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Telling the career of a great artist is never easy, the risk is losing oneself in the details of the stories, images, and collaborations. To narrate Carmine’s journey in the exhibition Carmine Di Giandomenico: Counterpoints, which will open at Palazzo Ducale on October 19 and remain open to the public until November 3 (free admission), we have chosen to focus on the most significant milestones of his career.

Like the lines of a musical score, we aim to guide the visitor through the notes the author has scattered throughout his works. We’ll start from his early days with Examen, moving through his long and fruitful collaboration with Alessandro Bilotta with the works Giulio Maraviglia and La Dottrina. We’ll pause at Oudeis, Carmine Di Giandomenico’s first work as a complete author, which earned him a Guinness World Record.

We’ll explore his overseas breakthrough with Marvel, where he created unforgettable stories with Daredevil, Magneto, and The Fantastic Four; then his move to DC Comics to revamp The Flash, 60 years after another Carmine, Infantino. The journey will culminate with the miniseries written by Chip Zdarsky, Batman Knight. The author’s musicality is not just in the compositions within the panels, but it is completed with the creation of the story Leone, in collaboration with Francesco Colafella, a story about a musician who emigrated to New York at the beginning of the last century, followed by his direction of the music video for Claudio Baglioni’s latest song.

When we talk about a “complete author,” we must consider Carmine Di Giandomenico’s journey, as in the first thirty years of his career, he has already produced an incredible array of high-quality works.