DARIO ARGENTO -The Exhibit

The Museo Nazionale del Cinema and Solares Fondazione delle Arti present the first major exhibition dedicated to a master of cinema: director, screenwriter and producer Dario Argento.

DARIO ARGENTO – THE EXHIBIT — hosted at the Mole Antonelliana — is curated by Domenico De Gaetano and Marcello Garofalo, in tribute to the genius and work of the filmmaker, a visionary master of the thriller. The exhibition offers a chronological journey through his entire production, from his debut with The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970) to his latest work Dark Glasses (2022), recently presented at the Berlin Film Festival in the Special Gala section.

For the first time, an exhibition project creates a complete and articulated visual discourse on the imagery that the Roman director has brought to the screen over the course of his fifty-year journey through the unsettling territories of nightmare.

The works on display come from the collections of the Museo Nazionale del Cinema, the Photographic Archive of the Cineteca Nazionale – Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, and numerous private collectors, with important contributions from film professionals such as Sergio Stivaletti, special effects artist on many of Argento’s films from Phenomena in 1985 onwards; Luigi Cozzi, Argento’s close collaborator since the beginning of his career; Franco Bellomo, Pupi Oggiano, Gabriele Farina and Carlo Rambaldi, one of the world’s leading special effects artists.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a richly illustrated catalogue published by Silvana Editoriale and by a complete retrospective at Cinema Massimo.

The exhibition DARIO ARGENTO – The Exhibit is organised under the patronage of the MIC – Italian Ministry of Culture.