Ravenna Festival 2010
(16 June - 18 July)
BIANCO NERO PIANO FORTE
Installazione "site specific"
progetto Mara Cantoni, Luigi Ceccarelli, Silvia Lelli, Roberto Masotti
fotografie Lelli e Masotti
prose e versi Mara Cantoni
musica e sound design Luigi Ceccarelli
musiche realizzate presso Edison Studio - Roma, IMEB-Bourges
voci Sonia Bergamasco, Paolo Bessegato, Elena Bucci, Mara Cantoni, Marco Cavalcoli, Sandro Cerino, Enrico Fink, Gabriella Franchini, Camillo Grassi, Ermanna Montanari, Giovanna Mori
video e sito internet produzione e realizzazione DDR Videoflot, Gerardo Lamattina
allestimento Leonardo Scarpa
audio e illuminotecnica LPE
progetto Marino Pandolfini
Produzione Ravenna Festival
in collaborazione con Istituzione Biblioteca Classense
What are things in the absence of man? Inert shapes, mere impressions in the rut of history, or throbbing figures of the imagery? What does a piano do without a pianist? Does it lie waiting, meditating, evoking, or does it simply exist? Does it feel nostalgia for man?
The idea for this installation came from a collection of b&w photos portraying pianos in different surroundings and often revealed as unsettling, mysterious creatures.
The encounter of verse, prose and sound gives birth to an installation where the different arts converse and finally merge. The true protagonist here is the piano - more observing than observed, implacable, black, shiny and tense. And a piano is present in real terms - laying on one side, bare naked, its chords singing, stimulated by slight electromechanical vibrations.