Il corpo di Pasolini: vita, morte, sopravvivenze

Starting from Pasolini’s analysis of football as the last sacred representation of contemporaneity, the essay aims to show how the body is Pasolini’s existential and poetic obsession and legacy. Through contemporary artists such as Benassi, Kentridge, Dumas, and Vezzoli, the élan vital of the Pasolinian corpo-corpus survives by translating itself into a visual guerrilla that, between bibliographic fascination and civil tension, introduces a new political vocation in the art world. It seems capable of extracting the Pasolinian legacy from the mythological system that surrounds it, but also of initiating an interrogation of the present that explores and shapes the pervasive disorder of the ongoing apocalypse.