Through a complete exhibition that includes his life and work, the National Ministry of Culture and the Italian Institute of Culture will honor the great filmmaker Federico Fellini.

"The centenary. Fellini in the world” is the name of the official Italian exhibition that will open this Friday 5 March at the Museum of Decorative Art (MNAD) and that will last until 2 of May.

The exhibition can be visited from Thursday to Sunday during the hours of 13 a 19 and only with ticket reservation.

During the tour, the public will appreciate unpublished photos, personal drawings, creative processes, original wardrobe, set design, scripts and scores, together with testimonies and anecdotes from Federico Fellini. All the material will be located in the temporary exhibition rooms and the main floor of the imposing Errazuriz Alvear Palace, headquarters of the MNAD.

The exhibition will arrive in our country after having been seen in Rome and other parts of Italy in 2020 and San Pablo.

In that context, Tristan Bauer the minister (and also a filmmaker) de Cultura de la Nación showed its pride in “receiving the official Italian sample of the great Federico Fellini” and added that the Italian “has been for many a turning point in the way of looking at cinema and art, and imagine life ".

The official added having discovered "the cinematographic art of the hand of Italian neorealism" and recalled: "I was a child and I was dazzled by those black and white films. One day ‘I vitelloni’ arrived, Alberto Sordi and that gang of friends who wander aimlessly around Rimini and its beaches. In this exhibition we re-visit his work and discover new edges of the Fellini world, and one more time, we warn its validity ".

The exhibition will also have a program of associated activities that, for eight weeks and from round tables, lectures and debates (via digital platforms and open to the public) will address the different facets of Fellini, his legacy and influence on the local culture.

Meanwhile, Donatella Cannova (Director of the Italian Institute of Culture of Buenos Aires), expressed that “this exhibition is a heartfelt tribute to the memory of an artist who, although very Italian, it has become a universal heritage ”.

The directive added: "Propose it in Year II of the Pandemic Era in Buenos Aires, with a joint effort from both sides of the Ocean, is a demonstration of the resilience of the world of culture, which translates into an invitation to the younger generations to approach or to return to approach a Master of the past, so that the memory thread is not broken and reset, as far as possible, the cultural fabric so severely tested by the phenomenon of health emergency in which we are still immersed ".

The Italian ambassador to our country, Giuseppe Manzo, expressed that "in this sample imagination and reality are mixed that, in the wonderful rooms of the Museum of Decorative Art, gives us the privilege of admiring original material, fruit of the Master's imagination ".

Finally, the director of the Museum of Decorative Art, Martin Marcos, emphasized that “Fellini was a visionary and a revolutionary of culture, of the image and sound of the twentieth century; and today, a 101 years after his birth, his figure is gigantic ".

In that context he added: "When the cinema, during the second postwar period, got excited about special effects, he reinvented the seventh art from the essential affections ".