Di Dei (Of Gods)
Stefano Arienti and Furio Di Castri
The collaboration between Stefano Arienti (visual arts) and Furio Di Castri (music), two important figures from the world of artistic experimentation in Italy, has given rise to a new project at the Fondazione Banna per l’Arte.
The exhibition opens at 5 p.m. on Saturday 15 and will remain open to the public from 5 – 7.30 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 16 – 30 September. Admission free.
Di Dei is a new branch of Stefano Arienti’s investigations into the different forms and contexts of the sacred and representations of Gods he has been conducting for many years. It is a sort of work in progress dedicated to the synthesis of visual poetry, spirituality and music.
The input by Furio Di Castri, which makes the artwork absolutely unique, turns the piece into a performance through a re-reading in sound terms of the work’s most secret soul.
Central to the project is the incommensurability of the object: God has as infinite a number of names as representations.
By using the large spaces of the Fondazione Spinola per l’Arte as a stage for this epiphany, Di Dei perfectly expresses such limitlessness, with a sincere nominalist flavour.
Providing a divinity with a name, an image and a sound implies identifying it and making it clearly visible, even if only for an instant.
This is an impossible challenge, theological heresy, but nevertheless a reflection of the multiplicity and intangibleness of all that is sacred.
The little sculptures of divinities scattered around the court, sometimes almost hidden, tell of this difficult tentative to correlate micro- and macrocosms, quantities and qualities, numbers and incommensurability. In a similar way, music can weave a mysterious story without need of a narration. It is the only art that platonically gets close to the idea of distancing itself radically from matter.
Di Dei, a bold and experimental piece by Arienti and Di Castri grows out of a solid and sophisticated base, without losing any of the freshness and immediacy of action. It is a sort of sophisticated mantra and yet still maintains popular elements recalling prayer in the liturgical tradition. Paradoxically, here we find traces of Buddha and Coltrane, Ganesh and Stockhausen, but also The Who and Padre Pio.
The activities of the Fondazione Spinola per l’Arte are supported by the Compagnia di San Paolo.
Music performed by:
FURIO DI CASTRI
double bass
FEDERICO SANESI
tabla and Indian percussion
NURIA SALA GRAU
dance
Students from the Conservatoire Giuseppe Verdi in Torino:
IVAN BERT
trumpet
GIANNI DENITTO
saxofone contralto
MAURIZIO ROSA
saxofone baritono
ROBERTA BUA
violin
FRANCESCA TOSCO
violin
MARCO NIRTA
viola
LAMBERTO CURTONI
violoncello
STEFANIA SAGLIETTI
harp
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