Illustrated lecture by Ivan Cenzi of Bizzarro Bazar
Date: Sunday, May 31st
Time: 8pm
Admission: $8 ( Tickets Here )
Location: Morbid Anatomy Museum, 424 Third Avenue, 11215 Brooklyn

A highly visual lecture about the weird, macabre and marvelous aspects of Italy: a country which, on the account of its rich historical heritage and ancient culture, has become over the centuries an immense wunderkammer. We will delve into the haunting Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo, where thousands of mummies are on display; explore the Fontanelle Cemetery in Naples, a charnel house where a unique cult involving 40.000 anonymous skulls has developed; take a peek inside Rome’s baroque fantasies made with human bones, and gaze at the most amazing specimens featured in one of the world’s best Pathological Anatomy Museums.

The first two photographic books in the Bizzarro Bazar Collection, The Eternal Vigil and De Profundis will be presented. Ivan Cenzi was born in 1978 in Asiago, Italy. After graduating in Communication Studies at the University of Siena and specializing in Film direction at Cinecittà, he now works as a film director and producer. Explorer of the uncanny and collector of curiosities, since 2009 he is the editor of Bizzarro Bazar (bizzarrobazar.com), a blog devoted to all things “weird, macabre and marvellous”, which in a short time has become the Italian landmark for this kind of topics. Over the years Bizzarro Bazar has been dealing with wunderkammern, anatomical museums and collections, the history of circus and traveling fairs, the early days of science, photography, classic and modern art, music, literature but also anthropology, thanatology, psychology, cinema, sexuality, humour, etc.

In 2014 Bizzarro Bazar launches a collection of photographic books, both in Italian and English, published by Logos and centered on Italy’s less-known wonders.