Milo Manara | Umberto Eco - Le Nom de la rose

To mark the 40th anniversary of Jean-Jacques Annaud's film and the 10th anniversary of Umberto Eco's death, the Fellini Foundation presents the exhibition Milo Manara | Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose.

Drawings by Milo Manara Albums 1 and 2. Documents from the Fondazione Umberto Eco, cultural partner of the exhibition. Documents from Reinhold Jaretzky's documentary film: Einmal einen Mönch vergiften - Umberto Eco [I felt like killing a monk - Umberto Eco] ARTE 2007.

Espace culturel de la Fondation Fellini - La Maison du diable, Rue des Creusets 31 - Sion. From June 2 to September 2, 2026. Opening June 2, 2026, 7pm. Open Tuesday to Saturday, 3pm - 7pm.

The Fellini Foundation brings together three great artists to mark the 40th anniversary of Jean-Jacques Annaud's film The Name of the Rose and the 10th anniversary of the death of Umberto Eco, author of the famous novel published in 1980, which was adapted for the cinema in 1986 and then for the comic strip by Milo Manara in two albums published in 2023 and 2025 in their original editions.

The Espace culturel de la Maison du diable in Sion is honored to host Milo Manara's drawings, along with documents made available by the Fondazione Umberto Eco. The meeting of literature, cinema and comics offers visitors a half-century-long artistic dialogue based on Umberto Eco's medieval thriller, which has become one of the most mythical books in contemporary literature: the mere mention of the mysterious title The Name of the Rose raises philosophical, political and moral questions from the Middle Ages that are still relevant today. The cultural partnership of the Umberto Eco Foundation, which the Fellini Foundation is also honored to associate with this exhibition, has enabled us to present to the general public a selection of exceptional documents by Umberto Eco, including drawings related to the novel The Name of the Rose. This anniversary exhibition is an opportunity to recall the importance today, more than ever, of the work of Umberto Eco, one of the last great universal thinkers and researchers.

Some forty plates remind us of the extent to which Milo Manara's albums also correspond to Umberto Eco's novel, through a form of sublimation of the work and transfiguration of a universe born of history and the imaginary. The elegance of the design and scenography conjure up the beauty of medieval illuminations to express a powerfully dramatized initiatory adventure. The library in The Name of the Rose perfectly reveals its ambiguity as an infinite labyrinth within, and a closed labyrinth without. This central place in the story imposes its nature as a mutant edifice, as it does in Borges' short story, one of the references recalled by Umberto Eco in Apostille to the Name of the Rose, and in its Piranesian architectural model in the intimidating guise of Frederick II's Castel del Monte.

The exhibition also features Reinhold Jaretzky's film Einmal einen Mönch vergiften - Umberto Eco / J'avais l'envie de tuer un moine - Umberto Eco (ARTE 2007).

The exhibition incorporates sound itineraries for smartphones via QR codes.

A cultural mediation program is also offered to visitors in the form of an interactive map highlighting the medieval monuments of the city of Sion. Visitors to the exhibitions will become investigators in the labyrinth of Sion's old town and castles.

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