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La forma dell’invisibile
multimedia installation by Daniele Spanò
to edited by Isabella Indolfi
we thank Gianluca Marziani, Fondazione Romaeuropa, Seminaria Sogninterra, Marianna Fazzi, Silvia Marsano, Claudia Quintieri
_Pneuma _is a multimedia installation at opera by Daniele Spanò, created in the beautiful setting of the former Church SS Giovanni e Paolo in the heart of medieval Spoleto. Pneuma is a dialogue between sound and wind where, seamlessly, one generates the other and vice versa. In ancient Greek _Pneuma _meant soul, original vital principle, impalpable and invisible, therefore immaterial but also material, as shown by the swelling of a curtain at the breath of the wind. It is the breath of place and history flowing in it; it is the sacred taking plastic form under the voluptuous folds of the curtains; the confrontation of uncertainty and unpredictability, with the all-human need for control and predictability. Here in the former SS Giovanni e Paolo church, which holds important frescoes from the 12th to the 16th century, contemporary artistic intervention activates new visions and generates _un'opera that preserves an ancient spirit, which overflows, like so much painting, beyond the frame and physical space _(Silvia Marsano), until to it becomes living sculpture.
Instruments to wind and drapes give body to the invisible; the careful calibration between the sound wave and the blowing of the wind--implemented thanks to to a specially developed multimedia program--enables the orchestration of Pino Pecorelli's original music. _Pneuma _is the development of a project path that begins with Act I in the Church of the Artists.
to Piazza del Popolo to Rome, where sound and movement were accompanied by the dimension of video. to Spoleto, a further process of synthesis to go beyond the physicality of the image and create not so much an object as an environment, so close to to the natural one, from catapult us into the former church as in a boat ready to to leave.
Opening hours:
from at 10:00 a.m. to at 1:00 p.m. and at 3:00 p.m. to at 6:00 p.m.
After training from set designer, he began work as a director and visual artist. His video installations, commissioned from institutions and individuals, take him to the most beautiful squares in Italy. Among the most important interventions, in 2013 "Atto Primo" to Piazza del Popolo to Rome, "Forgetful" in 2010 in Piazza Bartolomeo Romano, and "Permanent Refractions" in 2011 in Piazza Colonna, also to Rome, promoted by the Presidency of the Council, Ministry of Tourism and MiBAC. In February 2011, she was selected by renowned director and artist Takeshi Kitano to represent the artistic ferment of the city of Rome. Since 2009 she has collaborated as set designer with the Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio, and in 2014 she was assistant director for "Carmen" for the opening of the summer season of the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome." Also in 2014 with Luca Brinchi and Roberta Zanardo he signs the videos for the sets of Andrea Baracco's "Hamlet" and the set design for "Ritratto di una capitale" directed by Fabrizio Arcuri. As a visual artist he exhibits in museums such as The National Gallery of Umbria, Centrale Montemartini in Rome, or MAP in Pontinia, as well as for private individuals and non-profit associations. Since 2012 he has been artistic consultant for the Romaeuropa Foundation. Recent collaborations include Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, Andrea Baracco, Luca Brinchi and Roberta Zanardo (Santasangre), Veronica Cruciani, La casa d'arglilla.