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“From Ulysses to Corto Maltese, a journey through Hugo Pratt’s imagination”.
Museo Civico Villa Colloredo Mels
Adress: Via Gregorio XII, Recanati (Italy)
Phone: 071 7570410
E-mail: recanati@sistemamuseo.it
Timetables: from Tuesday to Sunday, 10. a.m.-1 p.m. and 3 p.m.-6 p.m.
Poetry, adventure novels, educational tales, historiographical research, myths and legends: Pratt’s literary universe is populated by quotations and references that seem to come to life from his mythological library.
It begins with Homer and Ulysses, with the 26 complete plates of the Odyssey, created in 1963 for “Il Corriere dei piccoli” and continues with the navigations of Corto Maltese: towards Rapa Nui to sail the seas in the company of La Perouse and towards Apia to meet Robert Louis Stevenson, to land in the Venice of Baron Corvo and again in the Midsummer Night’s Dream in the company of William Shakespeare or in Ethiopia to embrace Arthur Rimbaud accompanied by Pratt’s words.
And then again Parzival, Hermann Hesse and Moby Dick, Rasputin and Jack London, to continue in the air with Saint Exupéry. There is no shortage of literary references to the American continent: from the South with Jorge Luis Borges, Robert Arlt and Leopoldo Lugones to the North with James Oliver Curwood, Zane Grey and Kenneth Roberts, who were so influential in the creation of Wheeling, a masterpiece that engaged Pratt for almost his entire artistic life.
‘Ulysses’ is the new book from Cong Edizioni, with Hugo Pratt’s drawings coloured by Patrizia Zanotti and texts by Marco Steiner and Fabrizio Paladini
Siena, Palazzo delle Papesse. From 11th April to 19th October 2025. ‘Imaginary Geographies’ in the sign of Hugo Pratt: the incredible anthological exhibition arrives in
At the Saline Royale in Bourgogne, Hugo Pratt’s art meets the history of a place symbolising trade and travel: from 27 April to 9 November
‘Hugo Pratt, the legacy, the artwork, the biography’, from 5th to 14th February 2025 the exhibition in Volos, Greece 5 – 14 February 2025 (weekdays
