Gli scritti di Giordano Falzoni per il Museo Vivo di Ugo Marano: sinergie creative e sperimentazione parasurrealista in Costiera Amalfitana | The Writings of Giordano Falzoni for Ugo Marano’s Museo Vivo: Creative Synergies and Parasurrealist Experimentati

Abstract

This paper aims to highlight the multifaceted artistic and intellectual contributions of Giordano Falzoni (1925-1998), a forgotten protagonist of the Italian avant-garde and a central figure in Italian Surrealism. Particular attention is given to Falzoni’s previously underexplored involvement on the Amalfi Coast, specifically his collaboration with artist Ugo Marano and his role in the avant-garde project Museo Vivo (1971-1976). Starting with an analysis of some of Falzoni’s critical writings, which appeared between the late 1940s and early 1950s in Surrealist or art criticism journals, the paper then examines two eminently ekphrastic texts, conceived as avant-garde poetic experiments: Museo Vivo, Giulio Turcato, and Ellissi a Ugo Marano. Ultimately, this research adds a further piece to Giordano Falzoni’s textual output. It highlights how his dynamic, anti-hierarchical approach to the creation and reception of artworks – interwoven with poetic references to figures of the caliber of André Breton, Jean-Paul Sartre, and the Italian poet Leonardo Sinisgalli – offered a singular interpretive bridge from the legacy of Surrealism, or more broadly from the French cultural climate, to the Italian Neo-avant-garde movements.