Italian costume designer and
instructor Piero Tosi, who will turn 92 in April, will be
featured in an exhibition at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni as
part of the Rome Film Festival, which takes place from October
18 to October 28.
The exhibition, titled "Piero Tosi: Exercises in Beauty, The
CSC Years, 1988-2016", highlights his 28 years as an instructor
at Rome's Experimental Cinema Center (CSC).
Tosi's work contributed to the films of various leading
directors, including Visconti, Bolognini, Zeffirelli, Fellini,
Pasolini, Cavani, Wertmuller, and Amelio.
The show includes iconic pieces such as Sofia Loren's
lingerie from "Marriage Italian Style", Claudia Cardinale's ball
gown from "The Leopard", and Marcello Mastroianni's worn-out
suit from "The Organizer".
There are also costumes made together with students during
his seminars, which are true masterpieces of fabric.
During his years teaching at the CSC, Tosi held seminars on
costume design, makeup and hair for specific historic time
periods ranging from the Renaissance to the 1900s.
The students would then wear the costumes in recitals at the
school.
The work on display shows Tosi's exceptional attention to
every detail of a costume, from the choice of fabric to the wigs
used with the costumes.
The show also includes photographs from some of the most
famous films on which Tosi collaborated, in work that culminated
in his winning of an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement in 2013.
Stefano Iachetti, the show's curator together with Giovanna
Arena, Virginia Gentili and Carlo Rescigno, said Tosi "deserves
this exhibition".
"He's a genius, an artist, a craftsman. Only the CSC is able
to tell his story as an instructor: he was a generous teacher
but also very exacting; I often saw his students crying. He was
the first to arrive on set or in the classroom, and he didn't
permit anyone to work without passion and concentration,"
Iachetti said.
The exhibition opens on October 16 and runs through January
20.
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