The Art trick ( Angelo Froglia )

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The Art trick ( Angelo Froglia ) (Angelo Froglia. L'inganno dell'arte)

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Angelo Froglia. L'inganno dell'arte

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country:

Italy

year:

2017

film run:

65'

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colour

status:

Ready (23/10/2017)

A posthumous portrait that includes life and works, equally audacious, of a controversial and marginalized artist, who had a life so intense and deflagrating as short and painful. Reminded by the most like a docker with the hobby of painting, an amateur, a junky, a degenerate, Angelo Froglia spends an unscrupulous, cursed existence, always behind the scenes, among art workshops, political struggles, maximum-security prisons, drugs and great loves: a vortex of destruction involving anyone approaching him. He died HIV-positive in January 1997, leaving a great, not only pictorial, production. An unknown story, told by the voices of the few who were close to him. A story rebuilt through his writings, his paintings and his original footages, in addition to the press and video archives of that time, trying to do justice to this profound, complex and still controversial figure.
A violent, provocative, intransigent scream of freedom hurled from an Italian forsaken area and addressed to the whole world.