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Il Terzo Paradiso
The work proposed in this exhibition was born from the artistic collaboration between Gianna Nannini and Michelangelo Pistoletto, she a leading figure in the world of music, he in the visual arts, which fuses two different disciplines and language.
The installation consists of the Orchestra di Stracci by Michelangelo and the vocal “sculpture” of Gianna Nannini, Mamma. The two works become entangled, mix, and embrace, developing a syntony and sharing of thought. The Orchestra di Stracci, that finds as antecedents the analogous works made by Pistoletto in the 1960s, outlines the new infinity sign, symbol of the Third Paradise.
“The new infinity sign crosses the line twice, thus drawing three circles. The central circle describes a pregnant belly, product of the coupling of the two circles that made up the old symbol. This belly represents the generation of the Third Paradise.” (Michelangelo Pistoletto)
The two external circles represent Nature and Artifice, two contrasting poles, which - united - inseminate the Third Paradise. This last is the expression of the endurable coexistence between the natural and artificial spheres. The central circle is the maternal belly of a new thought that leads humanity to survival.
The centre of the new infinity sign is the point ideally crossed from the umbilical cord that unites past, present and future generations.
Along the mirrored surfaces that surround the space runs the sonorous intervention of Gianna Nannini, who, using the voice as the only instrument, creates a vocal “sculpture”, a modality of spatiality of the sound/voice that determines, defines and shapes the space itself.
The vocal “sculpture’ of Gianna Nannini allows the user to experience a complete immersion in the voice in an emotional way.
Michelangelo Pistoletto specifically chose aluminium as the material to best represent the concept of Terzo Paradiso because it is both technological and eco-friendly since it is recyclable to infinity. This choice is part of the consolidated collaboration between the Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto and the CiAI, Consorzio Nazionale per il Recupero e il Riciclo dell'Alluminio (National Association for the Reutilization and Recycling of Aluminium).
Nannini’s long solo, with a vocal tone charged with harmony, unites with the sonorous effect produced by fuming kettles, active in the Orchestra di Stracci. The vapour, when coming into contact with the overhanging glass, condenses into drops of rain that moisten the rags, to also produce an olfactory effect.
Il Terzo Paradiso, created in the spaces of bunKerart, is the fruit of an artistic collaboration that, through the aesthetic of connections, is the carrier of a message of responsibilty and change. The music of Gianna Nannini becomes a vehicle of communication to translate the concept expressed in the Terzo Paradiso of Pistoletto into myth.
Thanks to: CARB i vini della Certosa; Livio Felluga
Mi meraviglio di me
On Friday 29th of February 2008 at 7pm, in the context of the project "forma e suono" (form and sound), RAM radioartemobile presents Getulio Alviani and Gianna Nannini, both highly successful artists in the world of visual art and music respectively. Together they have created "mi meraviglio di me" to be shown in the space of bunKerat in Milan.
In this collaboration between Getulio Alviani and Gianna Nannini, they question us and each other about the parameters and the expressive relationships between form and sound, between material and abstraction with subtle values, which are surprisingly linguistically similar since both are clear and primary.
In the empty extension of bunKerart, suspended at the height of the human eye, the work of Getulio Alviani "Interrelazione speculare, concavo = convesso" shows (with 6 semicilindrical, alluminium, mirrored shapes) a longitudinal, balanced path which is, at the same time, a contrast between full and empty, concave and convex. The visual structure is receptive to light which, through the movement of the spectator, transforms and combines in diverse images. Alviani's work also probes sound which, in its vibrating materiality, finding the best relationship with light.
Gianna Nannini immerses herself in the work of alviani reapplying the substance of the dialogue through the superimposition of a "doppiovocale". Indeed, at the opposite poles of the work, two separate sound sources reproduce themselves, on one side a song from the Himba, a group of Nomads from the area of North Namibia to the confines of Angola, and from the other side the voice of Nannini. For the mono-modality of the two sounds, the voices are pushed horizontally and converge in their own sound which finds, in the work of alviani, a perfect channel of amplification.
The work of Getulio Alviani, free from any metaphorical or misleading meaning, is based on oppositions and inversions but, at the same time, on equalization, on a practical and concrete level, that regards the work. Gianna Nannini translates the feeling into music and experiments the dialectic on an anthropological level. soundesign Dave M. Allen
Superficie In Ceramica
Superficie In Ceramica - Milano
The work, created on purpose for the exhibition, brings visive art and sound together. Abstraction, intended as a formal process, is the shared element of the two interventions in the Sound and Shape project.
Carla Accardi, one of the Italian greatest representatives of abstract art, since Forma 1 (1947) till today, has constantly carried out work of innovation and research that has made her one of the most important figures of Italian art in the world. “In art only traditional reality and inventiveness of the pure shape exist. Paintings, sculptures present as media of expression the plastic masses whose purpose is the harmony of pure shapes.” The horizontal level of the floor traditionally explored by American Action Painting artists, today has become the site of the signs with the work “Superficie in ceramica”.
Gianna Nannini has tackled her career with the same determination, always experiencing new languages and sounds, becoming the icon of Italian rock music. “Passi di Passaggio” spells a constant, nearly obsessive rhythmic time, giving the sound an abstract vision. That sound vibrates on the horizontal level and automatically generates a double female dialogue between sound and image. Running together with the exhibition organized by RAM at bunKerart, will be a personal exhibition of Carla Accardi at the Galleria Seno in Milan in which the artist will exhibit paintings produced for the occasion.