VIVA VARDA! Il cinema è donna

Bologna, Galleria Modernissimo till 10 January 2027 
Special opening  20-28 June, 10am-8pm 

A 1,200m2 journey exploring a unique figure in the history of cinema, art, photography, and political and cultural activism in both the 20th and 21st centuries. Films, photographs, installations, objects, and costumes: the Viva Varda! exhibition – curated by Florence Tissot, under the artistic direction of Rosalie Varda, and produced by the Cineteca di Bologna and La Cinémathèque française – bears witness to a multi-faceted, personal creative oeuvre encompassing painting, the Nouvelle Vague, Jacque Demy, theatre and cats, Fidel Castro, Jim Morrison, Jane Birkin, Catherine Deneuve, Marcello Mastroianni, Madonna, and Jean-Luc Godard. A globe-trotting artist, Varda’s career brought her international fame culminating with an honorary Oscar – the first ever awarded to a woman director. The exhibition is divided into sections dedicated to the relationship between Agnès and images (self-portraits, photography, painting, as well as her delight in unexpected juxtaposition), writing for the cinema (in particular her creation of profound and surprising female characters), the social and nomadic aspect of her films (her pleasure in documenting the world, political upheavals, and her cultural shifts), as well as her relationship with Italy.

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