Cosimo Cinieri: rappresentazione di Cristo al CEP di Bari 1977

Abstract

This essay analyses Cristo al CEP of Cosimo Cinieri, a representation of the Passion of Christ along the streets of the popular neighborhood of San Paolo di Bari characterized by public housing (CEP), on Palm Sunday of 3 April 1977. Cinieri, active with the Communist Party in the Seventies and returning from the experience of Marigliano with Leo and Perla, experiments his personal hybridization with the “popular”: Cristo al CEP was a scenic action aimed at involving the residents of the CEP “to live a live experience and not only live life through television”.