In the Langhe for the celebrations of Beppe Fenoglio’s 100th anniversary

A century has passed since the birth of Beppe Fenoglio and to celebrate the great writer and partisan who told about the Langhe and the Italian Resistance, a season of meetings, events, walks is about to begin, right in the land where he was born and loved. A rich and articulated program, entitled «Spring of Beauty“, like the third and last novel published in his lifetime by Beppe Fenoglio, which begins on March 1, the day he would have turned 100, obviously in his Alba.

The events in its Piazza Rossetti

To kick off the celebrations will be the “Cardiopulse secret”: an installation by the light artist Emilio Ferro which will conceptually evoke the neologism coined by Fenoglio himself to describe the secret movement of Alba, Zona Libera Partigiana from 10 October 1944 and for the following twenty-three days, starting from its legendary Olivetti Studio 44. Composed of four rays of light, the installation will be accompanied by a musical texture of Max Casacci, composer and producer of the Subsonica, who reproduced the sounds of Fenoglio’s typewriter and those of Piazza Rossetti. This is where the work will be placed, right in front of the Beppe Fenoglio Study Center who still today – in addition to an exhibition dedicated to the Langhe – keeps the room that was part of his home and where he composed his works, with his personal objects, original photographs by Aldo Agnelli and writings that offer the opportunity to know better life, as well as the literary commitment of this writer who lived just forty years and considered one of the greatest of the twentieth century.

Theater appointments and exhibitions

Also on March 1st at the Teatro Sociale G. Busca there will be the inaugural of “Beppe Fenoglio 22” conducted by Neri Marcorè and with the intervention of Max Casacci, Emanuele Cisi, Guido Chiesa, Nicola Lagioia, Davide Longo together with Chiara Colombini and Valentina Vetri, members of the scientific committee of the centenary including Professor Gian Luigi Beccaria. On March 4, then, is the day of another of the inaugurations not to be missed: an exhibition at Palazzo Banca d’Alba dedicated to the Phoenician language with special weekend appointments to observe how Fenoglio’s stylistic choices have become an artistic object through a process of exaltation that links writing to photography.

The walks

There are many opportunities to discover Fenoglio in its places. On March 3, to begin with, there will be the first walk along the paths and places that inspired the writer which will be possible to travel throughout the centenary year. From 6 March, every Sunday, you can also take a free tour «Between the lines of BF22»Of eleven stages in the heart of Alba. Then there are themed walks, such as “The Path of Argentina” that on 8 March, from Manera di Benevello, he walks the paths along the hills overlooking the Belbo Valley, places linked to the female sphere, to the delicate and never marginal figure present in Fenoglio’s works. Also on March 8, at the Teatro Sociale G. Busca in Alba it will be staged for its world premiere “Tell me how she was dressed”: show freely based on the novels and short stories of the writer from Alba, which highlights the personalities of women in his works conceived, directed and interpreted by the collective TUTTE. In San Benedetto Belbo, a town much loved and frequented by Beppe Fenoglio, on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 March it will be possible to take a preview visit of the restored Censa by Placido, Fenogliano place mentioned in A day of fire.

Liberation Day

It could only be special on April 25, Liberation Day: a day of commemorations, walks and historical events throughout Italyin collaboration with the historical Institutes of the Resistance and the ANPI, will be dedicated to Partisan Johnny. Title of Fenoglio’s unfinished autobiography, it is considered one of the most important novels dedicated to the Resistance, and has also become a film directed by Guido Chiesa that, just restored in the Cinecittà laboratories by the Istituto Luce, it will be premiered as part of the 21st Glocal Film Festiva, on 12 March at the Cinema Massimo in Turin.

Festivals

Finally, among the many scheduled events, there are also two festivals: ËN-PÌ (One more) which is the festival of music, history, culture and literature that the Beppe Fenoglio Study Center in collaboration with the ANPI section of Alba organizes for 7 and 8 May, and Tightrope walkers – Words in balance, scheduled for May 28, on the occasion of which it will also be inaugurated the photographic exhibition with images of the Resistance from the Archive of the Beppe Fenoglio Study Center. The whole program of celebrations is on www.beppefenoglio22.it

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