Francesco Vezzoli. [English Ed.]

Conceived specifically for the space at Via Fogazzaro 36, Milan, the show comprises two parallel installations, both inspired by the work of the poet and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini.
The first installation will feature the reconstruction of an old fashion movie theater, where Vezzoli?s latest film will be screened non-stop. This work is directly inspired by one of Pasolini?s earliest films, Comizi d?Amore (Love Meetings, 1964), in which the director himself interviews some of the most prominent Italian intellectuals and movie stars, as well ordinary people, about their attitudes to such sexual ?perversions? as prostitution, adultery and homosexuality. The idea of recreating the atmosphere of Pasolini?s cinéma-vérité masterpiece will take concrete form in a sort of reality TV show, produced in accordance with the standardized criteria of a real television production, during which some of the most famous movie stars will discuss their attitudes to sexuality and even choose a possible partner in a perverse and ironical version of the program Blind Date.
The second installation involves the recreation of a ?ghost movie theater? with 120 Argyle chairs, designed in 1904 by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the seats of which ? embroidered by Vezzoli himself ? are adorned with portraits of Pasolini?s actors and actresses, and dotted with blood-red tears. The Argyle chair is a reference to the final scene of Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom (1975, Pasolini?s last movie), where it functions as a podium from which the main characters in the film gleefully watch the cruelest tortures. Opposite the 120 chairs, a huge embroidered tapestry reproduces the screen that Pasolini used to end all his movies.