According to the ICOM (International Council of Museums) the 5 functions of a museum are: research, acquisition, conservation, communication, exhibition. What could a Pier Paolo Pasolini museum look like?
In a case we could put his first poem: of those verses remains the memory of two words "rosignolo" and "verzura". It is 1929. While Mussolini signs the Lateran Pacts, Antonio Gramsci begins to write the Quaderni dal Carcere. And so on, as Vincenzo Cerami says: "If we take all of Pasolini's work from the first poem he wrote when he was 7 years old until the film Salò, his last work, we will have a portrait of Italian history from the end of the years of fascism until the mid-70s. Pasolini told us what has happened in our country in all these years".
Ascanio Celestini leads us into a hypothetical PASOLINI MUSEUM that, through the testimonies of those who knew it, but also of those who imagined, loved and hated it, is composed starting from the questions: what is the highlight of the Pasolini Museum? What object should we look for? What do we have to do to keep it? What can we communicate through him? And finally: how should we expose it?
