Call to the Arts
a project by Cristina Mazzavillani Muti
artistic direction Michele Marco Rossi e Anna Leonardi
reception at the Classis Museum curated by Francesca Masi
at 11 am and 5 pm
Teatri 35, Tableaux vivants
music by Valerio Sannicandro
live electronics curated by Valerio Sannicandro
Free admission
9 pm
Filarmonica Toscanini
Tito Ceccherini conductor
Nicolò Tuccia piano
Michele Marco Rossi cello
music Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Ivan Fedele, Thomas Larcher, Johann Sebastian Bach
Free admission. Booking is required
in collaboration with Museo Classis Ravenna and RavennAntica
under the patronage of Nuovo Imaie
The Ravenna Festival’s constant focus on the new generations has resulted in an unprecedented project: the Call to the Arts. The exhortation of the title sums up the spirit of this peaceful and creative “meeting”, which, through a public call, invites the youngest—up to 25 years old, with no minimum age—without forcing their artistic vein into pre-established patterns, without teaching lessons or suggesting strategies, but rather offering a space and time where they can express themselves and confront themselves with other young artists and with the public. This project is the result of the visionary tenacity of Cristina Mazzavillani Muti, who has entrusted it to the enthusiastic experience of young musicians such as Michele Marco Rossi, perhaps the most highly regarded cellist of his generation by contemporary composers, and Anna Leonardi, former oboist of the Orchestra Cherubini youth ensemble, who also works in the organisational and editorial fields. And since this multidisciplinary approach is a value that cannot be renounced, the call is open to the most diverse forms of expression: photography, video, poetry, rap, trap, traditional or innovative visual arts, mosaic, musical composition… all of which will find expression in the “museum-factory” of the Classis. During four intensive days, original works will be collected, exhibited or performed, and the artistic process will be recreated in a rich series of events: a creative workshop always open to the public.
Old and new, past and future: opposite poles reflected in the extraordinary centre of life and culture of the Mediterranean, the “mare nostrum”, the theme of this first day, together with the physicality of the bodies of those who have crossed and still cross these waters: endless and sensitive material for the young photographers who will answer the “call”. Ancient are the masterpieces that will be reproduced on stage, true “tableaux vivants”, and modern is the electronic sound that will make them vibrate. Old, but still relevant, are Biber’s almost expressionist Battalia and Bach’s supreme synthesis of all styles and periods; modern, but still tied to the thread of the past, are the works of Fedele and Larcher, in a temporal short-circuit that is the very essence of art.
