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The hoax of Modigliani's fake Heads will be a film. With a Friends of Mine cut
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The story of Amedeo Modigliani's fake Heads will become a film. It will have a Monicelli's "Amici Miei" cut, playful but still truthful.
One of the greatest hoaxes in art history will become a film. It stars the (fake) heads of Amedeo Modigliani that were found onJuly 24, 1984, in Livorno, Italy, and are now on display at Ferrara ’s Palazzo Bonacossi until Sept. 25, 2022.
The Ferrara Arte Foundation, on the occasion of the exhibition FAKES from Alceo Dossena to the Modigliani forgeries, created by an idea of Vittorio Sgarbi and curated by Dario Del Bufalo and Marco Horak, with the collaboration of Pietro Di Natale, contacted the authors to tell, thirty-eight years later, this chapter of forgery in art from their point of view.
Year 1984: it is the centenary of Modigliani’s birth; four of the twenty-six heads made by the artist are on display in Livorno. According to one legend, he himself threw four sculptures, deemed unsatisfactory, into the Livorno ditches before going to Paris. On the occasion of the exhibition, excavations for the search begin: no results. Enter three
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Modigliani
Amedeo Modigliani: The Memorable 1984 Hoax
The Art of the Prank
During the 1984 summer, for the centenary of the birth of Amedeo Modigliani (12 July 1884), the Progressive Museum of Modern Art of Livorno decided to set up an exhibition in honour to him. The purpose of this exhibition was to highlight the brief and not well documented career of Modigliani's sculptor.
The care of the project was entrusted to the conservator of the local civic museum, Vera Durbé, with the collaboration of her brother Dario, superintendent of the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome. To increase the successful of the exhibition, initially a bit modest and snubbed by the critics (there was only four sculptures in display), the Durbes decided to explore the bottom of the "Medici canals", where in 1909, they said, Modigliani had thrown, discouraged by the judgment of his 'artist friends', and before to come back to Paris, some sculptures.
The Municipality of Livorno did not hesitate to fund research, hoping in this way to attracting visitors to the city. And so, in front of a huge crowd of curiosity seekers, the canals in the town center were dragged in the hopes of finding the “lost Modigliani.” A few days passed, but no trace of Modigliani's sculptures.
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