by Valerio Viale

On November 2, 1975, the Italian intellectual, poet, novelist, filmmaker – in a word: Artist in capital letter – Pier Paolo Pasolini, was brutally murdered in Ostia, coastal area near Rome. Forty years later, the Italian Cultural Institute in L.A., remembered the tragedy, demonstrating how much this iconic personality is still deeply rooted in our collective memory.

Following a compelling conversation between LA-based artist, Nicola Verlato (a native of Verona), author of Hostia, an ongoing figurative tribute to Pasolini, and Gian Maria Annovi, Assistant Professor of French and Italian and Gender Studies at USC, I've had the wonderful opportunity to chat with Nicola, thus further exploring his fascinating aesthetics.

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Fonte: L'italo-Americano