Federico Fellini lands at Olbia airport. On two wheels. From December 4 to 31, the “Costa Smeralda” will host “La Dolce Vita di Federico Fellini e Leo Catozzo: tra sogno, magia e realtà”, dedicated to the great director.
Organized by the cultural association Il Leone e le Cornucopie, the artistic-documentary exhibition, with free admission, will be inaugurated on Wednesday at 11. "We are proud to have conceived and organized this initiative of high cultural value and international vocation, for the first time in Olbia at the airport, the gateway to the city, which sees many people transit here even during the Christmas period", says Tiziana Biscu, president of the cultural association Il Leone e le Cornucopie.
The curator of the exhibition, journalist Fabio Alescio, echoes this sentiment: “We started a research group a year ago because we wanted to present a retrospective on the master Fellini seen from a perhaps unusual perspective that starts with the selection of motorcycles, the true protagonists of his films, never chosen at random by the director but rather in some cases conceived and designed personally by him. In an ideal process we therefore came to study even the most unusual Fellini, the one that emerges from the deep human and professional partnership with Leo Catozzo”.
The exhibition
The exhibition offers an immersive journey into the world of Fellini, with two sections, the first of which, set up in the airport, arrivals side, is completely dedicated to nine iconic motorcycles and protagonists of the masterpieces of the director from Rimini and kindly provided by the Sidecar Museum of Cingoli.
The motorcycles are the result of decades of careful research and restoration, curated by film scholar Costantino Frontalini, owner of the Sidecar Museum and special guest at the exhibition inauguration on December 4th: among these, the Vespa from “La Dolce Vita” and the Harley-Davidson from “Amarcord” stand out.
In the second section, the exhibition highlights the deep professional and personal bond between Federico Fellini and Leo Catozzo, editor of his most significant films: for the occasion, the ArtPort Gallery will exhibit some materials from the private archive of his son Alberto, among which stand out two prototypes of the editing press, an ingenious invention and patent by Leo Catozzo that forever revolutionized the editing technique of the time, significantly reducing the production times of a film.
During the days of the exhibition, some evenings will be organised dedicated to the screenings of the two Oscar-winning films and to a concert by maestro Giandomenico Anellino of music taken from the soundtracks of the most famous films by the director and of Italian cinema.
