In response to themes in and the spirit of Tamara Henderson's exhibition Green In The Grooves, Watts will present some of the later poetry of the renowned screen writer, artist, poet & novelist Tonino Guerra (1920-2012).
Guerra, while perhaps being best known internationally for his extensive film work in Rome with directors such as Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni, was born and spent much of his early life & old age in the Sant Arcangelo region of Emilio Romagna. His late poetry intimately engages with the local detail of landscape & ecologies and the social contexts of abandonment in ways that find echoes in Andrey Tarkovsky’s late film Nostalgia (1983) that Guerra, a very close long-term friend of Tarkovsky, actively co-created.
With special thanks to Rory Cook and Protype Publishing.
