Œdipe. L’abîme de l’âme

Group show at the Italian Institute for Culture in Paris

January 26, 2024

Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Parigi, Paris, FR

The Italian Cultural Institute in Paris is showing the new exhibition “Œdipe. L’abîme de l’âme” from 26 January to 26 April 2024. In addition to works by Italian artists, Hermann Nitsch’s Oedipus head will also be on display.

More than fifteen contemporary artists, each in their own language and poetics, explore the figure of Oedipus and confront him with one of the most emblematic figures of Western theatre and culture. Oedipus’ path to self-knowledge and the discovery of truth is an evolution characterised by revelations worthy of a thriller, illuminated by particular characters – the Sphinx, Tiresias, Creon, Jocasta – and shaken by real twists: the discovery that he is unwittingly the murderer of his own father, that he married his own mother just as unwittingly and that he has given birth to sons and daughters who are simultaneously sisters and brothers. The works in this exhibition dedicated to Oedipus at the Hôtel de Galliffet explore the fate of a man who is one of the most powerful, mysterious and tragic figures in Mediterranean and European culture..

The artists in exhibition are Matteo Basilé, Michele Ciacciofera, Marilù Eustachio, Silvia Giambrone, Emilio Isgrò, Cristina Martin, Giovanni Migliara, Hermann Nitsch, Mimmo Paladino, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Umberto Passeretti, Stefania Pennacchio, Alfredo Pirri, Vettor Pisani, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Stefano Ricci, Alfredo Romano and Nicola Toce.

Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Parigi
Hôtel de Galliffet, 50 rue de Varenne
75007 Paris
France
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