September 10, 2015 – Director, screenwriter, editor, writer, and painter, Michelangelo Antonioni is one of the greatest figures in the history of cinema. And today, in Amsterdam, there is an exhibition at the Eye Film Institute Museum on the great Italian artist. The structure is entirely dedicated to the world of cinema that offers areas for temporary exhibitions and projections and is a center research hosting a large archive on cinema. The location will display, from Saturday September 12th to Sunday, January 17, 2016 the exhibition “Michelangelo Antonioni – Master of modern cinema.” As stated on the website of the Italian Institute of Culture, the exhibition at the Eye Film Institute Museum brings together a selection of many of Antonioni’s private documents, and allows to better understand his work. During the exhibition, every day one of Antonioni’s films will be screened, starting with ” “Il deserto rosso,” “Professione: reporter” “La notte”, “Blow up”, “Il grido”, and “La signora senza camelie” just to name a few. Antonioni (Ferrara, September 29, 1912 – Rome, July 30, 2007) is one of those exceptional authors who forever changed the language of film: with his trilogy L’avventura, La notte e L’eclisse, he has become one of the greatest innovators of 20th century cinema. The exhibition is curated by Dominique Païni – former director of the Cinémathèque Française – in partnership with Jaap Guldemond, Director-Curator of Exhibitions at the Eye, with the help of Maria Luisa Pacelli, Director of the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara, and Barbara Guidi , Chief Curator of the Modern Art Gallery of Ferrara – Museum Michelangelo Antonioni. (Gil)
