Storie di Lupi e Lepri (“Stories of Wolves and Hares”) is an exhibition composed of eighty drawings by Roberto Paci Dalò in 2009, during his stay in Naples.
The drawings, apparently childish, are part of the creative process of the artist who constantly uses graphic representation to elaborate and give shape to his projects.
Storie di Lupi e Lepri speaks of wolves, hares but also men and women who observe each other with their eyes wide open, creating a story to be discovered.

Other wolves, much more disturbing, are part of the series of drawings Werwolf, also present in the exhibition. In this case, the wolves are an evocation of a staggering historical event of the Second World War: the Nazi partisan guerrilla warfare against the allies in the last period of the conflict. An audio document from the Nazi radio station is part of the work. Werwolf was conceived in Berlin in 2006 on the basis of a text by the playwright Heiner Müller, at the invitation of the Internationale Heiner Müller Gesellschaft.

Storie di Lupi e Lepri is first exhibited in Naples at the Hde Gallery, then in Rimini at the Percorsi/Arte Contemporanea Gallery. The exhibition in Rimini is inaugurated on September 11, 2010.

Roberto Paci Dalò, Lupus in fabula!

“Drawing as a magnificent obsession. I have a small black notebook always at hand and a kit of pencils, ink, watercolors, even while I am traveling. This is a cartographic practice of daily mapping”, says the artist Roberto Paci Dalò. Then, referring to his Storie di Lupi e Lepri, he comments on the use of Indian ink, which he defines as cruel: “Indian ink is cruel: there is no possibility to correct in the instinctive drawing, and the ink is free to take you wherever it wants. The wolf is one of the most recurrent characters, sometimes it has a dark snout like the thickest ink, other times it is stripped of its skin and frightened”.

Roberto Paci Dalò is the author-narrator of these curious narrations made of china where little men with wide open eyes meet and mix with a large group of hares and wolves. The artist’s hand is fast and nervous, but at the same time it reveals his childish and playful soul. Eighty works in all, made during two intense months in Naples; forty are exhibited in modular format as frames of a storyboard that leaves visitors the freedom to start the story where they want. And then the plot begins! Lupus in fabula, then!

Storie di Lupi e Lepri: the limited edition

In 2010, on the occasion of the Rimini exhibition of Storie di Lupi e Lepri (“Stories of Wolves and Hares”), an edition of the exhibition was produced in ten copies, numbered and signed by the author. Each edition contains an original drawing by Roberto Paci Dalò, a copy of the entire series of drawings in the exhibition and the audio of Werwolf.