Rà di Martino, Carmelo Bene. Là dove muore, canta

Carmelo Bene. Là dove muore, canta

Rà di Martino

Publisher
Humboldt Books
Year
2023
ISBN
979-12-80336-06-4
Specifications
Paperback with dustjacket, sewn binding
17 x 24 cm
144 pages
Colour
Italian, English
Text by Carmelo Bene, Rà di Martino, Brizia Minerva, Chiara Valerio
Design by Francesca Biagiotti
Courtesy Archivio Carmelo Bene, Polo Biblio-museale di Lecce

Carmelo Bene. Là dove muore, canta is the work of the artist Rä di Martino as she comes to terms with the memory of Carmelo Bene (1937–2002), through his archive materials. A documentary heritage made up of videos, audios, photographs, manuscripts and some six thousand volumes from his own personal library, from which di Martino sets out to develop a cycle bringing Bene's figure and work back to life. Rä di Martino enters the phantasmagorical library of the actor and playwright, and examines books with which, as an obsessive reader, he had an osmotic relationship, annotating their pages. With a series of frontal photographic images, the artist focuses on the most studied pages, full of his scribbles and Post-its. She also goes through the actor's diaries, where he penned a work on Dracula that remained unfinished, and which the artist decided to photograph in its entirety.

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