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«Passepartout», the artistic dissemination program of Philippe Daverio, who died today at age 70, for a long time knew how to narrate the world through that privileged tale that is the history of art: to make a cultural program, it is not enough to talk about culture. You don’t even need to conjure up “alternative languages”: instead, you need competence, passion, and a taste for detail. Not every day you heard phrases like “Hieronymus Bosch is not a master of ceremonies but a refined intellectual who tries to summarize all the fairy tales of the end of the millennium, when it is no longer scary but generates new fantasies” or “Painting? A Latin virus spread all over the world by the ancient Romans “or” The Virgin and God the Father seem the royalty of a mysterious Nordic East “or” This is a work of didactic catharsis “or” The Isenheim Altarpiece by Matthias Grünewald preserved in Monastero degli Antoniani it is one of the ten most important pictorial events of humanity, it is the Sistine Chapel of the North ». It happened once a week, plus the thousands of summer reruns. And it was always a party.
Daverio’s curiosity and knowledge (as admirably snobbish as being a councilor for culture in the Northern League of the municipality of Milan, in Formentini’s time, and then television) always looked in the car, to fix the viewer with a look that now threatens now an accomplice. But, playing on the opposite lunges of rejection and flattery, she led him on a fascinating journey. One fine day, it was September 2011, Rai decided to close “Passpartout”, welcoming Daverio, as if he were a “keeper” of knowledge. No one took to the streets to shout against obscurantism, censorship, freedom of thought.
No one has evoked Bulgarian edictsHe spoke of a “public service funeral” or “Italy of the gag”, as in the past had been done for other presenters. To this act of awkwardness by Rai, Daverio responded wryly, composing a funeral eulogy for his broadcast: “Passepartout passed away suddenly, in the prime of his health. The entire editorial staff and hundreds of thousands of loyal fans pitied him. The cause of death is probably attributable to a stray bullet fired during the recent administrative reorganization of the RAI that was forced to move from the private system of its management to the public most appropriate to the fiscal resources that feed it. Daverio had an extraordinary ability to become understand without avoiding the complexity of the speeches, to describe well-known events (from the Biennale to the Salone del Mobile) with a different perspective, never to treat culture as an object or a theme, as the précieuses ridiculed on television often do.
September 2, 2020 (change September 2, 2020 | 10:22)
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