15 artists for Dino Campana the cursed poet. The Pallavicini exhibition 22 Art Gallery of Ravenna – Carlo Franza’s blog

Who was Dino Campana? A cursed poet to the Charles Baudelaire, Cursed, opposed, tormented by everyone; who desperately seek love and understanding and finds nothing; who does not know and cannot live life with serenity because he feels life and his pain too strong; And everything strikes him; Everything agitates him.

Thursday 21 August 2025 at 18.30 at the exhibition space Pallavicini22 Art Gallery In viale Giorgio Pallavicini 22 in Ravenna, the collective dedicated to Dino Campana (1885-1923) edited by Aldo Saviniwith texts in the catalog of Aldo Savini and Barbara Betti. The exhibition “For Dino Campana, from Marradi to Ravenna”, who intends to celebrate the 140 years of the poet’s birth; It will remain set up until Saturday 30 August and will be open to the public From Thursday to Saturday weekdays from 17 to 19. Free admission. Finissage Saturday 30 August at 6.30 pm with the poetic show “Bitter sea water” by Giovanni Tonelli.

The exhibition. “For Dino Campana, from Marradi to Ravenna ”, edited by Aldo Savini, is the second exhibition event of a project dedicated to the relationship between poetry and visual image inaugurated last year at Centro Studi Campaniani “Enrico Consolini” by Marradi With the exhibition “At each poem to do the picture” that saw the participation of artists in most of the Romagna area. The poetic and literary writing of Dino Campana, decidedly visionary, stimulates the visual representation of the text by the artist who gives an interpretation according to his imagination and poetic and aesthetic sensitivity. THE 15 participating artists – Paola Babini, Martina Baldetti, Honorio Bravi, Laura Forghieri, Alice Iaquinta, Laura Medici, Alessandro Mercatali, Stefano Mercatali, Roberto Pagnani, Maurizio Pilò, Maurizio Rogai, Andrea Tampieri, Serena Venturelli, Federico Zanzi, Marisa Zattini – they freely chose a song taken from a poem or a literary text to relive it and translate it into the image by reaching a language personal expressive that goes from painting to photography and installation. Among all the works that of Marisa Zattini, an artist of clear fame.

Finissage with Giovanni Tonelli. Scholar of the poetry of Dino Campana and Dante for about 30 years, Giovanni Tonelli has presented the first show on Dino Campana at the Orazio Vecchi Music Institute in Modena in 2000. Many were followed by this, sometimes together with the “Compagnia degli Igresi”, a cultural association that is dedicated to the “Poetry Theater” with particular attention to the Italian classic authors. At the request of the Municipality of Brisighella (RA), in the suggestive outdoor setting of the ancient former convent of this compliance, in 2022 he organized the review dedicated to Dino Campana included in the events of the cultural season “Summer dream”.

In June 2024 he presented the show “Acqua di Mare Amaro” under the patronage of the Campaniani Centro Studi Enrico Consolini di Marradi, re -proposed in the same year in Venice by the Cavana dei Miracoli of Morgan O’Hara. Bitter sea water He was born at the request of Rodolfo Ridolfi. It is a wide selection of verses by the poet of Marradi who refer to the sea, constant reference in the Campanian poetics. In the center of Genoa, port of departures and returns, place of escapes to the unknown and return, place of dreams, suffocating alleys and claustrophobic and sudden openings, between sea and sky. A disturbing sea, full of charm and terror. No half measures, no half emotions.

Carlo Franza