2023-11-08 16:42:36
Time.news – An exhibition to tell the story of the man, the teacher, the author of one of the best-known books of the 20th century. “Tolkien. Man, Professor, Author” is the exhibition hosted at the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art from next November 16 to February 11 next year. A journey that will allow enthusiasts and the general public to understand John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, creator of the famous epic of “Middle-earth”, an extraordinary connoisseur of the ancient world, fifty years after his death and the first Italian edition ofLo Hobbit‘.
The Roman exhibition, the first exhibition of this size ever dedicated to the writer in Italy, is conceived and promoted by the Ministry of Culture, with the collaboration of the University of Oxford, created by Create Organize Realize with the curatorship of Oronzo Cilli and the co- curation and organization by Alessandro Nicosia. Rome will be there first step of a path that will continue in 2024 in other Italian cities.
Compared to the large exhibitions held in Oxford (2018), Paris (2020) and Milwaukee (2022), which highlighted particular aspects of the English writer’s literary works, this one places Tolkien at the center of everything, telling the story of the man, the father and the ‘Friend; but also the academic, author of studies and publications that are still fundamental today in the study of Old and Middle English literature; and the narrator and sub-creator of the “Middle Earth“. There will also be space for everything he inspired in art, music and the world of comics.
Immersion in the universe he created is achieved through a complex exhibition itinerary including autograph manuscripts, letters, memorabilia, photographs and works of art inspired by the literary visions of a unique and multifaceted author. A man of his time, novelist, linguist and philologist, the Oxford professor is told in his artistic and human complexity. Particular importance is given to his relationship with Italy.
“I am in love with Italian, and I feel quite lost without the possibility of trying to speak it”, we read in one of his letters, and in the review there is no lack of testimonies of the trip to Venice and Assisi in 1955, as well as the many contacts , direct and indirect, with scholars and intellectuals of our country. There will also be room for old and new film adaptations, from the animated film by Ralph Bakshi to the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy by director Peter Jackson, capable of representing on the big screen one of the most ambitious and popular sagas of world literature, conquering 17 Oscar awards.
Many international institutions were involved in the process of collating the documentation: the Vatican Apostolic Archive, the Bibliothe’que Alpha of the University of Liège, the University of Reading, the Oratory of San Filippo Neri in Birmingham, the Venerable English College of Rome, the Tolkien Society, the Arnoldo and Alberto Mondadori Foundation, the Benedetto Croce Library Foundation, the Biella Civic Library, the Astrolabio-Ubaldini and Bompiani publishing houses, the Greisinger Museum of Jenins and Warner Bros Discovery.
The catalog accompanying the exhibition makes use of the contributions of Adriano Monti Buzzetti Colella, Giuseppe Pezzini, Emma Giammattei, Francesco Nepitello, Chiara Bertoglio, Gianluca Comastri, father Guglielmo Spirito, Fabio Celoni, Davide Martini, Roberta Tosi, Salvatore Santangelo, Stefano Giuliano, Claudio Mattia Serafin, Gianfranco de Turris, Paolo Paron and Domenico Dimichino.
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