VISIONNAIRE22 continues at the FRaC Museum with screenings of two documentary films and talks with the protagonists
After the events of August 25 and 28 (the masterclass with Maestro Aurelio Canonici entitled “Ennio Morricone: a lesson in music” and the screening of the docu-film ENNIO by director Giuseppe Tornatore) Visionnaire18 continues – until September 22 – the audiovisual review that reaches its second edition born from the synergy between the FRaC-Baronissi Museum (Regional Contemporary Art Fund) directed by Massimo Bignardi, and the Tutti Suonati association, with the patronage and contribution of the Municipality of Baronissi. The artistic direction is by Andrea Avagliano, the cinematographic consultancy by Massimiliano Palmese.
The next two appointments are a focus on Fabrizio De Andrè and the renowned Genoese songwriting school:
Thursday 1st September from 19:00 (free admission) there will be a regional exclusive screening of the docu-film “DeAndrè #DeAndrè Storia di un impiegato” already presented at the 78th Venice International Film Festival. The guest of the evening will be director Roberta Lena who will talk with the journalist Erminia Pellecchia. Followed by the concert of the Litteitaly duo who will pay homage to Farizio De Andrè.
The work retraces the concert of Cristiano, Faber's son, who brought his father's rearranged concept album on stage. A tour, that of Cristiano, lasting two years that paid homage to Fabrizio De André with his own notes. Cristiano is one of the faces, together with those of Dori Ghezzi and Filippo De André, to tell the story of Faber, digging into memory in search of memories with this man who became a legend of Italian music.
De André is explored not only as a singer-songwriter, but also as a father, delving into his most private sphere, and well-known events are also told, but from the son's version and from a more familiar perspective. Cristiano remembers the days spent in the Sardinian house of Portobello, where Fabrizio gave life to that album, surrounded by friends and colleagues. What emerges is an exclusive portrait of De André, which focuses on the bond between father and son, united by their love for mosaics and social thought, things that have allowed a passing of the baton, which is not simply the illustrious name, but an important artistic and political legacy.
Friday 2 September from 19:00 pm (free admission) “The New Genoese School” by Yvan Dellacasa and Paolo Fossati.
The talk is introduced and coordinated by Prof. Lello Savonardo (Coordinator of the Degree Course in Public, Social and Political Communication – University of Naples Federico II).
The documentary focuses on the "Genoese school", a cultural movement born in the 60s and active in particular in the Ligurian capital and in Italian songwriting. This movement includes great names, such as Gino Paoli, Luigi Tenco, Umberto Bindi, Bruno Lauzi, Fabrizio De André, but alongside them new talents of the singer-songwriter scene are making themselves known, such as Tedua, Izi, Bresh, Vaz Tè, Nader, Guesan, Demo. Known only by a pseudonym, these artists, mostly rappers, are applying to contemporary music and its recent evolutions the teachings received from those fathers who have carried high the banner of the Genoese school.
This is how two generations, apparently distant from each other, meet and intersect, showing how, despite the form may seem different, the desire to express oneself with profound words and to denounce the changes in society remains.
The program for the next few weeks, including screenings and talks, includes:
Thursday 8 September Women in music with Giovanna. Stories of a voice. (Italy, 2021), guest director Chiara Ronchini. Presented by Stefano Valanzuolo (RAI Radio 3 Suite).
Sunday 11 September Women in music with Senza Fine (Italy, 2021) by Elisa Fuksas. Guest Alfonso Amendola (UniSa).
Thursday 15 September Via con Me (Italy, 2020) guest director Giorgio Verdelli with Pasquale Scialò who presents the books Paolo Conte (Sperling & Kupfer) and Storia della canzone napoletana vol.II (Neri pozza). Moderator journalist and television author Gino Aveta.
Friday 16 September Homage to Pier Paolo Pasolini with “LA GIAGUARA – chasing Laura Betti and Pasolini” by and with Elena Bucci (produced by Le belle bandiere). Renzo Paris presents the book “Pasolini Moravia” (Einaudi)
Sunday 18 September LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD to Neapolitan actress Marina Confalone.
Among the special events on the magnificent Terrazza degli Aranci, located in the ancient Franciscan Convent of Baronissi, now home to the FRaC Museum: Simona Boo in concert on September 11th during the evening entitled “Donne in musica” and on September 15th Roberto Colella (La Maschera).
Furthermore, within the scope of VISIONNAIRE22, the exhibition “ARMANDO CERZOSIMO – Notes for an iconography of the song” will be set up, starting on Friday 2nd September (at 18.30 pm).
Curated by Massimo Bignardi, director of the Museo-FRaC, the exhibition offers a repertoire of images taken from the archive of photographer Armando Cerzosimo: a repertoire that crosses the places of music, or rather that acts as an imaginative guide to the characters, scenes, and plots of the docufilms projected in the evocative setting of the Terrazza degli aranci.
On display, sixteen large-format photographs trace the traces of a journey through places that stimulate memory, accompanying it, in the space of memories, with the silent harmony of a French melody, the sound of London electrics, the song that rises from the Tagus.
“They are images, observes Prof. Massimo Bignardi Director of the FRaC Museum, that bring back to our mind places that act as a backdrop to the many songs 'crammed' into our memory; true 'soundtracks' of our lives. Cerzosimo has encountered, over the years, the London of the Beatles, Paris with the streets that ascend to Montmartre up to Place du Tertre with the bohemian air of Aznavoir or the long Seine sensing the echo of Piaf's songs. This also applies to the Rome of Moriconi, of Venditti with 'il Cupolone', the Genoa of De André and the singer-songwriters of our generation, or Sicily, Nicosia, Syracuse stopping spaces and figures, as if they were a single place. Furthermore, the rapid descent from Bairro Alto, from Chiado of old Lisbon, chasing the melancholy of 'fado'. Cerzosimo's photography, especially his black and white one, reveals his innate ability to look beyond the dimension of real things, to leave the gaze free to encounter the 'vision', that is to say that union between emotion, the sensation of a sudden encounter and, at the same time, the transport of the memory that memory gives us".
Article published on 30 August 2022 - 11:36
