Fernando Mastropasqua
UN TEATRO DI PEZZENTI

Description

The Commedia dell’Arte was a wandering theater, a being in the world in despair, with no paradises to wait, it was a collective thinking that came from the earth and imagined life as nothing more than a patch of misery and misfortune.
A reconstruction of the scenarios of this mysterious phenomenon, which created forms of art out of misery, is proposed, shadowed in the engravings of the Fossard Collection and in the frescoes of Trausnitz’s Narrentreppe, both from the end of the 16th century.
The memory of the art of comedians, which the documents give us, is due to the passion for the theater of Henry III of France and William of Bavaria. If the first was satisfied with an album of ‘photographs’, the second claimed to enclose, for eternity, the beloved actors in the stones of his Castle, anticipating Morel’s invention.