Ugo La Pietra
2021Per Oggi Basta!
Mario Livietti
Ugo La Pietra
The film expresses the difficulties artists come up against whenever they try out ‘paths’ that are outside the ‘system’. All this is represented through this project and, therefore, through the realisation and use of a tool (Il Commutatore, 1970) with which it is possible, in successive phases, to supersede the physicality of the city and to project oneself towards the ‘void’.
Enough for Today!
La grande occasione
Ugo La Pietra, Davide Mosconi
Made on the occasion of the XV Triennale di Milano, the film was shot inside the Triennale which, empty, expresses the tension and expectation of an artist in front of his "big opportunity", finally called to express himself through a great exhibition in an institutional venue.
The Great Occasion
La Riappropriazione della città
Ugo La Pietra
The film tries to demonstrate the way to regain possession of the city not so much with physical interventions but with behavioral and mental operations. "To live is to be at home everywhere: the phrase, almost a carousel slogan, opens the film as you start a poster, a sort of password to which the smiling face of Ugo La Pietra - all intent on the street making the beard reflected in the glass doors of a large door - offers the evidence of the images. Cinema for La Pietra becomes an indispensable means for analyzing and decoding the environment, recording the traces of an original creative activity, dismantling and reassembling the topoi of urban architecture, creating behavioral indications capable of giving life to "one's" city . (...) ". (Paolo Mereghetti, 1977).
Repossessing the City
La mia identità
Mario Livietti, Ugo La Pietra
Ugo La Pietra
The film was made with successive images of La Pietra’s face realised from 1938 to 1974, all continually compared with his face as was at that moment (1974). Through this sequence we have the sensation that for thirty-six years he has doggedly and slowly tried to reach some “final model” (his face in 1974).
The Search For My Identity
