Book presentation
In Kantor… un piccolo pugno di dolenti commedianti by Maurizio Buscarino
December 10 2019, 6.30pm
Free entry, subject to availability
Maurizio Buscarino, one of the most prestigious photographers in Italy, presents his latest book In Kantor (Florence, La Casa Usher, 2018) in a meeting with Laura Caretti, professor of History of Theater and Performing Arts at the University of Siena and Professor of Anthropology of Performance, Marzia Loriga, historical actress of Teatr Cricot 2 of Tadeusz Kantor, Francesco Zanot, critic, curator and professor of photography at some of the most important national and international training institutions. Joining through video is Moni Ovadia, famous actor, playwright and writer among the most appreciated in Italy. “With the gesture of the hand he pushed everything to the edges as if to form a fence of illusion, but inside, in the center, he would make burst, from darkness to light, that handful of sorrowful comedians, in a real exhibition, as in the cruel dance of the bear in the old squares, the shameful side of the theater [...]. Very rarely I felt so absorbed that I lost that control which I have to keep in front of those who photograph [...]. He himself announced the daily risk of stepping into the scene and the anguish that we experience when we really realize we are alive: alive, in the light of the pathetic and enchanting path between the dark from which we emerge and the dark towards which we go ”. This is how Maurizio Buscarino describes his first meeting in 1978 in a relationship destined to last until the end, with the protagonist of this volume. Tadeusz Kantor, painter, set designer, creator of plastic works, incomparable theatrical genius who, says Buscarino, “guarded against the illusion and fiction, the magma of values, facing the epic and tragic signs and symbols of the century, that twentieth century that he had crossed and was surrounded by ".
Maurizio Buscarino (Bergamo, 1944). Since 1973 he has produced an impressive work on contemporary theater and, at the same time, a tenacious and singular representation of his vision of the world, offering wonderful images from the European, American and Oriental theater, from Jerzy Grotowski to Tadeusz Kantor, from the Odin Teatret to Eimuntas Nekrosius, from the Kabuki Theater to the Teatro nelle Carceri, from the Research Theater to the Lyric Theater, from the marginal theatricality to the institutional one. In his photographs, each figure appears as a protagonist, placed in a landscape studded by the great figures of the last century, along with a multitude of strangers. They all appear to be passing on the stage of existence, each in their own strong uniqueness, but all marked by a common belonging: the awareness of the daily risk of entering the scene, to announce ones disappearance. Buscarino received the Bolaffi Prize for Photography in 1979 and the Theater Critics Award awarded by the National Association of Theater Critics in 2003.
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