The exhibition was produced thanks to the Federico Fellini Foundation, Culture Department of Emilia-Romagna Region, Comune di Rimini and Karibu Italy
Exhibition on the Italian National Day
The Embassy of Italy and the
Italian Cultural Institute in Nairobi
had the pleasure to present
an Exhibition:
Federico Fellini’s drawings depicting food
and
the execution of sound tracks by Italian composers by the
Young Nairobi Philharmonic Orchestra
at the Italian Ambassador’s Residence for the Italian National Day
Photo above:
2nd of June at the Italian Ambassador’s Residence in Nairobi, with Federico Fellini’s drawings depicting food. In collaboration with Regione Emilia Romagna – Culture Department of the Emiglia-Romagna Region.See other photos in the brochure below.
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The exhibition was produced thanks to the Federico Fellini Foundation, Culture Department of Emilia-Romagna Region, Comune di Rimini and Karibu Italy (Nairobi)
Food Depicted in Federico Fellini’s Drawings
Childhood, dreaming and food are at the root of all Fellini’s Work. The drawings in the exhibition have returned food to the same extraordinary world.
A memorable story by Tonino Guerra, published in “A tavola con Fellini” (At Table with Fellini), is further proof of this:
I’ve no idea how it happened, but whenever Federico put his fork down by the side of his bowl of spaghetti, a drop of sauce would always splash onto his tie. Eyes popping out of her head, Giulietta would start shouting at him.
But something worse happened as well. One morning we were about to leave Bar Canova in Piazza del Popolo when a waiter placed a basket of bread rolls filled with mortadella on the counter.
“You can’t not eat mortadella,” Federico told me.
“I’m full.”
“Me too… but mortadella is the taste of our childhood.”
“Buy one for us to share then.”
And that’s just what he did.
When I tried to break the roll in two, a piece of fat flew into the air and fell onto Fellini’s back. We went straight to his house to give the maid the jacket, but Giulietta was there.
She threw herself in the couch shouting:
“You’ve got to be the very first man in the world who’s managed to get grease on his back!”
Federico sat down ruefully next to her and said in a low voice.
“But there’s always a feeling of satisfaction to be the first to do something.”
“Il cibo nei disegni di Fellini” (Food in Fellini’s drawings) consists of 19 works of art produced by the Director at different stages of his career, not all of which were made to explain a scene or a costume to the people he was working with. A significant part of his artwork are drawings from the famous “Libro dei Sogni”, a diary of dreams Fellini kept for about thirty years.