milan

 

Basilica di san marco

monumental sacristry

22.10 — 4.11- 2015

 

 

Un Requiem

di Meno

 

Luca de leva

 

 

Requiem by Luca De Leva

is an installation composed

of three visible ingredients:

1) a set design of seven busts placed on their plinths on the north side of the Sacristry, opposite 2) a grand piano upon which can be found

an instrument for reproducing sound and, between them,

3) the public, divided between the static spectacle before them and what is happening behind them.

 

 

 

 

with thanks to

 

Monumentali Sacristry

Basilica di San Marco

Milan

 

Don Luigi Garbini

 

Luca De Leva

Giacinta Gandolfo

 

7 busts

Toni Fiorentino

 

Silvia Bergonzi

Marco Bertini

Chiara Fossati

Emilio Giorgi

Stefania Morellato

Rischa Paterlini

Elisa Scorzelli

 

 

The place and the set design have certainly not been chosen by chance: the space is directly connected to the performance of the work by Verdi, whose notes seem still to be present like recollections in the adjacent Basilica

of St Mark; the scenic placement of the busts, on the other hand, cannot but remind one of the famous painting

Meeting of the Academy of Fists by Antonio Perego, which shows several representatives of the Lombard Enlightenment meeting in a Milanese interior in via Monte Napoleone.

 

Again the idea of substitution, of temporary access into the life of another, appears in the very staging of the busts/relics through the exchange of glances: seeing oneself as if in the third person while creating busts, in Requiem

the route for artistic creation is spelled out as a problem of consciousness and the freedom of the creative spirit.

A tangible sign of something ‘intangible’ is the series of vacuum-packed Requiems, scores exposed to the merciless action of water. Luca De Leva does not relinquish them even when he has a shower, the score becoming a clear sign

of the impossibility of the appropriation of the artistic idea, of the process which oversees creation and, vacuum-sealed, the Requiem, since it is a product of the evanescent world of music, is protected from the corrosive action of any sort

of cultural bacteria.

 

photo

Fabio Mantegna

 

video

Emanuele Klemp

 

Lilia Di Bella

 

Miramart

Associazione Culturale

Andrea Fustinoni

 

artache

Graziella Bertolini Stefania Morellato

Gianluca Ranzi

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