
Event |
Fellini: Circus of Light
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Date |
12 Nov 2015 – 13 Feb 2016
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Time |
Mon to Fri: 10am – 5pm Sat: 12 – 5pm *Closed on Sundays and Public Holidays
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Venue |
ADM Gallery School of Art, Design and Media Nanyang Technological University 81 Nanyang Drive Singapore 637458
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Free Admission
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The exhibition Fellini:
Circus of Light is an introduction to works of the film director
Federico Fellini (1930 – 1993) that unveils critical aspects of the Italian
maestro’s universe. Known as one of the most influential filmmakers of 20th
century European cinema, Fellini is celebrated for his signature flair that
combines fantasy and flamboyance within the social realities of post World War
II Italy. His approach to humanism is based on his personal experience, blended
with fictional narratives.
ADM Gallery 1 features
an immersive environment based on one of Fellini’s closest themes – the
circus. Dedicated to Fellini’s film protagonists, the gallery highlights
the many characters in Fellini’s world, drawn from his classics such as La
Strada (1954), 8½ (1963), Juliet
of the Spirits (1965), Fellini Satyricon (1969), The Clowns (1971),
Amarcord (1973), Fellini’s Casanova (1976), Intervista (1987) among
others.
ADM Gallery 2 showcases more than
50 works from the collection of the Fellini Foundation for the Cinema,
comprising of photographs, movie posters and original drawings that document
Fellini’s vast oeuvre. Like pentimento seen in fading frescos that
reveal traces of earlier work processes, this presentation is designed as a
space that symbolises a labyrinth in light and shadow, and suggests a symbiosis
between the grotesque and the sublime, and the sacred and the profane.
Fellini: Circus of Light is the collective result of many
artists from ADM, practising in the disciplines of fashion, graphic, product,
sound and visual effects design, as well as film and puppetry, working together
to uncover the complexity of one of most compelling auteurs of the 20th
century.
Visit the Fellini: Circus of Light digital archive for more resources on the exhibition including the exhibition catalogue, detailed filmography, articles, photographs, and event collaterals.
About the Fellini Foundation
The Fellini Foundation for film, established 2001 in Sion, owns the
largest collection in the world related to Federico Fellini and thousand other
directors. These 15,000 documents, including drawings, photographs, scripts,
letters, posters, artifacts, costumes, production stuff and press releases,
were presented by the Fellini Foundation in fifty exhibitions and events in
Paris (Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume), Rome (Macro), Venice (Palazzo
Benzon), Milan (Gallery Cartiere Vannucci), Madrid and Barcelona (la Caixa
Centres), Moscow (House photo), New York (Center548 ), Toronto, Rio de Janeiro
and Sao Paulo (Instituto Moreira Salles), in Switzerland, Lausanne (Musée de
l'Elysée) and Sion where the foundation is based and has its cultural center.
The Fellini Foundation has edited 25 publications including two books and
monographs published by Gallimard in Paris. The Fellini Foundation established
a cultural network in Switzerland and around the world between different
partners sharing its cultural purposes. This project was presented to several
international institutions, including the European Centre of Culture (CEC) in
Geneva which supports our activities. This network of partners is far beyond
the field of cinema and also relates to the art. Two partnerships have been
concluded in 2012 with the Ludwig Museum Koblenz and Deutsch Museum, museum for
Modern and Contemporary Art in Belmont-sur-Lausanne, which offers one of the
best exhibition spaces in Switzerland. Finally, through these partnerships with
the Cinémathèque Suisse, the Musée de l'Elysée, the Cinémathèque de France, the
Historical Archives of cinema in Rome, Archives cinema of Cinemazero cultural
center in Pordenone, la Maison d’Ailleurs in Yverdon/Switzerland, the Loubeau
Brothers’ Collection in Paris, Fellini Foundation can also rely on more than
his own collection to produce exhibitions about cinema.