Volevo nascondermi (Hidden Away)
May 22 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
The Museo in collaboration with the Leonardo da Vinci Society
on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Antonio Ligabue‘s death presents
Volevo nascondermi (Hidden Away)
A 2020 film by Giorgio Diritti
In Italian with English subtitles – Starring Elio Germano, 2021 Donatello Prize winner
Antonio Ligabue, or “Toni,” was the son of an emigrant Italian mother, deported back to Italy from Switzerland where he spent his childhood. Meeting the sculptor Renato Marino Mazzacurati was his chance to return to painting, the beginning of a redemption story. “El Tudesc,” as people called him, was a lonely and often mocked and humiliated man. He became an imaginative artist who painted a fantasy world of tigers, gorillas, and jaguars on the banks of the Po river. Ligabue’s art is a “fairy tale” from which a wealth of diversity emerges. His work over time has proved to be a gift to humanity.
Free for Leonardo & Museo members
$10 General Admission
