20 June - 20 July, 2019 BAZIS project space CENTRUL DE INTERES, Fabricii de Chibrituri 9, 1th floor, Cluj-Napoca |
Nagy Daniel
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Daniel Nagy’s exhibition of portraits is based on the script of an unrealized film by Pier Paolo Pasolini: Saint Paul. It is a modern interpretation of Saul/Paul's story transferred into our times (Pasolini's time in the original script). From the script of the film the artist Daniel Nagy kept only the parts with Pasolini's proposals. The environment in which Saul/Paul lived is the land of today’s Syria and Turkey. The equivalent of St. Paul from the script is, in the case of the present project, Paolo Dall'Oglio (b.1954), Italian Jesuit priest and peace activist that left Rome for Damascus in the 80's. Near Damascus he recovered an old monastery from the 6th century, Deir Mar Musa. As he was a polyglot he tried to build symbolical bridges between religions and cultures. In 2013 he was taken hostage, brought to Raqqa and beheaded. The rest of the portraits are linking the two stories together despite the centuries separating the characters: Nero, the Roman Emperor as a symbol of destruction, Kofi Annan the peace maker, Vasily Vereshchagin, Russian painter and war critic, Count von Moltke, Prussian field marshal. Paolo Dall'Oglio (1954 - 2013 ?) Italian Jesuit priest. |
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Exhibition view |
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