Paolo Sorentino: Universal Language of Art

The lecture “Paolo Sorrentino: The Universal Language of Art” by Nikola Ivanović, MA, art historian and curator of the Gallery of Matica Srpska, will be held in the Gallery of the National Museum Kraljevo, on Thursday, September 12th, 2024, starting at 7 p.m., as part of the exhibition “Inspired by Italy”.

The backbone of the lecture is an analysis of the opening credits of Sorrentino’s two series “The Young Pope” (2016) and “The New Pope” (2020), which are the carriers of the main ideas of the series. Film director and screenwriter Paolo Sorrentino often quotes the history of art in his creations, and recognizable art works are an integral part of the staging. However, how he uses them, interprets them and what he wants to say by building certain characters, their relationships with other actors or situations is one of the key questions of this lecture. What is baroque in Sorrentino’s conceptual solutions and for what purposes he uses a network of recognizable visual symbols can figure out how the apparatus of the universal language of art works.