2024-10-16 00:09:00
Time.news – Opens today at the National Cinema Museum in Turin the first exhibition in Italy dedicated to TV series. It is titled “Serialmania. Narrative imagery. From Twin Peaks to Squid game”, edited by Luca Beatrice and Luigi Mascheroni. Set up on the reception floor of the Mole Antonelliana, the exhibition itinerary traces the very close ties, influences, connections, affinities and differences between cinema and TV series from the 90s to today, underlining how cinema, over the years, has had to face steps of profound genetic modification necessary for a continuously expanding and evolving medium.
The exhibition crosses the chronological line with that of the themes and presents a selection of twelve titles: The Secrets of Twin Peaks, Friends, Breaking Bad, House of Cards, ER Doctors on the Front Line, The Simpsons, Sex and the City, The Crown, Game of Thrones, Squid Game, Crime Novel and Mare Fuori. Each representative of a genre, they were chosen from among the countless possible ones and among the most tellable, those that can best hold up “off the screen” to become a three-dimensional object and ignite new connections, sometimes unexpected.
Scattered between shots and sequences, along the exhibition itinerary, there are many references to art: Gregory Crewdson’s photographs of the American suburbs even seem like quotes from Twin Peaks, Mario Schifano is a sort of anti-hero in 1970s Rome, the protagonist in A crime novel, the images of Alejandro Cartagena’s Car Poolers strongly recall the misadventures of Breaking Bad.
And there is no shortage of explicit quotes: in Squid Game directors and screenwriters have identified a work by Escher from the 1950s as a precise iconographic source to exemplify the anguish of the dystopian future. “This exhibition well represents the objectives of the National Cinema Museum: to highlight all the declinations of cinema and hypothesize its future developments – explains Enzo Ghigo, president of the National Cinema Museum – it was time for the museum to dedicate an exhibition to the TV series, which have now forcefully entered every home. Luca Beatrice and Luigi Mascheroni, with their curatorial imprint, have expertly mixed languages, visual art and contents, trying to tell the imagination created by the TV series and the new way of enjoying narration”.
“With an extraordinary effort in terms of innovation, writing quality and production investments, TV series have demonstrated how, like cinema, television narration is capable of profoundly influencing the public’s customs and cultural consumption – they state Luca Beatrice and Luigi Mascheroni, curators of the exhibition – the great series do not limit themselves to telling stories, but dictate fashions, introduce new ways of saying, impose characters that remain in the collective imagination, redefining and giving new life to classic film genres”.
“However, there is one thing that television series has changed – they continue – the concept of time. In a continuous flow of episodes, without a real beginning and a real end, the narrative structure has expanded infinitely. Each series has more and more episodes, seasons, protagonists, with a single objective, which cinema has never had: to keep you attached to the screen, transforming pleasure into loyalty, into a mania”. “Cinema fabricates dreams, TV series generate addiction” they conclude. The exhibition can be visited until February 24th.
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