Criminal Pens - Dora Nera

Officina della Scrittura, the first museum in the world dedicated to Sign and Writing, is pleased to present to the public the new art exhibition ‘Penne Criminali’, dedicated to noir writing and literature.
The exhibition, which will be inaugurated on Thursday 19 October at 6.30 p.m. in the Museum’s Scripta Volant room, marks the Museum’s collaboration with and support for the City of Turin’s ‘Dora Nera’ Festival of Noir Culture, now in its third edition, and the brainchild of screenwriters and writers Pasquale Ruju and Andrea Cavaletto and the cultural association Babelica.

On the occasion of the inauguration of the new exhibition, the official presentation of the Festival programme and the presentation of the unpublished story written by Enrico Pandiani Il destino non è un finale già scritto and the book La storia del giallo in 50 investigatori by Luca Crovi published by Centauria, from which the works in the exhibition are taken, will be held in the museum rooms.

Penne Criminali will in fact present a selection of 23 plates depicting some famous detectives from the history of detective and noir stories that illustrator Angelo Montanari created for the book La storia del giallo in 50 investigators by Luca Crovi, one of Italy’s leading experts on detective literature. From classic characters, including Edgar Allan Poe’s Auguste Dupin and Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple, to superheroes such as Catwoman to Andrea Camilleri’s Italian Salvo Montalbano.