Ciao Paolo!

Controversial figure Pier Paolo Pasolini, though best known as a filmmaker, was also a poet, essayist, philosopher, novelist, film theorist and historian. He was also an openly homosexual man in the very Catholic Italy of the ’60s and ’70s. Pasolini’s life is the subject of artist and curator John Di Stefano’s multidisciplinary exhibit Je me souviens on now at Articule.

Through books, archive photos, video and press clippings, Di Stefano, who lives in New Zealand, traces Pasolini’s numerous scandalous brushes with the press and struggles with his public sexual identity. The visual narrative and documentation reveal a deeply sensitive artist held captive by the rules of a culture unable to tolerate such flagrant disregard for its conventions (Pasolini was murdered under mysterious circumstances in ’75). Sherry Simon contributes the essay in the brochure accompanying the exhibit.

At 4001 Berri #105 until Feb. 24. Info: 842-9686. :

—Genevieve Paiement