描述
1995-2025, thirty years after Hugo Pratt’s death, the catalog of the exhibition dedicated to him at the Palazzo delle Papesse in Siena, curated by Patrizia Zanotti (Pratt’s historical collaborator) and Patrick Amsellem, is a unique opportunity to grasp his impressive relevance. An intense and adventurous life, among the most diverse physical and imaginary places, inspired his artwork, that drawn literature that still speaks to entire generations.
The volume, accompanied by unforgettable original strips, drawings and watercolors that go far beyond his most iconic character Corto Maltese, aims to ideally lead the reader through seven ‘doors’ that can be considered entrances and pathways to as many worlds of Hugo Pratt’s splendid imagery, an imagery populated by myths and stories that are at the roots of our culture, full of quotations and references to cinema and literature. A true journey that awakens in us a sense of adventure: the search for what is yet to come.
The essays and splendid images offered not only take us deep into Pratt’s best-known production, but also reveal the Master’s deep connection with his most beloved authors (from Homer to Stevenson, London, Conrad, Melville, Kipling, Twain), his attraction to cinema and Pop Art, without forgetting those “female geographies” that have given readers all over the world a splendid variety of female figures, autonomous heroines with strong personalities.
To conclude, the volume gives readers a complete adventure of Corto Maltese, Dream of a Midwinter Morning, reissued for the occasion with colors by Patrizia Zanotti… Happy reading!
