 min. Claudio Angelini, Director of IIC and Rosa Lee Goldberg, Director of Performa will deliver the opening remarks. Agostino Saccà, General Director of RAI Fiction, will also participate in the presentation at the IIC at 6:00 p.m. Agostino Saccà has spent almost his entire life professional career at RAI, Italy’s public television and radio broadcaster. He started out at RAI as a journalist, and worked his way up through the ranks, finding preferentiality in the creative and practical side of programming. He was deputy director of RAI-2, director of RAI-1, and finally appointed General Director of RAI in March 2002, succeeding in balancing the budget and improving programming. In his current post, directing the TV-series office, he has confirmed his dy-namism and editorial intuition in a European perspective that valorizes Italy’s historic heritage and creativity. Rosa Lee Goldberg pioneered the study of performance art. A graduate of the Courtland Institute of Art, London, she was director of the Royal College of Art Gallery in London, and curator of the Kitchen Center for Video, Music, and Performance in New York. In 1990 she organized “Six Evenings of Performance” as part of the acclaimed exhibition “High and Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Au-
thor of Performance: Live Art Since 1960 (1998) and Laurie Anderson (2000), and a fre-quent contributor to Artforum and other magazines, she teaches at New York University.
The movie is a celebration of the artistic current called Futurism, the most extraordinary Italian génie’s expression of the early twentieth century, that influenced, both ethically and aesthetically, culture and manners of the time. One of the leading figures of this ar-tistic movement is named Umberto Boccioni. The colors of youth explores Boccioni’s life, in order to show his artistic and human vicissitudes at the dawn of the artistic movement. The film covers an eight-year-period years in the artist’s life. At the age of twenty-six he was a young and unknown artist at the start of an uncertain career. His meeting with Marinetti, founder and theorist of the movement, led to a fruitful collaboration. With fel-low artists Carrà and Severini, success comes with the publication of the Futurist Mani-festo. This story of love, World War I, and destiny are set against the beautiful back-ground of Trieste and Gorizia, two magnificent coastal pearls of the northeast Adriatic Sea. Mainly this peculiar set (two major locations and the territory nearby) has been cho-sen in order to maintain a high historical fidelity. In the 1920s and 1930s the term Futurism was loosely used to describe a wide variety of aggressively modern styles in art and literature after the Italian poet-novelist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti coined the term in 1909 for a movement founded and led by himself. Futurism was the first deliberately organized, self-conscious art movement of the twenti-eth century. It quickly spread to France, Germany, Russia and the Americas, appealing to
all who had tired of romanticism, decadence and sentimentality, desirous of something more vigorous and robust, something in keeping with the Machine Age. Speed, noise, ma-chines, transportation, communication, information… and all the transient impressions of life in the modern city intoxicated Marinetti and his followers. They despised tame, bour-geois virtues and tastes, and above everything else, loathed the cult of the past. One Ital-ian critic labeled them “art wise guys” calling them “the caffeine of Europe.” In a series of manifestos designed to shock and provoke the public, they formulated styles of paint-ing, music, sculpture, theatre, poetry, architecture, cooking, clothing, and furniture. The manifestos vividly preserve the flavor of the movement. They still provoke, irritate, and amuse while opening endless possibilities still under exploration today.
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