FRANCESCA GRILLI

Enduring midnight

L’arte è un fatto privato

PERFORMANCE:  Saturday, 06 May 2010 – H. 12.00 am

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Soprano LINA VASTA

Pianist DR. DIEGO MATTIELLO

Thanks to CASA VERDI, Milano

My grandmother’s name, Fedora, was given to her because of the great passion that her father had for the Opera, so during her life, she tried to hum the few stanzas she knew about the operas, transforming them into lullabies or chants, sonorous legacy of his father’s passions.

Always starting from an autobiographical analysis and a need to narrate what is part of my story, I try to build the space by filling it with some traces of my experience.

Enduring Midnight does not want to be an attempt at staging, but rather the reconstruction of a vision belonging to my sonorous, poetic, analytical memory, on passion and its durability. This work once again revolves around a center, that of the end, of transformation, of the moment of transition, simply by combining two different conditions: the advance of physical time as emptying and the energy released by the crowning of one’s passion.

So I ask a soprano who resides in “The Rest Home for Musicians, Giuseppe Verdi”, at the end of her long and glorious career, to sing again in front of an audience, but in the middle of the night.

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Art is a private matter

Curated by FRANCESCO PANDIAN e MARIA ROSA SOSSAI

Art is a private matter. In recent decades, art has transformed into a public arena that involves a growing number of people and professionals in the sector, thanks to the growing interest and attention of the media and the market that have emphasized its commercial aspect. This economic-strategic state of the arts produces what Paolo Virno defines as an infinite proliferation of differences of the multitude, which is counterbalanced by the intimate and personal sphere of the aesthetic dimension, or rather a notion of complex and explicitly non-essential subjectivity. Art therefore qualifies as an individual’s tension towards an infinite and non-apparent becoming. To be part of it and make it come true, it is necessary to recognize this vocation in us and prepare ourselves to accept it. In the wake of conversations around these themes, Francesco Pandian and Maria Rosa Sossai invited four artists to occupy the gallery for one evening and to recreate the uniqueness of the creative moment, an unrepeatable here and now that allows that kind of sensitive experience that follows development of the artist’s thought. During the first four meetings focused on the relationship between art and music, private biographies, sound creations, moving images, live actions will stage different forms of individuality to reaffirm the centrality of experimentation and the sensuality of the aesthetic experience that it still maintains today. the characteristics of a substantially private and subjective fact, extraneous to the reproductive processes typical of the exhibition context.

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