Gianini and Luzzati. Cartoons

The exhibition, organised by the National Cinema Museum, will run at the Mole Antonelliana from 23 January to 12 May 2013. The greater part of original material pertaining to the films still surviving will be showcased for the first time: over two hundred characters, sketches, set-designs and story-boards, showing the creative process which gave birth to some of the masterpieces in worldwide animation cinema. Federico Fellini used to talk about Giulio Gianini and Emanuele Luzzati's cinema, praising their imaginative design, humorous flair, fairy-tale sense and brilliant graphic solutions. A precise summary for the art of these two animators, who created a very personal style in which theatre, poetry and draughtsmanship merge admirably into a unique type of cinema, also garnering them two Oscar nominations, for La Gazza Ladra in 1964 and for Pulcinella in 1973.