Valerio Rocco Orlando
08 Nov - 20 Dec 2008
VALERIO ROCCO ORLANDO
"Niendorf (The Damaged Piano)"
8.11.08 »20.12.08
Opening Saturday November 8th, 2008 at 9.00 p.m.
Notte delle Arti Contemporanee - Saturday Night Art Fever
Starting from November 8th, Galleria Maze is proud to present Niendorf (The Damaged Piano), Valerio Rocco Orlando’s second solo show in Turin, curated by Caroline Corbetta.
The exhibition takes it title from the 2-channel video installation called Niendorf (The Damaged Piano) which presents the last film shot by the artist in Berlin in collaboration with the English musician and composer Micheal Nyman.
Niendorf (The Damaged Piano) tells the story of a damaged and forgotten 1920s piano, capable of acid as well as ancestral sounds. When Nyman discovered it in a Berlin restorer’s workshop, he was mesmerized.
Valerio Rocco Orlando was inspired by this event to create a new work linked to his research on the stratification of memories and on the numerous relations between faces, emotions and identities.
Following its premiere last summer at the Teatro Regio in Parma, the project now takes on a distinguishing installation form in which 35 mm black and white movie films interweave with digital aesthetics and the piano’s original sounds.
In another room, the artist recomposes fragments of the video installation into the photo installation Symphony for a Damaged Piano, as if it were a further projection, in which different reflections and tones create a peculiar score. While a small slideshow called My Own Little Damaged Piano and hidden in a corner of the Gallery, shows details of an old toy piano through which the artist approached music for the first time during his childhood.
"Niendorf (The Damaged Piano)"
8.11.08 »20.12.08
Opening Saturday November 8th, 2008 at 9.00 p.m.
Notte delle Arti Contemporanee - Saturday Night Art Fever
Starting from November 8th, Galleria Maze is proud to present Niendorf (The Damaged Piano), Valerio Rocco Orlando’s second solo show in Turin, curated by Caroline Corbetta.
The exhibition takes it title from the 2-channel video installation called Niendorf (The Damaged Piano) which presents the last film shot by the artist in Berlin in collaboration with the English musician and composer Micheal Nyman.
Niendorf (The Damaged Piano) tells the story of a damaged and forgotten 1920s piano, capable of acid as well as ancestral sounds. When Nyman discovered it in a Berlin restorer’s workshop, he was mesmerized.
Valerio Rocco Orlando was inspired by this event to create a new work linked to his research on the stratification of memories and on the numerous relations between faces, emotions and identities.
Following its premiere last summer at the Teatro Regio in Parma, the project now takes on a distinguishing installation form in which 35 mm black and white movie films interweave with digital aesthetics and the piano’s original sounds.
In another room, the artist recomposes fragments of the video installation into the photo installation Symphony for a Damaged Piano, as if it were a further projection, in which different reflections and tones create a peculiar score. While a small slideshow called My Own Little Damaged Piano and hidden in a corner of the Gallery, shows details of an old toy piano through which the artist approached music for the first time during his childhood.