Great success for the exhibition "Fellini at work" and 'Fellini's drawings from the Book of Dreams' opened on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the death of the Master from Rimini and open to the public until January 20,  the day of his birthday.
The exhibitions are part of the initiatives dedicated to Fellini and included in "Fellinianno 2013".


The exhibition 'Fellini all'opera' (Fellini at work) is set in the suggestive spaces of Galli Theatre, entitled to the composer Amintore Galli and now under renovation.
The set-up is by the designer Mario Brattella with the collaboration of Erasmo Massetti and Giuseppe Ricci’s archival researches. The aim is to transform the spaces and the main architectural elements of the theatre (such as foyers, stairs, and the Ressi room) into scenes recollecting “fellinian” visions and dreams, a sort of a great magic lantern.
Inside this surprising form, interpreters and artists of images, sounds and words re-write an re-invent photos, books, costumes and images, in a series of actions whose main characters are the artists themselves and their works: “Federico Fellini. I libri” by Rosita Copioli; “Unfinished Fellini” by Marco Bertozzi, Massimo Salvucci and Andrea Felli; the kinematictriptych by David Loom; “Le parti non vere” by Diego Zuelli; the project “Il visionario è l’unico vero realista/2” by Ambra Galassi, Giacomo De Luca, Andrea Marini, Stefano Aguzzini, Andrea Felli and Angela Piegari.

kinematictriptych
figurative installation
Conception, shootings, edition, original musics, construction and set-up by David Loom

It is a self-built electronic device, made up by 100 original microfilms which converge in a circular cinematographic triptyque, resembling a dreamlike merry-go-round where light and mirrors lead visions and animated scenery in a Pindaric flight. The modus operandi and the dreamlike Fellini’s phantasmagorical imagery.become the incentive and the suggestion for other personal and visionary re-interpretations, in a work where the known places become some other things and the fiction become credible. The executive ability of one person only playfully meditates on the artistic action and the intellectual vivacity of a character who was able to inspire loads of generation in the world.

about kinematictriptych
David Loom
Some notes, preparatory annotations and pictures of the making of kinematictriptych

Federico Fellini. I libri
video e set-up by Rosita Copioli
The video tells how and where the books enters Fellini’s movies. Starting from passions and meetings, it analyses eleven movies focusing on their relationship with literature: Il miracolo (1948), Il bidone (1955), La dolce vita (1959), Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio (Boccaccio ’70 episode, 1962), Toby Dammit (episode from Tre passi nel delirio, 1968), Fellini Satyricon (1969), Il Casanova by Federico Fellini (1976), Prova d’orchestra (1979), E la nave va (1983), Intervista (1988), La voce della luna (1990).

All Fellini’s books exposed there come from his library in Corso Italia in Rome and now belong to Francesca Fabbri Fellini. They document Fellini’s relationship with those writers who have been an inspiration for his movies, or those who were his own friends, and with the figures who defended and fed his imagination, from Carl Gustav Jung to Ernst Bernhard. Moreover, these books also reveal Fellini’s interests, such as detective stories, fantasy, mythology, psychology, psycanalysis, esoterism, oriental religions, circus shows, variety shows, cartoon. Most of all, each one of them shows his confidence in the symbols which inhabit his own dreams.

Le parti non vere
Video installation by Diego Zuelli
“Le parti non vere” refers to Fellini’s typical interlarding the reality of the narrated parts of his movies with memories and petrifying inventions of both characters and directors. Some forms, inspired to possible elements appearing in the movies, are built by computer design 3d and are shown through framings and settings which seem to be in contrast because of a cause/effect relationship and a spatial dislocation, or in a sort of backstage and photos on stage. Diego Zuelli examine the computer design 3d effort to verisimilitude and adhesion to the reality and, in contrast with this, its own fiction, present even in its own making. The title of the video simply describes the images, leaving to the spectator the task “not” to guess which are the non-true parts (“le parti non vere”).

Unfinished Fellini
Conception and direction by Marco Bertozzi
Shooting and editing by Massimo Salvucci
Music and sounds by Andrea Felli
A found footage movie realised with the documentary materials by Rai Teche and the photos by Davide Minghini, taken on the set of Amarcord and kept in the photo archive in the Municipal Library of Rimini. “Unfinished Fellini” mixes movie frames and pictures in order to offer a poetic evocation of the Maestro from Rimini. The result is a narration of a non-stop work in which Fellini plunges and by which he is totally absorbed. Like some construction sites, his set become his natural habitat, and also a unique experience for the troupe and all those who happen to live them. A magic and whispered atmosphere that the reuse of “Unfinished Fellini” tries to re-offer. A cross-eyed vision created to evoke something indissoluble but not suddenly perceivable: the relationship between the Maestro and his boroughs, Rimini and Cinecittà. That’s why Fellini and his troupe are always on scene, ready to immortalize the eternal coming and going of a personal cosmogony, the eternal show by the most genial “citizen of the cinematograph” Italy has ever had.

Il visionario è l’unico vero realista/2
Project by Angela Piegari and Andrea Felli
visual design by Ambra Galassi and Giacomo De Luca - Officina Otomops
motion graphic by Andrea Marini for Officina Otomops
music and sounds by Andrea Felli
mix e mastering by Andrea Felli - Farmhouse Studio, Rimini
sculptor Stefano Aguzzoni
A dreamlike space dedicated to the great director from Rimini: the world seen through his eyes, totally engaged by the images and the sounds, in order to explore the “fellinian” un/reality. The space is animated by lights and shadows, while words and sounds give life to a poetic and fascinating narration, which interlaces mystery and reality, tragedy and comedy. The installation “Il visionario è l’unico vero realista/2”, from an idea by Angela Piegari and Andrea Felli, allows the public to enter the language, the sounds and the visions thanks to which Fellini was able to turn reality into imagination and imagination into reality. Other people who participated to the artistic production are Ambra Galassi and Giacomo De Luca – Officina Otomops, Stefano Aguzzoni created the sculpture, Andrea Marini the motion graphics and the sounds are by Andrea Felli. Thanks to the collaboration of Marco Bertozzi, the installation was enriched with rare and precious materials.

Rimini, Teatro galli in Piazza Cavour
Time: 4pm – 10pm; closed on Mondays


Till January 30th it is also open to the public the exhibition “I disegni del Libro dei Sogni” (Fellini's drawings from the Book of Dreams), an exhibition born from an idea by Felice Laudadio, the director od Bif&st in Bari, and by Francesca Fabbri Fellini, the Maestro’s nephew. The exposition shows one of the countless possible ways of immersion in that fascinating abyss of images, feelings and suggestions represented by Federico Fellini’s Book of Dreams (Libro dei Sogni), which is permanently exposed at the City Museum.

Rimini, Palazzo Podestà (Sala civica), Piazza Cavour
Opening hours :  from 4pm to 10 pm. Closed on Mondays


On Monday 20th January 2014, on Fellini's birthday Anniversary, special opening for the two exhibitions: from 4 om to 10 pm and a special projection of the film Che strano chiamarsi Federico (Italia, 2013. 90') by Ettore Sola in Rimini Film Archives (via Gambalunga 27) at 9.00pm

Free Entrance