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.
Un Requiem di Meno, Luca De Leva, eyesight swap performance with Giacinta Gandolfo, Monumental Sacristry, Basilica di San Marco, Milan
© Luca De Leva 2015 © artache all right reserved; photo credits: Fabio Mantegna
Un Requiem di Meno, Luca De Leva, eyesight swap performance with Giacinta Gandolfo, Monumental Sacristry, Basilica di San Marco, Milan
© Luca De Leva 2015 © artache all right reserved; photo credits: Fabio Mantegna
Un Requiem di Meno, Luca De Leva, eyesight swap performance with Giacinta Gandolfo, Monumental Sacristry, Basilica di San Marco, Milan
© Luca De Leva 2015 © artache all right reserved; photo credits: Fabio Mantegna
Un Requiem di Meno, Luca De Leva, eyesight swap performance with Giacinta Gandolfo, Monumental Sacristry, Basilica di San Marco, Milan
© Luca De Leva 2015 © artache all right reserved; photo credits: Fabio Mantegna
Un Requiem di Meno,Luca De Leva — Monumental Sacristry, Basilica di San Marco, Milan
© Luca De Leva 2015 © artache all right reserved; photo credits: Fabio Mantegna
Un Requiem di Meno,Luca De Leva — Monumental Sacristry, Basilica di San Marco, Milan
© Luca De Leva 2015 © artache all right reserved; photo credits: Fabio Mantegna
Un Requiem di Meno,Luca De Leva — Monumental Sacristry, Basilica di San Marco, Milan
© Luca De Leva 2015 © artache all right reserved; photo credits: Fabio Mantegna
Un Requiem di Meno, Luca De Leva — Monumental Sacristry, Basilica di San Marco, Milan
© Luca De Leva 2015 © artache all right reserved; photo credits: Fabio Mantegna
Un Requiem di Meno,Luca De Leva — Monumental Sacristry, Basilica di San Marco, Milan
© Luca De Leva 2015 © artache all right reserved; photo credits: Fabio Mantegna
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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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