He was my father
a performance by Mauro Maurizio Palumbo
for the Gennaro Vitiello Award 2023
project, dramaturgy and costumes Mauro Maurizio Palumbo
production Ente Teatro Cronaca
It was my father and the winner of the
Gennaro Vitiello Award 2023
After the season preview, the artistic program of Sala Assoli will start on Saturday 14 October at 21.00:15 pm with the show that won the Gennaro Vitiello Award, Era mio padre, by the young performer Mauro Maurizio Palumbo. Accompanied on stage by significant objects, poetic actions, musical evocations, Palumbo gives life to a physical dramaturgy that retraces the stages of human development: from birth to the construction of the relationship with the paternal figure, the acceptance of death and the affirmation of the value of memory. Repeat on Sunday 18.00 October at 10:8 pm. Ticket price: 345 euros (full); 467 euros (reduced). Info and reservations: 9142 XNUMX XNUMX – assoli@casadelcontemporaneo.it
A suspended world hosts actions, sounds, vocalizations and classical music, which trigger the memories of a boy who has become a man, father and husband against his will but who manages to live his condition, redeeming himself from pain, processing mourning and reorganizing a new life. "The intent is to express, on an individual and collective level, needs, desires but also regrets and maladjustments - explains the artist Mauro Maurizio Palumbo. On stage, body paintings create a synergy with the users-spectators that ideally transports them into the work together with the authors-actors. Men of various ages will become that father to whom to say what has not been said".
The result of an intensive workshop for the construction of a visual dramaturgy in dialogue with archaic, classical and contemporary music, based on sounds and vocalizations, which are triggered by physical actions, mnemonic processes, memories and emotions, the project intends to create with the users-spectators a synergy and an intellectual and poetic encounter with the author-actor in the construction of a possible dramaturgy of memory that links the father-son figures.
Palumbo’s artistic research began in 1999 with the study of classical academic drawing and painting and, through experimentation with various languages, arrived in 2010 at performance art. His performative actions concern the study of the body and non-verbal communication, and are created site-specific for the places that host them.
Article published on 11 October 2023 - 11:20
