event
Tuesday 15 January 2019 6.30 PM - 8.00 PM
Collection
MAXXI’s Collection of Art and Architecture represents the founding element of the museum and defines its identity. Since October 2015, it has been on display with different arrangements of works.
Matteo Fato, L’avventura del giglio selvatico, 2018.
Courtesy Monitor, Rome - Lisbon
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An extraordinary and ruthless fable that pulls no punches
During their lifetimes, the philosopher Kierkegaard and the writer Andersen exchanged few words and few compliments. While Andersen was increasingly famous and highly praised as an author of fables in Denmark and elsewhere, Kierkegaard was secretly working on his own style of fable: severe, inexorable, investigating, even for children, the concept of anxiety. L’avventura del giglio selvatico is one of these extraordinary, anomalous fables contrasting with the kings and princesses of the tradition, with Andersen’s ugly duckling and little mermaid. Kierkegaard, however, never actually published a book of fables; Gianni Garrera has traced among Kierkegaard’s writings this hidden fable, now published by Quodlibet and illustrated by Matteo Fato with stark, spare drawings.
Introduced by
Bartolomeo Pietromarchi Director, MAXXI Arte
Speakers
Matteo Fato artist
Gianni Garrera musical philologist and translator
Giuseppe Garrera art historian, collector and bibliophile
An event in collaboration with Monitor Roma