The group exhibition “Controvento. Artists for Pasolini” took place at Villa Guglielmi, Fiumicino, from June 25 to July 10.

Curated by Sandro Polo and Silvia Calvarese and promoted by GAF, Glocal Art Factory, the group show featured several artists, including Fausto Maxia, one of the leading names in the Sayato portfolio.

Fausto dedicated to the great Italian poet who died prematurely the work “Alone alone, lost, mute, on foot, I can recognize things” – mixed media on canvas and wooden base, 200×25 cm. – inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini‘s “The Smell of India.”

“Pasolini narrates his journey with Moravia and Morante to a very different India from the one that in those same years a young generation would begin to celebrate as an opportunity for spiritual rebirth. From the tormented and astonished account of a miserable life – “India is a Buchenwald” – shines through the poet’s complex vision of the religious world, which was never subjected to simplification, to reduction to an article of faith. Of that vision my work is meant to be a tribute.”