For those who remember or have heard of '77, Bologna is the symbol of the student protests and the DAMS is its ideological cradle.
An intricate knot of nodes, feelings and conflicting values and values. Comrades, bundles, simple students, citizens, pensioners: all together in a micro-mundo that has crystallized. Telling the nuances and contradictions of those years is a boy with a boundless talent, who died prematurely, who lived right here near our major hotel .
The story of Andrea Pazienza Bologna
Andrea Pazienza is the creator of Pentothal, the protagonist of a documentary on the clashes. He tells of Zanardi, Colasanti and Petrillo who are the most classic of the neighborhood regaz Of Pertini also, which desecrates a myth with the affection of those who want to make it even bigger.
In the Bologna Choir, it is practically impossible not to be able to distinguish the voice Andrea Pazienza, at times crouched, always magnetic.
The immediate creative and emotional impulse is fixed on the strips of a crystalline story of the past. Andrea Pazienza Bologna is this: Paz (with this nickname Andrea Pazienza is remembered in Bologna) is the Bologna of '77. The extraordinary adventures of Potothal tell about the revolutionary dreams of an entire generation, the Bologna of Radio Alice cleared live, echo the shouts of the student meetings.
For patience, making comics was an obvious logical instinctive act . He was born in San Benedetto del Tronto on 23 May 1956, the childhood spent between San Severo and Pescara and then, straight to Bologna. Dams is the point of no return for his human and artistic formation. It becomes the comic book reporter of the Bologna of the clashes, of its contradictions, of the flame of red ideology.
At number 223 in via Emilia Ponente, you can still see the brick red building with green shutters, where patience lived. A few steps from the Hotel Maggiore, which is one of the most recommended historic hotels to easily explore the heart of the city, Paz has designed most of his adventures for ten years. From comics to film posters wanted by Fellini.
The life of Andrea Pazienza in Bologna is scaled between the "Cyrenaica" bar and the apartment in via Clavature transformed into a creative laboratory baptized with the name of Traum Fabrik. Here, his brightest editorial inventions were born. Then between the Trevbi trattorias and the Moretto, the Bolognese itinerary to remember Andrea Pazienza cannot neglect the memory to Francesca Alinovi who chose him for an exhibition in the university city. The university fauna is the humus in which a new language pointed out between the Apulian Bolognese sprouts.
Precisely from the synergy between patience and the university world of Bologna, the "Cannibal" Underground magazine created together with Tatino Liberatore and Filippo Scozzari was born. Paz, Apaz, Andrenza, Spaz (the names multiply) in 81 reaches popularity and continues to shatter society with cynicism and with a designer trait skied as the era it tells. A small segment of Italian history is stuck between the flickering whites and blacks, among the shadows and line of an unforgettable bibliography.
Book your visit to Bologna and discover the story, from the medieval to the contemporary one
If you intend to visit Bologna and retrace the same roads that you have read and consumed on the sheets of the epic of Penthotal makes a jump to the Sala Borsa library and discover the collection of documents on this issue.
Perhaps with a little bitterness in the mouth, you can remember times that are no longer, and an artist who missed too early: Andrea Pazienza and the Bologna of '77. Book your stay and discover all the things to see in Bologna.
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