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Book presentation
Carmelo Bene. Si può solo dire nulla
October 27 2023, 6.00pm
Free entry upon registration (subject to availability)
Published by Il Saggiatore in 2022, Si può solo dire nulla is the definitive collection of Carmelo Bene's interviews. A work that chases Bene's voice along forty years of his career in order to restore, through his public statements, the impossible autobiography of one of the most disruptive, transgressive and incatalogous figures of the 20th century.
We present the book with Federico Primosig, curator of the volume together with Luca Buoncristiano – among the leading Bene experts in Italy.
Si può solo dire nulla follows Carmelo Bene as he treads the boards all over Italy, hounded by an audience and a press that want to penetrate the mystery of a genius. In these pages Bene alternates between prophecies and critiques, anathemas and poems; he seeks self-promotion with the same gestures with which he makes art: he discusses and argues about immortality and soccer, literature and oblivion, sacred and gossip, because everything in his world is everything and nothing, existing without existing. For Bene “si può solo dire nulla” (‘one can only say nothing’), because this is the fate of all discourse: everything is on the scene only to be destroyed and forgotten forever.
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Running time 60'