Five free exhibitions until September 30th at the Segreti d'Autore Festival conceived by Ruggero Cappuccio and directed by Nadia Baldi.
There are five exhibitions, open on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 18 to 20 pm until September 30, which enrich, in the suggestive setting of Palazzo Coppola in Valle/Sessa Cilento (Sa), the cultural events of the twelfth edition of “Segreti d'Autore”, the Festival of the Environment, Science, Arts and Legality conceived by Ruggero Cappuccio and directed by Nadia Baldi.
“Synaesthet X” is an artistic project curated by Paolo Iammarone and Vincenzo Fiorillo and consists of a sensorial journey, where sound and image merge to give life to an engaging and stimulating experience. Through the works of Iammarone, the original music by Ivo Parlati and Fiorillo himself, with the direction of Aldo Verde and the direction of photography by Stefano De Stasio, the feminine world is told, its mix of beauty, grace and lightness that, when necessary, is also able to mix with strength. With Barbie, a global icon of contemporaneity, to represent the essence and timeless resistance of women, and a dark room that reaches the end of the exhibition path, symbol of the maternal womb, where you can watch the last painting: a video-musical composition in which the image becomes sound and the sound returns the image.
“Bloody hell” is instead the exhibition of the artist Simona Fredella, where the protagonists are the bodies, or rather what remains of them, of some of the most famous Neapolitan playwrights, portrayed in an unusual process of de-composition. The intent is to try to crystallize in the drawing the creative force of each of them, which pulsates through the organic matter and devours it, continually reshaping it. You will be able to recognize Scarpetta, Viviani, Eduardo, De Simone, Santanelli, Moscato, Ruccello, Cappuccio and Borrelli. Authors-actors of the never-ending show of ruin that takes place in the belly of Naples, enormous body of a mother in beautiful, poignant eternal malùra.
The world of drama, as well as the ancient world of divinities, also draws inspiration from “The Shapes of the Soul” by Marina Turco, a project of 10/13 terracotta busts made by Forni Anper Rubì (Barcelona) and with the creation of wooden supports by Carlos Bernal Lorente. In the deposits of classical mythology there is enough material to connect the images and stories to an Olympus renewed in its rites and languages. Some of these playwrights reshape the experience of the rite, making it a dialectical element of the human condition of the time; others strengthen the bond with the ancient world by building on this archaic memory the foundations of a new creativity or the dramaturgical engine of various narrative developments.
Almost 100 photographs, portraits of writers, directors, musicians, actors, but also the gesture of a boy on the streets of Palermo or an absorbed look at the hospital of Palermo, tell us about the wonderful world and 30 years of work of Lia Pasqualino in the exhibition “The time of waiting”. The exhibition highlights the originality of the gaze of the photographer from Palermo who, through the poetry of her images, shows the silence, the mystery and the humanity of glances, eyes and hands between the lands of Sicily, the wings of a theatre and a film set. A project that retraces the phases of a continuous research, from the mid-eighties to today, and the definition of an intense yet reserved language.
Romeo Civilli's photographic exhibition is also rich in suggestions and reflections “Human Right?”, where that question mark sounds like a heavy indictment when looking at some of the reports that Civilli has made around the world. The images of the Saharawi refugee camps, of child labor in Ghana, of women and children affected by albinism in Uganda, of child brides, of Indian Dalits, of street children and Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, open our eyes to a suffering humanity and lead us to hope that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, dated on paper December 10, 1948, will finally become reality.
Admission to the exhibitions is free, as is all the events of “Segreti d'Autore”, a Festival recognized by the Ministry of Culture and financed by the Campania Region, with Sessa Cilento as the leading municipality of the event and the collaboration of the Province of Salerno. Reservations must be made by sending an email to comunicazione@festivalsegretidautore.it
Article published on 27 July 2022 - 14:00
